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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
My mother is in all likelihood a psychopath as well. Interesting that both of our parents are the ASPD/NPD combination.
As far as empathy goes, I've never "felt" it. But I have a lot of "cognitive empathy", so yes I can typically understand someone's situation, but I just don't care. The emotional connection just isn't present for me and never has been. I think that's part of why I'm so objective, it's because I don't emotionally connect so I can sit here and be very understanding but I'll never get caught up in the emotional intensity of it...
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On many lvls I can appreciate the logic of this. My issue is that I have no clue what anyone is doing unless I have a pattern of that behavior in my head. And when I see that pattern I know what they are going to do next, but I have no connection to it personally. Nor do I care either. Kind of like remembering a chess move... but not a game... survival.