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Just wanted to make a clear distinction between antisocial and asocial people, since I see there's a serious confusion between both of them.
First of all, let's check what definitions are given for each word: Quote:
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If you've come here because you feel, or you are, unsociable, shy, suffer from social anxiety and similar, and you've got empathy, you don't lack of remorse or guilt, are able of feeling as much emotions as neurotypicals (happiness, sadness/depression, anger and so on), you don't constantly tell lies for your own profit or entertainment, you don't constantly feel boredom and you've got a low self-esteem, you don't fit that much with the antisocial/ASPD or psychopathy criteria. Instead, you could look for Social Anxiety Disorder, depression and similar. Or maybe you simply haven't got a disorder and you're simply shy or bad at being sociable. You should start calling yourself an asocial rather than an antisocial. |
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I don't consider myself to be "antisocial". I'm simply against me being social.
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People such as yourself have tried to make this distinction clear here before. Unfortunately it seems to have little effect, as most who come through here appear to have an apparent allergy to reading.
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However, if people come here because they feel they're unsociable, shy or find it hard to be sociable, they should know they're searching for the word "asocial" rather than "antisocial", and I hope the title explains basically that antisocial and asocial are two different words, if you don't know one word, you would feel interested in knowing what does the other word mean (or if you think both words are synonyms). |
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