Posted on 10/20/2008 10:59:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ironically, depending on who called your brother a “sociopath”, if not a medical diagnosis, it could mean everything from “anti-social”, as in disruptive, or “asocial”, as in not interested in his peers. He might be called a “sociopath” because of AHDH, real or imagined, or Asperger’s syndrome like Bill Gates, a mild form of autism.
But even as a medical term, it is sorely lacking, meaning either psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, dissocial personality disorder, etc. But in this case, its learned or indoctrinated cause has been blurred with its organic cause.
It was late sixties early seventies timeframe and it was a medical diagnosis. ADHD/AHDH hadn’t been invented yet............
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I wonder what Nancy Grace will have about the case tonight.
thanks for posting.
I didn’t realize for years that she was like that, till she came to live with me. Charming, sweet-acting, smooth, manipulative.... unable to hold down a job, always blaming others, going through $ like mad, no conscience about taking money from others and never paying them back... proud of herself for how well she could lie... I had to get her out of there. Drugs, strange men, everything. She has no center and very little conscience.
Wow... I always described my sister as thinking that the rest of us were cardboard cut-outs. Not real.
I know a fellow that would be deemed as a sociopath. He freely admits that he sees most people as things to use for what he wants. The only way that he doesn’t fit the description is that he does care a lot for his family. He will go up against anyone to protect his son or his siblings.
Thought that for months.
Sounds like we know the same type. Your description is very similar.
God bless and keep you, and your son.
Your desription sounds like an ex- best friend I had in high school. Even when she got what she wanted, she still wanted to torment me.
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