Inspired by cluster-b-culture-is
Asks/submissions/anon/not anon are all ok!
Confessional/personal/questions/vent/violent thoughts are all ok.
Stigma free zone, ableists go bother someone who gaf.
TW, likely will flare ASPD symptoms!
Hi all, welcome to ASPD-Culture. You can find the DSM-V TR's diagnostic criteria for ASPD at the bottom of this post.
Here's how it works! You can use asks or submissions (on or off anon, asks allow for anon while submissions don't for those who don't know), to submit things you either are struggling with as someone with ASPD, or that you think others with ASPD would find relatable. These can be serious, meme-y, or somewhere in-between. It's ok if it applies to other disorders too, as long as it relates to antisocial personality disorder/the symptoms and associated traits of ASPD.
Send as many ask you like, I am not afraid of a full inbox. Do not feel like you're bugging me; I thrive on the attention and validation of the inbox full of asks. 😈
I welcome questions, vents, confessions, and personal submissions as well as more general ones! I cannot accept anything that would cause anyone legal trouble to say anonymously or otherwise, and please no names unless they are fictional/celebrities; you can use the first letter if you want tho!
Please note that fakeclaiming/ableism against "edgy teens" is not welcome here. This blog is pro well-researched self dx, and is not interested in guessing who may/may not be faking. Submissions will be taken in the good-faith assumption that you are being legitimate.
That said, ableist submissions will be removed and not posted. Waste your time if you want, *shrug*. Also, this blog is not the place for nt people or people with other disorders to complain about ASPD, though they *are* welcome to submit questions/asks in good faith as long as you aren't complaining about pwASPD or intentionally being ableist. If you aren't sure if something is ableist, you're welcome to ask my opinion on that, though I'm only one pwASPD so I'm not an authority. People with ASPD are welcome to vent frustrations about their own disorder, as well as how having ASPD may cause conflict with others with this/other disorders and/or frustrations about dealing with pwoASPD as someone who has it. We have to mask our frustrations with prosocials everywhere else in life - please feel free to be open about them here. Prosocials please try not to feel attacked by these, they're just vents likely being used to make sure we don't say anything hurtful irl.
Being that ASPD can have violent thoughts as a symptom, non-targetted posts about violent thoughts are ok, and will be posted with appropriate tws. If I miss any tw, please let me know and I will add it asap. Because of this, you don't need to add tws in the submissions unless you want to. That said, please be aware of the type of text-based content you may see on this blog. It's ok to block, unfollow, etc if you need to. Words like ps**hopath and soc**path may or may not be censored, but they will be tw tagged (tw ableist language & cw ableist language), so if you reclaim those terms that's ok, but be aware I will tw them.
I think that about sums it up! Ask/submit away!
A quick shoutout - I was inspired by @cluster-b-culture-is because I love their content, but I found myself wishing there was one just for ASPD especially with the recent rise of acceptance for BPD but not the other cluster b's (to be clear tho, cluster-b-culture-is does not support stigma against any sort of elitism within the community, and is a great blog that you should follow if you like their content!).
Edit: Here is the diagnostic criteria for ASPD as of the most current DSM (DSM-V TR), quoted directly. Please note there are diagnostic features, development "criteria" (things that cause the disorder to develop), and presentation/associated features to think about as well. You cannot diagnose solely off of having 3/7 of the following criteria, but 3/7 is all you need in combination with meeting the other stuff to have ASPD. This should help steer away ableist additions that people constantly try to make to the criteria.
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Hi all, welcome to ASPD-Culture. You can find the DSM-V TR's diagnostic criteria for ASPD at the bottom of this post.
Here's how it works! You can use asks or submissions (on or off anon, asks allow for anon while submissions don't for those who don't know), to submit things you either are struggling with as someone with ASPD, or that you think others with ASPD would find relatable. These can be serious, meme-y, or somewhere in-between. It's ok if it applies to other disorders too, as long as it relates to antisocial personality disorder/the symptoms and associated traits of ASPD.
Send as many ask you like, I am not afraid of a full inbox. Do not feel like you're bugging me; I thrive on the attention and validation of the inbox full of asks. [Smiling devil face emoji]
I welcome questions, vents, confessions, and personal submissions as well as more general ones! I cannot accept anything that would cause anyone legal trouble to say anonymously or otherwise, and please no names unless they are fictional/celebrities; you can use the first letter if you want tho!
Please note that fakeclaiming/ableism against "edgy teens" is not welcome here. This blog is pro well-researched self dx, and is not interested in guessing who may/may not be faking. Submissions will be taken in the good-faith assumption that you are being legitimate.
That said, ableist submissions will be removed and not posted. Waste your time if you want, *shrug*. Also, this blog is not the place for nt people or people with other disorders to complain about ASPD, though they *are* welcome to submit questions/asks in good faith as long as you aren't complaining about pwASPD or intentionally being ableist. If you aren't sure if something is ableist, you're welcome to ask my opinion on that, though I'm only one pwASPD so I'm not an authority. People with ASPD are welcome to vent frustrations about their own disorder, as well as how having ASPD may cause conflict with others with this/other disorders and/or frustrations about dealing with pwoASPD as someone who has it. We have to mask our frustrations with prosocials everywhere else in life - please feel free to be open about them here. Prosocials please try not to feel attacked by these, they're just vents likely being used to make sure we don't say anything hurtful irl.
Being that ASPD can have violent thoughts as a symptom, non-targetted posts about violent thoughts are ok, and will be posted with appropriate tws. If I miss any tw, please let me know and I will add it asap. Because of this, you don't need to add tws in the submissions unless you want to. That said, please be aware of the type of text-based content you may see on this blog. It's ok to block, unfollow, etc if you need to. Words like ps**hopath and soc**path may or may not be censored, but they will be tw tagged (tw ableist language and cw ableist language), so if you reclaim those terms that's ok, but be aware I will tw them.
I think that about sums it up! Ask/submit away!
A quick shoutout - I was inspired by cluster-b-culture-is because I love their content, but I found myself wishing there was one just for ASPD especially with the recent rise of acceptance for BPD but not the other cluster b's (to be clear tho, cluster-b-culture-is does not support stigma against any sort of elitism within the community, and is a great blog that you should follow if you like their content!).
Edit: Here is the diagnostic criteria for ASPD as of the most current DSM (DSM-V TR), quoted directly. Please note there are diagnostic features, development "criteria" (things that cause the disorder to develop), and presentation/associated features to think about as well. You cannot diagnose solely off of having 3/7 of the following criteria, but 3/7 is all you need in combination with meeting the other stuff to have ASPD. This should help steer away ableist additions that people constantly try to make to the criteria.
[Transcription of the image included] A screenshot of the Diagnostic Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (code F60.2) quoted directly out of the DSM-V TR.
Criterion A.) A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occuring since age 15 years as indicated by 3 (or more) of the following.
Subcriterion 1.) Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
Subcriterion 2.) Deceitulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
Subcriterion 3.) Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
Subcriterion 4.) Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights and assaults.
Subcriterion 5.) Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
Subcriterion 6.) Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
Subcriterion 7.) Lack of remors, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
Criterion B.) The individual is at least age 18 years.
Criterion C.) There is evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years.
Criterion D.) The occurrence of antisocial behavior is not exclusively during the course of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. [End transcription of image]
Finally got the spoons to post this, I’m sorry it didn’t come sooner.
I have been hit with wave after wave of life issues: new medical problems popping up to where it suddenly hurts badly for me to walk and my legs shake so much I fall all without any known cause, a relative developing dementia, extreme insecurity about where I’ll be living in a month going back and forth by the minute, and sadly that’s just a couple examples of the problems happening.
I’m getting close to a crisis point with my mental health from dealing with all of that which my medical providers know about and are working with me to balance. Nothing to worry about, I’m safe bc I have them helping, but that’s still there.
I’m sorry; I was not expecting any of this and it just keeps coming. At the moment I am not functional enough to write much of anything, let alone provide information or advice.
I’m unsure if I’ll be able to come back any time soon mostly due to focus on my mental and physical health, but please know this blog is a priority for me that I am actively keeping in mind as I try and find coping mechanisms for all of this. This blog is actively in my thoughts daily as something I want to do but just don’t have the spoons nor ability to think clearly.
As soon as I’m able, I’ll come back. I just don’t know how long that’ll take.
Saw someone in the box using an emoji sign off and I’ve seen some other blogs use that feature so I have added a section for claimed signoffs in the pinned post. Single emoji or multiple I don’t mind/gen
ASPD traits culture is being pleasantly surprised when you find a friend that's actually willing to indulge your little curiosities because you don't have empathy, they have a Fuckton of empathy, but you're both curious about what the other was like.
First time I've described legitimately not caring about someone as a person, to their face, and not had them get mad.
If it didn't literally just happen I would think myself a liar. Which I am but not in this context. There's no benefit to me.
ASPD culture is stalking your old managers' Facebooks to verbally assault them in their DMs just to feel something, and because they had it coming for talking down on you, and treating you like you're beneath them, even though you're always the one who has the last laugh, and then feeling like you want to shoot yourself when you exit social media just because the boredom and anger sets in, and you can't have a conventional job, because you see bosses as the parasites that they are.
ASPD culture is hanging out with friends and realizing they expect things of you now that you’re friends and going, oh man, I am in it deep.
How did I end up here
aspd-culture-is
Fvckkkk I feel this so much. I’ve been talking to my therapist recently about how I have a history of wishing I’d never talked to anyone and that I could just lock myself away like I used to before I let people in. It’s hard, but I think it’s still worth it for a couple people. I’d be no one going nowhere without my best friend.
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Fvckkkk I feel this so much. I’ve been talking to my therapist recently about how I have a history of wishing I’d never talked to anyone and that I could just lock myself away like I used to before I let people in. It’s hard, but I think it’s still worth it for a couple people. I’d be no one going nowhere without my best friend.
aspd culture is people think of us as apathetic children who never cry isolated from the rest of the world because we’re different, when as a child i often cried and never felt accepted because i was mistreated when i was just trying to exist (i just stopped giving a fuck lol)
aspd-culture-is
Yeah, honestly they don’t seem to realize we can’t be diagnosed under 18 for a reason. We didn’t have ASPD under 18. It wasn’t set yet. We were just kids slowly developing into someone entirely different from everyone we know and being treated like crap while we do, pushing the process along even faster. That’s scary and traumatizing and they act like we were monsters even as kids. Their ableism knows no bounds and it’s really gross.
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Yeah, honestly they don’t seem to realize we can’t be diagnosed under 18 for a reason. We didn’t have ASPD under 18. It wasn’t set yet. We were just kids slowly developing into someone entirely different from everyone we know and being treated like crap while we do, pushing the process along even faster. That’s scary and traumatizing and they act like we were monsters even as kids. Their ableism knows no bounds and it’s really gross.
Aspd culture is having aspd and autism and learning how to mask really early, enough so that your overt symptoms could be blamed on autism, and that now that you've done research and figured it ou, you can't seek for a diagnosis because the diagnostic criteria for your country is that people over the age of 18 cannot be diagnosed with ASPD
Wait, genuinely what country has that weird rule?/genq Generally ASPD can’t be diagnosed under 18.
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Wait, genuinely what country has that weird rule?/genq Generally ASPD can’t be diagnosed under 18.
ASPD culture is the hatred and rage whenever someone asks you to smile.
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My favorite thing to do (if it’s a stranger or jokingly with my friend) is go full flat affect. Make their skin crawl until they regret both asking me to do that and also being born.
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My favorite thing to do (if it’s a stranger or jokingly with my friend) is go full flat affect. Make their skin crawl until they regret both asking me to do that and also being born.
aspd culture with memory issues is overclocking your brain trying to think of a way to politely say "i don't care about this situation" to a friend to the point you give yourself a headache, giving up because you'll look like an asshole whether you do or don't say something, then finally remembering flat affect and using that to explain
and then giving an "i don't care" anyway because they asked you a follow-up question that got on your nerves even more.
Aspd culture is any time you actually feel something other than boredom, anger/annoyance or apathy you just get a random pang in your chest for a second. Like thanks, what the fuck does this mean
aspd-culture-is
I unfortunately think that pang in your chest is how prosocials feel strong emotion. I hate it and it makes me feel like I’m either having a heart attack or am gonna get sick.
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I unfortunately think that pang in your chest is how prosocials feel strong emotion. I hate it and it makes me feel like I’m either having a heart attack or am gonna get sick.
