Anti-Social Girl

My formerly CDiary, now ASPDiary: The story of a girl with with CD (Conduct Disorder) and ASPD (Anti-Social Personality Disorder/Sociopathy), Let's fight common misconceptions and the demonization perpetuating popular culture. We are not predators or monsters, but, despite the disorder, sentient living humans, capable of emotions, friendship, hopes and dreams, who fight with their internal struggles, just like everyone else. You ever wanted to see ASPD from the lense of the affected person? Accompany Nilly (also known as "Anti-Social-Girl") through different stages of her life. Relevant sources are provided in the science section under the summary of the episodes. Thanks for the support so far. I really appreciate it. If you want to be my friend, follow me here: LINK

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Season 2 Episode 10: Traveling to new worlds

TW: Suicide ideation TW: Religious imagery

We all know that Nilly (around 17) had a rough time recently. Abandoned by her mother and incarcerated as a child, she suffered domestic violance at her new home, failed to form meaningful connections with her peers at school. Grades suffer, dissatisfaction boils over, and life feels like an endless circle of suffering.

When her last few hopes shatter at a school trip, where she learns about what feels like an unrequited friendship, stuck in the past, and no pleasure whatover in an activity which is supposed to be exciting, she decides to ride home. And yes, she does not have a ticket if she does not go with the class - luckily for her, or the ticket insepctor, no one checked on this day - since the calss travled via class ticket. However, during her train ride, she thinks about what happens next, and realizes where is not muhc to luck forward.

Upon that realization, she considers taking one last major decision and to take leaving that suffering behind by ending her life.

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Scientific note:

Suicidal ideation is not talked enough about people with ASPD or Conduct Disorder, albeit there is a higher risk of suicide for them than control groups. Cleckly once wrote that people with psychopathic or anti-social traits would be less likely to commit suicide, but newer findings contradict him.

Not only is Conduct Disorder increasing the risk of suicide during adulthood, but these kids themselves are already at a much higher risk to end their lives prematurely.

Since pwASPD are more likely to be treated in forensic settings than in therapeutic settings, and people seem to care less about the survival of inmates, studies on suicide prevention is less known than compared to other personality disorders.

Reasons for suicide can vary. One which often pops up is taht suicide might be seen as an opportunity to escape once felt trapped. In the case of our Anti-Social-Girl, it is a combination of lack of perspective, ahedonia, and entrapment in sameness, likely to stem from her inability to gain happiness from everyday interactions and social bonds compared to her peers.

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Sources and further reading:

McClelland, H., Cleare, S. & O’Connor, R.C. Suicide Risk in Personality Disorders: A Systematic Review. Curr Psychiatry Rep 25, 405–417 (2023)

Verona, E., Patrick, C. J., & Joiner, T. E. (2001). Psychopathy, antisocial personality, and suicide risk. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110(3), 462–470.

https://childhealthpolicy.ca/mental-disorders-suicide-risk/#:~:text=The%20researchers%20found%20that%20when,than%20those%20without%20these%20problems.

Wei HT, Lan WH, Hsu JW, Bai YM, Huang KL, Su TP, Li CT, Lin WC, Chen TJ, Chen MH. Risk of Suicide Attempt among Adolescents with Conduct Disorder: A Longitudinal Follow-up Study. J Pediatr. 2016

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Spoilers:

Of course this is not the last episode. Those who watch my webseries longer, know that there are episodes beyond her age 17. Consequently, she did not die. I just wanted to be a bit dramatic.

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Season 2 Episode 9: Making New Friends

After her friend Rob moved away, Anti-Social-Girl Nilly (age 15-17) befriended another guy. They shared some interests and overall he appeared to be strong and confident. Smart move to get someone like him on your side is it not?

Well, turns out it is not best for your school performance and when confronted with bad grades, she realizes that at some point in your school career, it is not about power on the school yard, but about the prospect of academic success.

Conduct Disorder is associated with impeded school performance and the social environment may play into this. Luckily, the up-coming discussion of her grades remind her that her future plans and actual future may diverge if she does not chance something. She also gets kinda annoyed by her friend. So, it is time for new friends, which fit her newly gained ambitions!

She looks around and spots a student who looks more to her liking. A bit of a loner, but above average grade and generally kind. The perfect new friend. Now, the question remains: how to get rid of your old friend, get the teacher to give you a better grade, and get to your newly targeted friend?

Easy! Throw your old friend under the bus, so you get off lightly. Blame him for your poor performance, teachers loooove self-reflection and social awareness, as well as being right about their judgement about another student. Who cares about your old friends, especially if they are not listening, right?

Next, you tell your teacher that in order to help you, you need to sit next to the targeted friend. That they barely know you, does not matter, they will make your acquaintance soon! And once you are placed next to them, you act as if it was all the teacher's plan. Neither old nor new friend knows you ever had anything to do with it!

And then, you work with your new friend together to become a good student and check out their notes, homework, and other stuff to copy.

As such, we see how Nilly drops an old friend in exchange for a new one. Ironically, unbeknown to her, she will actually develop some sort of emotional bonding with them, or better an imbalanced desire to be actually liked and admired. This is how she came to meet the "pink haired student" with glasses we saw already in earlier episodes.

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Author's note:

I could not find an explicit scientific source about it, but the idea that people with Conduct Disorder and ASPD, especially if combined with CU traits, are willing to throw their own friends under the bus, if they can save their own, is pretty much common knowledge. It does not always have to be dramatic. It can also be subtle.

I found this surprising when I once watched an interview with a psychopathic gang member, who admitted that he would switch the sides on a gang, if the other side has something better to offer. Because when I checked the comments, a lot of people who felt like they would be psychopathic due to a lack of emotional consideration for others, they felt repulsed by the idea to betray the close circle. To me, it appears that the lack of empathy for the common people is reserved for out-groups, while empathy and loyalty is considered as given, if there is the safety of an inner circle.

The fact that a psychopath may throw this all away seems to be... perplexing to say the least. Also that you may befriend people you may not even like, seems to be unusual. I would not say I am like this today, because at some point, I wanted stable relationships and I had to work hard to get to that point. Also I think that most of my social circle right now is in their social aspect themselves beneficial to me in a way I could not have imagined when I was younger. So thanks to these people for that!

Further reading:

Vitaro F, Tremblay RE, Bukowski WM. Friends, friendships and conduct disorders. In: Hill J, Maughan B, eds. Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence.

Keen DV. Conduct disorders and us: from heart sink to heart warming? Arch Dis Child. 2007 Oct;92(10):838-41.

Miron CD, Satlof-Bedrick E, Waller R. Longitudinal association between callous-unemotional traits and friendship quality among adjudicated adolescents. J Adolesc. 2020 Jun;81:19-26

Martins-Silva T, Bauer A, Matijasevich A, Santos I, Barros A, Ekelund U, Tovo-Rodrigues L, Murray J. Educational performance and conduct problem trajectories from childhood to adolescence: Observational and genetic associations in a Brazilian birth cohort. JCPP Adv. 2022 Oct 17;2(4)

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Season 2 Episode 8: Demon Hunting

Nilly (age 19) decides with her friend Rob (age 18) to explore a graveyard at night. She hopes to find some demons she learned about from her cultural folklore to get famous.

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Scientific note: Sadly, I could not find anything substantial about Conduct Disorder / ASPD and religiousity. So, all I can do is to piece together fragments from available information.

One thing in this episode is surely characteristical for people with conduct disorder. Children with conduct disorder are notorious for exploring an abandoned basement, dark woods, or a graveyard at night.

At her age, even though graveyards may estill voke a feeling of unease, visiting such places are a common test of courage. The concept of monsters and demons also appears to be interpreted differently. Within a religious context God is supposed to inspire awe, admiration, and a sense of moral goodness. The Devil is meant to evoke a sense of moral repulsion, demons are supposed to scare people. All these concepts appeal to the emotional interactions between a social group. It teaches a social group what is good, what is evil, what is permissable, and what is appalling.

Nilly, however, is utterly oblivious to the emotional load of the religious terminology. A demon is not a morally depraved being or a creature to fear. Instead, she treatens the demons of her culture like rare animals, which can be explored, understood, and captured, if they turn out to be real. The graveyard itself, perhaps still a morbid place to be for many, does not even register as a place filled with heavy emotions, but is merely a potential habitat of something she perceives as yet another animal.

Sources:

-Hare & Jutai (1988), 329 -Blair et al. (2006) -https://www.cdc.gov/children-mental-health/about/about-behavior-or-conduct-problems-in-children.html

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Season 2 Episode 7: Fakes and forgeries

Nilly, our little anti-social-girl, around age of 16-19 by now, gets an order from her father: She is instructed to make some forgeries of important documents. Turning her time on the computer into something useful.

Once she accompanies her father to deliver the document, she quickly finds out, she will be the one to be blamed if anything goes wrong. Now she has to make sure everything goes smoothly at the office.

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Scientific Sidenote:

This episode is less about our ASPD-girl Nilly, but about another person manifesting anti-social personality disorder: her father.

While this blog aims at the humanization of pwASPD, showig the conditions, under which a lot of pwASPD may have grown up, is also a great chance to explore untreated and unaware psychopathy.

The emotional deficiency is considered moderately heritable. This means that a disposition for psychopathic emotional affect is more likely to appear when your parents already displayed psychopathic behavior. At the same time, it is not a sufficient condition and warm parenting can counter the disposition.

People who show a psychopathic affective manifestion of ASPD also display pro-social emotional deficits, such as lack of remorse, care for the safety of others, and manipulation. This can result in an instrumental usage of family members. Combined with impulsivity, as it is typical for pwASPD/psychopathy, the children may need to compensate for the parent's mistakes.

As a result a child of psychopathic parents may learn early on that their value as a person depends on utility and efficiency, rather than an inherent value as a person. This then leads to a devaluation of interpersonal emotions on their part.

This is not to say that bad parenting is predetermined. In the end, it is the individual who can learn to work around their symptoms and to live with their disorder or not. If unreflected and untreated, it is less likely that the relationship will be anything but toxic though.

Further readings:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306624X211013517

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34152500/

https://psychcentral.com/disorders/things-sociopathic-parents-hide-behind

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Season 2 Episode 6: Prosecution and apologetics

After a while abroad, Nilly comes home. Her parents often try to call her for all sorts of trivial things, but rarely inform her about letters. This is dire, because important letters often have a strict deadline.

This time, she receives a letter from the prosecutor. Suffering from a pathological inability to mentally time-travel, she does not weight the situation properly on an emotional level, although she feels betrayed by her parents.

Rationally, she can understand that she is in danger. However, until the very moment of the appointment, she is unable to process the peril she is in, and the potential threat of yet another incarceration ahead.

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Scientific note:

A failure to plan ahead is one of the diagnostic criteria for ASPD. Psychopaths, people with a severe form of ASPD, are notorious for an inability for mental time travel; the ability to put your emotions into a past or future state of mind.

Psychopaths can imagine past and future rationally. They can logically state what has happened and what will happen under sepcific circumstances. However, they usually fail to do so emotionally. As a result, a psychopath may understand that they should not perform certain actions, because they may end up in prison, but cannot process the implications emotionally. Such knowledge becomes a purely semantic knowledge without any mental value. Consequently, their ability to consider the consequences of their actions and planning out their navigations through life work only poorly.

They might be able to focus on a short-term goal, which bring quick immediate rewards, but they fail to integrate their actions into the social context of a realistic future plan. As such, it seems that a lot of their actions eventually turn against their own interest, sabotaging themselves or self-defeat.

Because of their inability to mental time travel, it seems that psychopaths do not understand their actions to the fullest. Because of that reason, some scientists and moral philosophers have argued that the actions of psychopaths do not carry the same severity, when compared to healthy control groups.

This is not to say that psychopaths are proposed to bear no moral or legal responsibility at all. Psychopaths do understand what an action is right or wrong, they can still choose to commit an action. However, it seems they can understand only the immediate action, not the context, consequence, or implications of said action. Due to their impaired understanding – including the consequences for themselves and others – it has been proposed that their punishment should be adjusted to their mental capacities.

Further readings:

Vierra, Andrew. (2016). Psychopathy, Mental Time Travel, and Legal Responsibility. Neuroethics. 9.

Levy N. Psychopaths and blame: The argument from content. Philos Psychol. 2014 351-367.

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Season 2 Episode 5: Different degrees of Insanity

In this slice of life episode, Nilly (now 17-19 years old) meets her friend Rob. Everything goes fine and it seems like a pretty normal day until a weird guy shows up at the door.

Rob is probably not an ordinary person either, but he handles a potential threat much more energetic than our anti-social teenage girl. After the incident, she does her best to comfort him, which then leads to discussing their relationship status.

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Scientific Side note:

Psychopathic people with ASPD are said to be able to remain calm in situations others find stressful. There are various theories to why that is. Some suggest this is due to low physiological arousal, others because of an attention deficit in threat detection, yet others, assert it is because of high pain tolerance.

This allows them to find effective long-term solutions even when confronted with a threat or danger. Another theory states that a high dopamine boost, people with ASPD would often experience, would let them focus on the goal - such as avoiding harm or protecting something - rather than engaging with the potential threat, often resolving the conflict more smoothly.

The calmness in stressful situations often appears to be paradoxical in light of the psychopathic impulsivity. The dopamine-theory is promising in sofar that it can unite both phenomena: the dopamine boost creates a tunnel vision, where the psychopathic indidivual perceives only their primary goal, ignoring all environmental cues, positive and negative. As such, they miss out potential threats and other forms of concern, and are left unaffected by distress, while also triggering action before thinking.

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Season 2 Episode 4: Bully the bullies

Nilly, also known as Anti-Soc.-Girl, on her way to school in a winter morning. Depressed and tired, she enjoys the empty school corridors after arriving far too late, which has become a habit at the age of 15-17.

Teachers began to ignore her tardiness, as she would not improve anyways. And since she appears to school eventually, teachers see little reason to cause her anymore trouble than necessary.

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Scientific note:

Kids and teens with conduct disorder are notorious for bullying behavior. Yet, bullying is by far not limited to them. Bullying is usually done by in-group peers to presure out-group individuals and it is quite possible that kids and teens with conduct disorder end up in the receiving end.

How could someone with conduct disorder react to being bullied? This episode is about Nilly reacting when bullies force her to play "Keep away" Even if the odd kids with conduct disorder might become subject to bullying, they often put an end to this by themselves. This in turn may cause more trouble. As social animals, humans naturally value peace in the community.

The escalation of the situation or fueling oil to the fire to end a situation for the individual's favor might be perceived as undue, over the top, or concerning for both people in authority as well as peers.

Truancy is considered a core symptoms of conduct disorder. Although Nilly displays some willingness to go to school eventually, her tardiness is sometimes considered part of the characteristical symptom for a lack of responsibility, defiance or breaking of rules. Further readings:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8521530/#Sec13

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23924-conduct-disorder

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Season 2: Episode 3: Violettes

TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic abuse, blood. ----------------------------------------------------------- Story:

Nilly, also known as Anti-Social-Girl, after leaving her institutionalization - initiated by her mother - behind, begins her new life with a new family. These events occur around age 11-17.

While, as we have seen in the previous episode, her new family is deeply concerned about her behavior , they fear her potential re-institutionalization. Overwhelmed with treating a child suffering from the symptoms of condut disorder, conventional parenting methods hardly work.

Stricter and harsher puishments do not work on children and teens with conduct disorder. They are notoriously bad at learning from punishment cues. Eventually, her upbringing results in domestic abuse, which in turn, worsens her condition. Failing as a good older sister, as a good daughter, and yet another family, and no support or emotional trust and stability in sight, she feels more lonely than ever before.

----------------------------------------------------------- Science and Sources: Even though Callous Unemotional traits (CU traits) can have an early childhood-onset, not more than half will develop ASPD or psychopathy.

A common misconception is that CU traits, such as an unemotional disregard for the emotions of others, are a predictor for psychopathy. In truth, ASPD and psychopathy (a severe form of ASPD) do not develop without traumatic experiences.

Whereas emotional neglect furthers mostly factor 1 traits (the affective, manipulative, and emotional component; matching with NPD), unstable family relationships and domestic violance, as well as poverty increase factor 2 traits (impulsivity, lack of planning; matching with ASPD). In case of psychopathy, these two factors increase another over time. The emotional component leads to impulsive behavior, which in turn gets you into trouble, and leads to an increase in factor 1 traits.

This vicious circle can be interrupted at anytime by a healthy, trusting, and loving environment. This is hard to swallow due to the implication that ASPD and psychopathy are indeed made. For the affected person, it is hard because they realize, under different circumstanes, they could have been healthy. For the people around them (and society as a whole), they cannot blame mother nature, but must admit their own educational failures.

In other terms, psychopathy and ASPD cannot develop without abuse. Because of that, I decided to publish this episode. At first, I wanted to keep my episodes mostly cartoonish and treat symptoms mostly as little but of dark-humor. And I tried my best to do so in this episode, but I think I simply cannot comply to this expectation.

Alternatively, I could skip that curcial part of ASPD, but then I would fail to do the educational purpose I still comit to on my webseries. As a result, our poor little girl has to go through several stages of abuse, both emotionally, verbally, and physically.

At the same time, I do not want to sugarcoat her own mental-shortcomings. She often acts impulsive, puts her little brother into danger, and misses distress cues, which leads to his own injuries. At the same time, she is unable to learn from her mistakes, even if she gets severly punished, another key characteristic for those who are at risk of developing a psychopathic personality disorder. Sources: Struggle with identifying fear in others: https://www.psypost.org/lack-fear-harbringer-future-psychopaths/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3086821/#abstract1 Inability to learn from punishment and past mistakes: https://news.yale.edu/2016/11/28/psychopaths-can-regret-bad-decisions-don-t-learn-them

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Season 2: Episode 2: Punishment Executed

Anti-Soc.-Girl at school after her transfer to her father's family. Now around 14 years old, she gets verbally attacked by a guy at school.

What does a decent girl at that age do if she gets harassed? Telling teachers? Insulting back? Go into a corner and cry? Of course not! She straightup fights that guy to force him to shut up!

This episode is a great example for highlighting the difference between "reactive aggression" and "instrumental aggression". While what most people think of aggression is usually "reactive aggression", pwASPD, especially among those with Callous Unemotional traits, often rather exhibit "instrumental aggression".

The former is a typical violent outburst, caused by external stimulation, such as perceived threats, provocation, or frustration. It is uncontrolled and unplanned, a spontaneous reaction and caused through an erroneous perception of hostility among others.

The latter is characterized by utility. It does not mean that no emotions are involved, but the aggression serves an outcome. It is often much calmer and less noisy, as it does not focus on warding off a threat or to intimidate others, but on achieving a desired goal; the harm on others being a means to achieve it.

The scientific definition is that in "reactive aggression", the aggression itself is the goal. In "instrumental aggresion", the goal is something else and aggression a tool to achieve it. You can always asked yourself: Did you act like this because of something or to achieve something? _____________________________________ Spoilers:

Anti-Sociol-Girl, in this case, exhibits instrumental aggression. If she had attacked the guy directly upon the insult, it would be considered reactive. Since she came back at him, after the situation was dissolved, and decided to hurt him for the purpose of restoring her status and punishing the guy for humiliating her, her attacks serve a purpose. She planned attacking him in order to achieve something.

One could argue that her plan was still emotionally charged, as the guy left the situation before she could react, however, given the time between two school breaks, one can expect her to have calmed down in between and found one way or the other to emotionally process what happened. But rather than doing that, she waited and planned an act of revenge. As such, this is a typical form of "instrumental aggression".

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Season 2: Episode 1: Boat Trip Anti-Social-Girl is on a little boat-trip. Everything seems normal. What could go wrong, right? For our little 14 year old  – still conduct disordered  – girl, everything can turn into a competition, even though it is not well-thought. With a friend like that, relaxing is far too boring to be an option and even cozy boating turns into an adventure! There is nothing clinially sociopathic, but yet, there might be some anti-social traits shining through. Which one did you notice?

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Did you ever wanted to learn something about Anti-Social Personality Disorder or Conduct Disorder from the perspective of the affected person? Or simply learn how others navigate their life with Anti-Social Personality Disorder/Conduct Disorder: Follow her ASPDiary! All animations within the diary are based on real stories of someone with Conduct Disorder or ASPD.

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ASPD-Girl's CDiary SEASON 1 (part 3):

This is the entire (third part) of the 1st season of the CDiary, an animation about a girl with Conduct Disorder (CD) and later Anti-Social-Personality-Disorder (ASPD).

The first season introduces us to ASPD-Girl, her overall personality, and her relationship with her teachers, parents, friends, and peers, whereby exposing the overall attitude and anti-social behaviour of someone with conduct disorder. While exploring her overall relationship with other important figures and her little delinquencies, the season mainly focuses on her incarceration arc.

Another season is in the making and while exploring more shenanigans it will focus more about on her emotional state and provide insights into the mind of our anti-social protagonist, the author of this diary. So stay tuned and follow my blog for more ASPD-related awareness content in the future!

Disclaimer: Sadly Tumblr only allows up to 10 minutes. So I had to split it again.)

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ASPD-Girl's CDiary SEASON 1 (part 2):

This is the entire 1st season of the CDiary, an animation about a girl with Conduct Disorder (CD) and later Anti-Social-Personality-Disorder (ASPD).

The first season introduces us to ASPD-Girl, her overall personality, and her relationship with her teachers, parents, friends, and peers, whereby exposing the overall attitude and anti-social behaviour of someone with conduct disorder. While exploring her overall relationship with other important figures and her little delinquencies, the season mainly focuses on her incarceration arc.

Another season is in the making and while exploring more shenanigans it will focus more about on her emotional state and provide insights into the mind of our anti-social protagonist, the author of this diary. So stay tuned and follow my blog for more ASPD-related awareness content in the future!

Disclaimer: Sadly Tumblr only allows up to 10 minutes. So I had to split it into 3 parts still)

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ASPD-Girl's CDiary SEASON 1:

This is the first part of the 1st season of the CDiary, an animation about a girl with Conduct Disorder (CD) and later Anti-Social-Personality-Disorder (ASPD).

The first season introduces us to ASPD-Girl, her overall personality, and her relationship with her teachers, parents, friends, and peers, whereby exposing the overall attitude and anti-social behaviour of someone with conduct disorder. While exploring her overall relationship with other important figures and her little delinquencies, the season mainly focuses on her incarceration arc.

Another season is in the making and while exploring more shenanigans it will focus more about on her emotional state and provide insights into the mind of our anti-social protagonist, the author of this diary. So stay tuned and follow my blog for more ASPD-related awareness content in the future! Disclaimer: Sadly Tumblr only allows up to 10 minutes. So I had to split ti again. But I hope the lenghty episodes still add more joy

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Episode: 13 Season Finale: Prison Escape ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our little girl finally leaves her imprisonment behind and moves to her father. This sets the start of a new life and as such, this will also mark the end of the first season.

I plan on doing more animations and an additional season. Actually, animations are already prepared. While the 1st season focused on her incarceration, her overall personality, and introduced some key characters in her early life, the next season shal focus more on her emotional development, her feelings, and ambitions, while also exploring some more of her shenanigans. Perhaps there will be some flashbacks to her childhood too.

In order to secure her safetly, she moves to her father, but there is of course yet another challange. Once one parent betrayed you, how do you ensure the other one will not? Clever manipulation tactics shall ensure she can handle the situation.

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Children those parents display anti-social behavior or even meet the ASDP criteria are more likely to develope ASPD themselves. other contributors include parental conflicts and lack of emotional warmth and social structure.

A lack of parental security in turn shapes a more egocentric personality which in turn increases a disregard for the well-being of others.

As with adult people who meet the criteria for ASPD, kids with Conduct Disorder may already display manioulative behavior and deceive others in order to gain advantages.

Further readings:

https://seattleanxiety.com//conduct-disorder-cd#:~:text=Those%20with%20CD%20are%20often,violations%20and%20aggressions.%5B10%5D

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23924-conduct-disorder

https://childmind.org/article/what-is-conduct-disorder/

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Episode 12: Attack on Teachers

Back to Anti-Social-Girl's time in elementary school, we get to see another violent outburst, which may have been reason for her first institutionalization, we saw in the other episodes.

The episode is characteristic for recurring behavioural patterns at school, not a one time thing, although some extreme events are highlighted here.

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Scientific Note: Conduct Disorder is characterized by persistent defiance and violant outbursts. With the additional quantifier CU-traits (Callous unemotional traits), children and teenagers with conduct disorder also display an array of emotional deficiencies, which are often considered to be the cause of their disruptive social behavior.

The lack of pro-social emotions, a disregard for participating as a member of society as it is common for most kids their age, may manifest in shallow emotions affect or the ability to turn their emotions on/off and appear dishonest and inconsistent with their actions. They show a disregard for the feelings of others, even though their Theory of Mind - their understanding of the perspective of others - is intact, which also manifests in a lack of remorse for doing something wrong, except they need to express an apology when caught. Also note the previous point on that matter.

Since they cannot appreciate social approval, they rarely care for school performance, or punishment cues. However, it has been shown that they can be motivated by perspective of reward.

While Conduct Disorder, especially when appearing with Callous Unemotional traits, has a moderate to strong heritability (around 60%), social factors contribute to the lack of development of pro-social emotions, such as parental separation, interparental violance, living in a stressful living environment, stressful family situations, drug addiction in family, poverty, lack of friends, loneliness, deficits in social skills, poor risk assessment, and enjoyment of fights, wandering, and other exciting stuff.

But hopes are not lost! In order to treat Conduct Disorder, it is recommanded to employ contingency programs, which works out the individual goals, such as achieving a doctor title - which is very cool - shaped around the interest of the kid.

Teaching problem solving steps in order to mange anger. Rather than punching someone who wrongs you into the face, teach them how to call the police, and sue them at court. Sweet revenge without making your hands dirty!

Also important, teach parents, teachers, and their peers about the disorder, so they can be better integrated into social groups and get the benefits of being pro-social and perhaps eventually developing pro-social emotions!

Sources:

-Seattle Anxiety Specialists on seattleanxiety. com (Conduct Disorder) - DSM-5 Limited Prosocial Emotions Specifier for Conduct Disorder: Comorbid Problems, Prognosis, and Antecedents (2021)

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Episode 11: Bad Bondage Bed

TRIGGER WARNING: Bondage and restrain

Back to the age of 10, we witness one of the darker sides of institutionalization. Although only used under exceptional circumstances, the thought of such forms of punishment, would make any sane person think twice about any further transgressions.

However, we are not sane here. Even though our anti-soc-girl managed to keep her cool to feign sanity in the institution, she knows well that one of the reasons she was brought here are indeed problems with aggressive outbursts, as we have seen in one of the previous episodes.

As such, fear for such consequences are justified. It is particularly terrifying considering that they can occur impulsive without much feeling of control. Also, she already planned an escape, not covered in any episode yet, where she would need to resort to violance. The encounter in this animation, greatly increased the stakes of such an action.