#aspd stigma

[maive-the-sheep]

As someone officially diagnosed with aspd.

I don't get the problem people have with self diagnosers.

Aspd on record means if go to jail get a worse sentence.

Aspd on record means many therapist in their ableism will refuse to help with any problem.

I knew i had no guilt or shame or affective empathy or feelings of compassion from earliest memories. I didn't suddenly lose those feelings when i got diagnosed.

And there is genetic evidence for aspd.

And there are psychologists that view it more like a neurodevelopmental disorder.

"Well the dsm 5"...was written by people who used studies only on prisoners for their results so it became more action focused over internal as a way to reinforce the prisoner claim.

And it's a work in progress authority...that you are blindly obeying and believing? Now that's a trait that doesn't fit aspd.

Reflect on actual symptoms like problems with boredom. Lower, missing, or weirdly selective care for feelings of compassion, affective empathy, guilt, shame, care. Things viewed differently for you then norm. Urges. Response to things. Having rules need to be explained to make sense and not just accepted in their own right. Etc.

Knowing a spectrum and if fit enough, fit enough.

And then if fit do the best to use how different for best way forward. Like i use my selfishness for long term prisoners dilema as a motivation for me to do good. I turned my high anger into motivation. I found beauty in various things as an alleviation for boredom. Etc.

Tl;dr those "with aspd" trying to fake claim others cause no official diagnoses...are the ones most likely to not have aspd.

[cemitadepollo]

Not a day passes by without me being mad as shit that ableism against demonized mental illnesses is normalised.

We are not criminals. We are not dangerous. We do not owe neurotypicals a complete explanation on why we developed our disorders and why we aren't serial killers that kidnap people.

Fuck hollywood, fuck ableist criminology and fuck saneism.

[canarybridge]

"i support mental health but THAT mental health disorder? i just simply can't" if you ever find yourself saying this just know you're the issue

[bpdmaxxer]

[openmindpsych]

stigmatized disorders should come with free hammers to use to beat up people who try to insist that you don't have that disorder because you're not an irredeemable monster

[ethereal-w0lf]

Basically what I learned in therapy the other day

[actually-aspd-culture]

I was generally curious to know what do you think are some misconceptions about psychopaths/sociopaths and ASPD in general.

Myths, misconceptions and generalizations about ASPD: 1. We're all incapable of feeling guilt, remorse, or shame. While some of us may feel that way, the majority of us still have the capacity to potentially feel these things. Most of us are simply emotionally detached and thus have a harder time identifying these emotions within ourselves. That does not mean they are entirely absent. A lack of awareness of ones emotions does not equal a total absence of them.

2. It's very easy to identify us. Your average antisocial person masks in order to survive in society. It can be quite difficult to correctly identify some of us. There are many cases in which you may never know someone has it unless they directly disclose it to you. 3. We are all abusive. Some of us may behave in these ways as a result of having abusive behavior normalized to us during our upbringing. With that being said, abusive behavior is not an essential lifelong cornerstone of our existence. We can learn, grow, and do better like any other person. We must hold ourselves accountable for our own actions regardless of what disorders we may have. 4. We're aggressive or violent all of the time. I won't pretend like there is no link between ASPD and unhealthy expressions of anger, but that doesn't mean it has to define us. It's entirely possible for someone with this condition to work on healthier modes of self-expression. 5. We're incapable of prosocial emotions or behaviors, especially love and caring for others.

We are capable of experiencing a much wider range of emotions than people may realize. Many of us are able to successfully maintain long-term interpersonal relationships despite some of the difficulties we may face in connecting with others.

6. None of us want help, know we need help, or choose to go to therapy willingly of our own accord. Developmental trauma can normalize a lot of unsavory trains of thought for people. This may make it harder to identify when a behavior is unhealthy. That doesn't mean we're all incapable of knowing something is "off" about us. We may not always know how to help ourselves initially, but that is not necessarily for a lack of trying. 7. We're evil. ASPD is caused by a mixture of genetics and childhood trauma. No one is born "bad" or "evil". There is always a deeper reason for a person's behavior.

[msuiclovr]

*clicks on an interesting drama video* ”this person is a psychopath/sociopath/psychotic/narcissist/delusional!”

*sighs*

*clicks off the video*