How do you deal with these problems? Have you developed any coping mechanisms?

That's nice to know. I'm glad you could enjoy the thread.

It took me all these hours but I finally get the joke. Bruh.

A common example is Patrick Bateman from 'American Psycho'. From what I've seen Bateman is obsessed with how he's seen by others and is prone to having power fantasies. He seems more NPD to me. I don't really care how I look anymore then any other woman does.

I can care about people. I love and care about people like my friends, siblings, boyfriends and parents. I can feel love but I just can't empathize with them. Even if I didn't care about others I wouldn't gain anything from hurting them the way a sadist would.

A doctor or vet. I always see doctors/vets talking about how hard it is to deal with other peoples emotions. Plus it pays well.

Not really a trick. It's more being rude if anything.

Not really. Having a mental illness doesn't make you a professional on that mental illness anymore then breaking a leg would make you a professional on broken bones.

That we're all serial killers. ASPD isn't going to make you a serial killer more than anyone other personality disorder. Also, that we're all abusers and can't be trusted.

Honestly there isn't that many accurate stereotypes about people with ASPD. It's been so demonised in the media and pop psychology. The Idea people get of ASPD usually comes from sensationalist movies or TV shows.

No, I haven't. It's far too stigmatized to just casually admit something like that. Maybe if they were really close to me.

A vague concept is the best way to put it. I can understand the concepts on a intellectual level but I just don't feel them. Like, I can understand regretting something because it hurt someone else but I don't know how you can feel someone else's pain. It's the same for guilt. ASPD gives you an extremely short time preference. If I make a bad decision once I'm done dealing with the consequences I don't really think about it. The future is in the future so why really care and the past is the past. It's for this reason I don't feel anything for the people involved.

I understand this isn't a good way of thinking about things. I understand I need to improve myself to stop these toxic patterns of thinking. I now make that I not only learn from my mistakes but put what I learnt into practice.

I may not feel empathy or guilt like a normal person but I can learn my short commings and work on them and at the end of the day that's what being a good person is all about.

We've all done bad things. Nobody is perfect. When I was 14 me and two other friends decided to get revenge on a teacher for getting me in trouble the week before. So we decided to trash that teachers car. That same night I dared my friend to drink a cocktail of vodka and cough syrup. She ended up throwing up. In the end I was made to pay the teacher for a new car and got suspended for a week.