It’s terrifying to become intimate with someone like this as you slowly realize there’s a glitch and part of their soul is missing. And they think they are always right, and will never understand what they’re missing in their prefrontal cortex.

But oddly enough their mental defect serves them as a strength & an intimidation factor as they go about life intermixed with neurotypical people, they plow through life unbothered, they win at everything as they remorselessly use & manipulate & plow through everyone in their path.

I wish in some dystopian(?) utopian(?) parallel universe these people would be identified then given a one-way space flight to a different planet where they all would live amongst their own kind. What do you think an entire planet populated ONLY with narcissists, sociopaths, & psychopaths would be like?

Let them all use & manipulate & destroy each other their entire lives while we innocent guileless fairer folks can have our peace restored.

  • dentacle@bookwyr.meEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I actually don’t have questions, because we are almost in the same boat. But I never went to a doctor to get a proper diagnosis. I have that endless empathy, even towards the worst people. I can always see and understand both sides of an argument. Very strong sense for justice and euqality, like you, but on a extremely unhealthy level (I had 2 burnouts). And I don’t have filters like normal people (light, sound, emotions, etc.), but that is probably just high-functioning autism or something like that. I will give my last shirt to you, even if you don’t need it. That’s why we are so prone to be exploited by “normal” people.

    Narcisists and sociopaths are no real danger for me, because I can smell them from 3 miles away. I will bounce as soon as my spider-senses tingle and they will never see or hear from me again.

    And here’s the real burden for me: while most people and psychopaths/sociopaths in particular can’t make an emotional connection to another person, I can almost “feel” every emotion, even in high crowded areas. It is really hard to explain, especially in another language than my own.

    And that’s why I think we are on the other side of a spektrum, but without a label. Maybe HSP (highly sensitiv person), but there’s not much research in that field.