while i'm doing threads, let's dive into something i've never really talked about: the main way i think psychopathy works. which afaik is completely at odds with the literature, though i avoid the literature as a train wreck mostly concerned with demonization so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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once you've enacted synapse-pruned neural roadblocks to keep other people's emotional states from yanking you around, of course, you might find that you care about other people's emotional states rather less than they think you should. and they might demonize you for it. oops
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but that's the guts of my working model. i hope you liked it and that it induces you to consider that perhaps our psychopath friends are people operating the way they do because it solves real and serious problems for them, not monsters who were just born bad!
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