(looking forward to some psychological professionals popping in to tell me i'm full of shit, with an outside chance of also telling me that everything i have to say is obviously cribbed from some obscure but well-established corner of that literature i've been dodging)
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the reason i'm motivated to try to understand psychopaths in a non-demonizing way, incidentally, is that on balance i like and enjoy them, thinking that they should get to have good lives and that the rest of us have valuable things to learn from them
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so: where i think a psychopath starts is as someone whose primary neurodivergence is that their mirror neurons work *extremely well*. like, Olympic well. so well that they experience other people's emotional states overwhelmingly, yanking them around like a collar and leash
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often i think about of differently sourced psychopaths: meaning that it is possible to have autist/asperger psychopath, schizophrenic ones, schizoid ones, borderline ones and so on, depending where the dimming of control and agressiveness come from
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it is possible that excess lead to negation: the case of previous drug addicts that become abatemious, the excess emotionality leading to the culling of the same excess in others, it is really to pinpoint the unitary trait for psychos like this
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yeah, definitely other factors could divert the trajectory elsewhere or make a result recognizable as psychopathy more likely
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