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I don't know what I am doing...is it right?
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 442680"><p>I have lately found this kind of fascinating: all of the primary conduct/personality disorders emphasize misconduct issues as their primary traits (i.e., ODD = defiance, CD = criminality/violating the rights of others, ASPD = amorality & remorselessness), but all of them have, as a secondary but invariable feature, absolutely bottomless laziness. I have wondered at times if this shouldn't be regarded not as a secondary "oh, there's also this" kind of feature but rather as a central, almost definitive feature. difficult children--every last one of them--seem to be almost peculiarly, pathologically lazy. What's up with that? </p><p></p><p>Neuroscience has pretty much identified the source of the amorality & remorselessness & lack of empathy in the primary conduct disorders: it's the under-functioning of the so-called "empathy circuit" between the amygdala and the neocortex, which malfunction disables the capacity to learn from experience, the development of a moral faculty and thus a conscience, the ability to love, and so on. But this pervasive, invariable gross laziness--again, what's up with that? Where does it come from? Its absolute regularity among difficult children is very striking--they seem to completely lack the faculty of willpower, of being able to summon the will and drive to get even the simplest tasks done. My nephew difficult child would rather sleep under an overpass then get a job. I just don't get it--it seems pathological rather than "chosen." Your thoughts/ideas on this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 442680"] I have lately found this kind of fascinating: all of the primary conduct/personality disorders emphasize misconduct issues as their primary traits (i.e., ODD = defiance, CD = criminality/violating the rights of others, ASPD = amorality & remorselessness), but all of them have, as a secondary but invariable feature, absolutely bottomless laziness. I have wondered at times if this shouldn't be regarded not as a secondary "oh, there's also this" kind of feature but rather as a central, almost definitive feature. difficult children--every last one of them--seem to be almost peculiarly, pathologically lazy. What's up with that? Neuroscience has pretty much identified the source of the amorality & remorselessness & lack of empathy in the primary conduct disorders: it's the under-functioning of the so-called "empathy circuit" between the amygdala and the neocortex, which malfunction disables the capacity to learn from experience, the development of a moral faculty and thus a conscience, the ability to love, and so on. But this pervasive, invariable gross laziness--again, what's up with that? Where does it come from? Its absolute regularity among difficult children is very striking--they seem to completely lack the faculty of willpower, of being able to summon the will and drive to get even the simplest tasks done. My nephew difficult child would rather sleep under an overpass then get a job. I just don't get it--it seems pathological rather than "chosen." Your thoughts/ideas on this? [/QUOTE]
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