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<blockquote data-quote="SeekingStrength" data-source="post: 626907" data-attributes="member: 17635"><p>Bunny,</p><p></p><p>Your post sure hit me in the gut. husband and I believe our difficult child is a sociopath, not based on a "real diagnosis". His sister is a psychological examiner and steered us to reading about the traits. Your post prompted me to Google the differences between sociopath and psychopath and I did not see too many. Lack of empathy, frequent job changes (WHEN he works), parasitic living, etc., etc.---USING people and never caring about the impact on those same people.</p><p></p><p>For somebody of my generation (58yo), i consider myself fairly liberal. When difficult child was 19 (he is 33 now), he was receiving unemployment checks. It flew all over me how a healthy 19yo old would draw unemployment. I knew that was NOT the intended use. I lectured, i was appalled ; guess how much good it did.</p><p></p><p>Please stay close to the board---the collective wisdom & experience will help propel you toward freedom. There is just not much we can do except love/pray.</p><p></p><p>Alas.</p><p></p><p>...and vent, but that is for us</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeekingStrength, post: 626907, member: 17635"] Bunny, Your post sure hit me in the gut. husband and I believe our difficult child is a sociopath, not based on a "real diagnosis". His sister is a psychological examiner and steered us to reading about the traits. Your post prompted me to Google the differences between sociopath and psychopath and I did not see too many. Lack of empathy, frequent job changes (WHEN he works), parasitic living, etc., etc.---USING people and never caring about the impact on those same people. For somebody of my generation (58yo), i consider myself fairly liberal. When difficult child was 19 (he is 33 now), he was receiving unemployment checks. It flew all over me how a healthy 19yo old would draw unemployment. I knew that was NOT the intended use. I lectured, i was appalled ; guess how much good it did. Please stay close to the board---the collective wisdom & experience will help propel you toward freedom. There is just not much we can do except love/pray. Alas. ...and vent, but that is for us [/QUOTE]
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