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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 626957" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>I was going to mention Sociopath Next Door, it is a really interesting and illuminating read..I suggest it for all of you, as we try to navigate our lives.</p><p></p><p>My son certainly suffers from a social dysfunction..he has no empathy for people, or at least not family, and doesn't understand why we carry grudges when he steals things from us, including important memorabilia. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)/not otherwise specified and ASpergers have both come up as diagnoses for him, but nothing fits particularly well, they are all just handles that may help us better understand or better deal with his behavior, with him. He himself holds no grudges, which is interesting. He has tremendous empathy for animals, and seems to both love and "get" them. </p><p></p><p>He isn't a sociopath, though. Plenty of other unfixable problems, just not that particular one. </p><p></p><p>He told me the other day, as he works rather earnestly on trying to get me to embrace his life choices, that "I know I am not all there. I have accepted that about myself". </p><p></p><p>I think that was open and vulnerable. It just doesn't change the reality we live in.</p><p></p><p>Echo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 626957, member: 17269"] I was going to mention Sociopath Next Door, it is a really interesting and illuminating read..I suggest it for all of you, as we try to navigate our lives. My son certainly suffers from a social dysfunction..he has no empathy for people, or at least not family, and doesn't understand why we carry grudges when he steals things from us, including important memorabilia. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)/not otherwise specified and ASpergers have both come up as diagnoses for him, but nothing fits particularly well, they are all just handles that may help us better understand or better deal with his behavior, with him. He himself holds no grudges, which is interesting. He has tremendous empathy for animals, and seems to both love and "get" them. He isn't a sociopath, though. Plenty of other unfixable problems, just not that particular one. He told me the other day, as he works rather earnestly on trying to get me to embrace his life choices, that "I know I am not all there. I have accepted that about myself". I think that was open and vulnerable. It just doesn't change the reality we live in. Echo [/QUOTE]
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