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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 729365" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I worked in prisons many years. There many psychologists diagnosed ASPD almost automatically by virtue of the fact that they got to prison, right?</p><p></p><p>People get to prison for many reasons, societal, cultural, race, poverty, political, and personal: brain injury, developmental disorders, immaturity, impulse control, drugs, greed, hubris, stupidity, character, psychosis, mood disorders, etc.</p><p></p><p>Nobody denies these people exist, psychopaths. But, I always believed it was dangerous and plain wrong to give a diagnosis just because somebody arrived in a place. I can make a wrong turn and enter a pasture and it does not make me a cow.</p><p></p><p>The same is so for our kids. We come to fear they are irrevocably damaged because of how they treat and respond to us and others, perhaps, which can be stereotypically cruel, violent, angry, manupulative, intractable and inflexible and seemingly without conscience, remorse or regret. I was there too.</p><p></p><p>They have arrived in the cow pasture, and therefore are cows, aka psychopathy or ASPD.</p><p></p><p>When we begin to respond to and treat them like cows what happens is this: communication breaks down even more. We become rigid, stereotypical, defended, angry. We enter the cow pasture with them. Everybody is mooing.</p><p></p><p>We are parents. Do we want to be cows?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 729365, member: 18958"] I worked in prisons many years. There many psychologists diagnosed ASPD almost automatically by virtue of the fact that they got to prison, right? People get to prison for many reasons, societal, cultural, race, poverty, political, and personal: brain injury, developmental disorders, immaturity, impulse control, drugs, greed, hubris, stupidity, character, psychosis, mood disorders, etc. Nobody denies these people exist, psychopaths. But, I always believed it was dangerous and plain wrong to give a diagnosis just because somebody arrived in a place. I can make a wrong turn and enter a pasture and it does not make me a cow. The same is so for our kids. We come to fear they are irrevocably damaged because of how they treat and respond to us and others, perhaps, which can be stereotypically cruel, violent, angry, manupulative, intractable and inflexible and seemingly without conscience, remorse or regret. I was there too. They have arrived in the cow pasture, and therefore are cows, aka psychopathy or ASPD. When we begin to respond to and treat them like cows what happens is this: communication breaks down even more. We become rigid, stereotypical, defended, angry. We enter the cow pasture with them. Everybody is mooing. We are parents. Do we want to be cows? [/QUOTE]
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