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You have these two definitions reversed. Sociopaths are often very successful in business because their inability to feel empathy and lack of remorse allows them to manipulate people or situations to any end that leads them to the top. That is not to say all successful business leaders are sociopathic, but a great deal of them are.
I once dated a girl who fit this definition exactly. She made up fantastical lies about herself and eventually told me she suffered from inoperable brain cancer when she thought I was seeing someone else. I would classify her a sociopath as she fit all the classic signs, however she was living proof that sociopaths are not always excessively intelligent. I was told after i cut her loose that she once jacked her brothers car while he was sleeping, drove across town where she was involved in an accident with a parked vehicle. She then proceeded to drive back home, park her brother's wrecked car on the driveway and went back to bed like nothing happened.
What a whackjob. lol
Sounds like HPD Histrionic Personality Disorder Some of them get really scary, a friend of my son dated a woman who had symptoms of it and when he tried to break up with her it got very ugly, he called it "fatal attraction disorder"
I was going to say it sounds like the OP has Schizoid, then I read his comment saying that is his diagnosis.
@OP, I find SPD to be an intriguing disorder btw. I wish I was self-reliant enough to not need anybody else's approval. I envy SPD for that.
I don't think this is something that just happened, I think this was a product of my upbringing..i was a child of the 50s and 60s....things were different then, so much has changed and it seems I haven't kept up with the changes or taken them on board so i'm still acting and behaving as I always did.
i'm wondering if someone can be a sociopath/psychopath, yet not be a criminal?
They're not the same thing. A psychopath has less regard for others than a sociopath. A psychopath has no conscience, while a sociopath understands the difference between right and wrong, although that may not affect his/her behavior.
That's why it doesn't sound like the right diagnosis.
i'll give you the address of my family doctor, you can argue the finer points of diagnosis with her!!!
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