I thought I had Aspergers. But it was emotional dissociation from childhood experiences. Having everyone stress "social skills" to me was no good, it lead to more obsession with being like everyone else and denying my own emotions. I almost thought I was a sociopath or even that all emotions were secretly fake and everyone was a sociopath because the pressure to perform social skills during times I was being unsociable because of emotions or because I was just being me (And denying my emotions so I thought it was skills instead of just how I felt) was so great. I thought I was just a sociopath who didn't know how to charm and manipulate and needed to study precisely how people worked. Then I overcame my dissociation and realized I had neither of these things, though I imagine if I didn't sociopathy would've became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So I don't know, because I've known real people with Asperger's but emotional dissociation can be mistaken for it.
And just to make sure I'll point out I'm not equating Asperger's syndrome and sociopathy.
Was I wrongly diagnosed with Asperger's?
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I thought I had Aspergers. But it was emotional dissociation from childhood experiences. Having everyone stress "social skills" to me was no good, it lead to more obsession with being like everyone else and denying my own emotions. I almost thought I was a sociopath or even that all emotions were secretly fake and everyone was a sociopath because the pressure to perform social skills during times I was being unsociable because of emotions or because I was just being me (And denying my emotions so I thought it was skills instead of just how I felt) was so great. I thought I was just a sociopath who didn't know how to charm and manipulate and needed to study precisely how people worked. Then I overcame my dissociation and realized I had neither of these things, though I imagine if I didn't sociopathy would've became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So I don't know, because I've known real people with Asperger's but emotional dissociation can be mistaken for it.
And just to make sure I'll point out I'm not equating Asperger's syndrome and sociopathy.