Human Darkness Break
Instead... you get an interview
I did an interview this last week with Schizoid Vision, on YouTube. It was a fun talk, and will serve as this week’s post, as it is an hour and a half long.
I will return next week with the second half of last week’s post.
Enjoy, and check out Schizoid Vision’s YouTube channel if Schizoid Personality Disorder is an interest to you. You can also find two interviews with Elinor Greenberg on her channel that I found to be very interesting.
Here is the interview link:
Such a fascinating interview.
I have a question for you Athena, something I've been wondering about for a while, and which this interview reminded me of - do you have a view on how much the fact of not being brought up in your biological family, and therefore being brought up by NTs rather than other psychopaths, has influenced the level of cognitive empathy you've been able to develop as an adult?
It's a bit of an assumption, but to me it seems like the level of cognitive empathy and understanding that you have is quite unusual for a psychopath (based on the fact that there are very few, if any, other psychopaths able to write about psychopathy with the level of insight you do, or the level of understanding of the neurotypical world that you have, hence having such a big following and being the number one writer on psychopathy on Quora).
I'm assuming here that a psychopath brought up by their biological family would likely be brought up by other psychopaths, since psychopathy is a genetically inherited condition. Although unsure if the genes are dominant or recessive, and therefore whether likely that both parents would be psychopathic, or just one.
It sounds like your parents put alot of work and energy in teaching you about cause and effect, and long term consequences of behaviour, which may have been the catalyst that enabled you to really develop your cognitive empathy as you got older - which is something you probably wouldn't have learned if brought up by other psychopaths?
Athena, thank you for having shared the interview with us. I like your politeness and respect, your very fast way of thinking and your patience with the person you are talking to. There is, again and again, much I can learn from you.
I would appreciate it if you would make an interview with an autistic person too.