Bread, cake, pancakes. Though they effectively seem, taste and feel like very different confections, they actually have many ingredients in common and not too dissimilar preparations.
( though this view might superficially appear antagonstic to your thesis - it's actually complementary, so hear me out:)
Though neurological disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders and "attitude disorders" (ASPD) likewise seem very different indeed, they too share many common ingredients and are created under strikingly similar conditions. The key differences seem to pertain the proccesses involved (leavening/baking/cooking) as well as some of the ingredients used that are exclusive to each concoction.
Neurological disorders start in the womb (leavening), and seem to be triggered by persistent intrauterine cortisol floodings. Psychopathy and autism therefore seem to actually share a common genesis that for reasons not yet clarified, leads to diametrically opposed expressions. It's not unreasonable to suggest that such disorders are a function of indirect traumatization (the blunt of the blow being experienced by the gestating mother, and the baby harboring its indirect repercussions).
Neurodevelopmental disorders start during early childhood development (baking) and seem to all hinge around direct emotional trauma and/or chronic emotional distress, which forces the child to creatively adapt to the circumstances by splitting their psyche in order to reconcile the affective contractions they experienced but where not yet able to cognitively process at the time.
ASPD is arguably a more superficial disorder (cooking), more akin to an attitude problem that all too commonly can manifests i people who are merely misguided rather than outright traumatized.
This is why a factor 1 psychopath with a healthy upbringing will likely not feel compelled to be anti-social; rather, they will soon realize how being social aligns with their self-interest.
This is also why people who have PD's can't have their attitudes easily changed, as they crystallized along with the disorder - so changing the ASPD "topping" of a disordered person requires healing the underlying traumatization that created the attitude problem, whereas fixing a neurotypical ASPD layer can probably be done with standard corrective procedures like incarceration.
Fixing the ASPD layer of a pure psycopath who experienced adverse childood conditions may not at all be possible. Doing so through traditional coercive methods may actually reinforce the antisocial attitude.
May 14, 2023·edited May 14, 2023Liked by Athena Walker
The psycopath trait list describes someone I know fully. But this person was also heavily invested in flattering and receiving compliments. So a mix of both, I guess that makes for a Maligant Narcicist.
It seems to me that many traits can be shared within the dark triad types, while some in specific will be the ones able to provide a concrete categorization.
Bread, cake, pancakes. Though they effectively seem, taste and feel like very different confections, they actually have many ingredients in common and not too dissimilar preparations.
( though this view might superficially appear antagonstic to your thesis - it's actually complementary, so hear me out:)
Though neurological disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders and "attitude disorders" (ASPD) likewise seem very different indeed, they too share many common ingredients and are created under strikingly similar conditions. The key differences seem to pertain the proccesses involved (leavening/baking/cooking) as well as some of the ingredients used that are exclusive to each concoction.
Neurological disorders start in the womb (leavening), and seem to be triggered by persistent intrauterine cortisol floodings. Psychopathy and autism therefore seem to actually share a common genesis that for reasons not yet clarified, leads to diametrically opposed expressions. It's not unreasonable to suggest that such disorders are a function of indirect traumatization (the blunt of the blow being experienced by the gestating mother, and the baby harboring its indirect repercussions).
Cortisol and Oxycontin seem to have mutually regulating functions, by the way: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442937/
Neurodevelopmental disorders start during early childhood development (baking) and seem to all hinge around direct emotional trauma and/or chronic emotional distress, which forces the child to creatively adapt to the circumstances by splitting their psyche in order to reconcile the affective contractions they experienced but where not yet able to cognitively process at the time.
ASPD is arguably a more superficial disorder (cooking), more akin to an attitude problem that all too commonly can manifests i people who are merely misguided rather than outright traumatized.
This is why a factor 1 psychopath with a healthy upbringing will likely not feel compelled to be anti-social; rather, they will soon realize how being social aligns with their self-interest.
This is also why people who have PD's can't have their attitudes easily changed, as they crystallized along with the disorder - so changing the ASPD "topping" of a disordered person requires healing the underlying traumatization that created the attitude problem, whereas fixing a neurotypical ASPD layer can probably be done with standard corrective procedures like incarceration.
Fixing the ASPD layer of a pure psycopath who experienced adverse childood conditions may not at all be possible. Doing so through traditional coercive methods may actually reinforce the antisocial attitude.
The psycopath trait list describes someone I know fully. But this person was also heavily invested in flattering and receiving compliments. So a mix of both, I guess that makes for a Maligant Narcicist.
It seems to me that many traits can be shared within the dark triad types, while some in specific will be the ones able to provide a concrete categorization.