Bipolar Joe wrote: » The university of yore ma, where'd you get yours? Fun fact, I'm bipolar, doesn't mean I know everything about it, same as having a kid with Asperger's and adhd doesn't make you and expert. And no, I'm an absolute bollix.
flutterflye wrote: » Read the grief thread. my mom when I was a kid died asshole.
Bipolar Joe wrote: » And that's genuinely terrible despite having absolutely nothing to do wth the conversation. My Grand dad got ass cancer, seeing as how we're sharing stories.
MCMLXXV wrote: » Psycopathy Psychosis What's the difference? (Genuine question)
flutterflye wrote: » See edit btw. It has something to do with "yore ma". I am not continuing this crap anyway. You have just started insulting me and being an a$$ for no reason that I can see. I may not know all there is to know about asd, but I bet I know a damn sight more than you. Goodnight to you.
What would you do if you knew your young child is a psychopath?
flutterflye wrote: » Different how? A sociopath may 'know' right from wrong, but it's not their 'fault' that they don't care. If they are just made that way, and someone with asd is made the way they are. Neither is better or worse. Both are disorders. One is pc, and one isn't, that is all. Anyway, I was only refering to the empathy aspect.
Bipolar Joe wrote: » Night love, I'll be in to you in a minute.
Akrasia wrote: » Psychopaths are people who are born without the capacity for empathy. They are extremely likely to grow up and commit some horrendous crimes. There is no cure. most psychopaths spend their lives in jail or a mental institution or are loose in society causing devastation to innocent people around them. If you were the parent of a 8 year old who you discovered was secretly torturing animals and displaying all the symptoms of being a psychopath, what would you do?
Mahatma coat wrote: » To those who say Put down the Psychopath heres another question for you What would you do if you knew your young Child had Down Synrome??
Akrasia wrote: » The point of the OP was that this is a very challenging moral dylemma. A psychopath is going to grow up and is almost certain to cause harm to others while pursuing his/her own self gratification regardless of the consequences. The dylemma is, as a parent, should you try to protect your child from the authorities who would probably lock him/her up in an institution if they knew he/she was a psychopath, or should you try and protect the wider public from your child given the risk that he/she might kill or rape or mutilate or even take control of a corporation and use it's resources in a way that would show no regard for society (there are studies that show that there are a significant number of psychopaths at the higher echelons of the political/corporate/religious ladder and the current global socio economic situation demonstrates how damaging it can be to have a culture of almost universal corporate irresponsibility) For parents of autistic children, the decisions are mainly about the childs own welfare, unless there are other factors at play in the individual case, an autistic person is unlikely to be a significant threat to others, while a psychopathic person is almost always a significant threat to others almost all of the time. I don't know what I would do if I was faced with the choice of protecting my child who happened to be born a psychopath, or betraying him and turning him in. I wonder how many parents who kill their own child do so because they believe that their children are evil (psychopathic) and i wonder how many of them may have been correct about their assessment and how many innocent people were spared the misfortune of having been prey to one of these psychopaths.
flutterflye wrote: » My son is more of a threat to others than himself tbh. If you have a child with asd, maybe they are different. I am just basing my posts on my own experience with my own child. You cannot say what I face as a parent. I have to watch my son like a hawk around my daughter, as he is likely to hurt her otherwise.
Mickeroo wrote: » No-one is born an emotionless psychopath. If your kid turns out to be one it's probably your fault. Also just because someone is an emotionless psychopath does not mean they have a mental disorder.
Akrasia wrote: » The current thinking is that psychopaths are born with a different medulla to the rest of the population. The medibula is the part of the brain that controls consequences and the anticipation of pain and fear. It means that a psychopath can not remember the pain he has suffered in the past and so can not fear a repeat of that pain in the future, he has no fear of the consequences of his actions. because he can not remember his own pain, he can not empathise with the pain of others. He has all the drive and intelligence of an ordinary person, but is is more impulsive and is more likely to take risks and not fear the consequences. He can learn strategies to make himself more successful in the future and this is how he learns, through trial and error and reason, not through fear of the negative consequences of failure. In many ways this provides the psychopath with all kinds of advantages over ordinary people, but the downside is that they are constantly at the risk of allowing their impulses to overwhelm their well laid plans and do sometheng very nasty indeed
Recent studies have triggered theories on determining whether there is a biological relationship between the brain and psychopathy. One theory suggests that psychopathy is associated with both the amygdala, which is associated with emotional reactions and emotional learning, and the prefrontal cortex, associated with impulse control, decision-making, emotional learning and behavioral adaptation. Some studies have shown there is less "gray matter" in these areas in psychopaths than in non-psychopaths.
Solnskaya wrote: » psycho!:D I'd just send the little fecker to live with Bipolar-joe, I reckon he'd break the hardest heart.
