Psychopathy, Asperger's: a 'serious' combination

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It's the long term planning and the long term view, like they can predict the future or something, and your long term reactions....
I understand how you would think you "can't outsmart him", but think of it as their special interest: manipulation. They're very focused on that. They're not burdened with any other idea or desire.
The thing that could stall an autistic person would be wondering whether they will be successful, lacking self confidence, and even caring when they fail. The sociopath does not linger on failure: he goes again. He does fail half the time, and that goes unnoticed anyway. Noone know of his plans but himself.

I already explained that's what I am. I like totally explained it. Totally.

The Unabomber seemed autistic. I know Martin Bryant was diagnosed with AS. Cho (Virginia murder spree) seemed to have symptoms of AS, not just selective mutism.

Social isolation, social persecution, and an extreme focus on something inappropriate, can probably equal a bad mix in the right and rare person. No need for anti-social PD to be there.

The article is definitely wrong. The moment I read him mention Dahmer probably having asperger's it rang warning bells. everyone who met him said he was a wonderful social person. Its why he could get away with what he did for so long.

I just said I changed my mind Meaning I believe you exist as you say you do. You shouldn't care whether I do or not this much! (sorry. Joking)
The fact that you explained it previously doesn't mean everyone has to believe you're telling the truth right?
But ok, I do now.

the skill set is awesome, I wish I had super powers too. But combined with another point in the personality, which is "viewing normal people as cattle", it can't be used for anything else than domination of said cattle. There is no wish to do good unless it serves oneself as a side effect... it's a bit like being drunk on power, because a superior cognitive empathy (superior to NTs), is a huge amount of power.
I think once you place yourself above others and direct them around with such ease, it must be close to impossible not to use this ability to advance yourself in life, even at the expense of others. I mean, especially if you're immune to affective empathy.

It was just my interpretation of wikipedia's page on anti-social personality disorder.

Sociopathy is a term that shows the influence of sociology, rather than psychology, and is more reflective of current beliefs of aetiology of the condition.

...and so what if they have defective or different amygdalae, fraac, has the concept of neuroplasticity completely passed you by?

You can't neuroplastic your way to emotions if your amygdala is broken.

"Psychopathy (/saɪˈkɒpəθi/[1][2]) is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime when in a violent emotional state or situation. Though lacking empathy and emotional depth, they often manage to pass themselves off as average individuals by feigning emotions and lying about their past."

It sounds like Asperger
Hell yes!

Oh my! I battled a psychologist who spoke of accidentally brain damaged people and compared it to autism, and told me neuroplasticity would allow my son to just "recover" from not being able to read non verbal cues just by being exposed to them...I never thought of throwing a definitive sentence like that in her face.
Thank you.

Depends. I can read nonverbals better than anyone I've met but I guess it isn't the same mechanism most people use. If your kid is exposed to enough harm early so that he needs to learn to read people, he will.

That's actually true. But you learn to read only the manifestation of incoming trauma that is the same you've been through.... For instance I could real sexual intentions in men from the age of maybe 7 or 8, and knew not to put myself in harm's way in that respect.
It didn't teach me much about anything else though.
Bullying taught me not to assume anyone liked me, but didn't teach me to recognise a "real friendly behaviour" from a fake one. It only taught me to avoid people who seemed friendly lol........

I always thought it was an autistic thing to know the difference between real and fake. I still think it is but I'm not sure why so many don't get or don't use the information.

What were the signs? I mean I find it hard to imagine there are heaps of men out there preying after children (hopefully). How do they approach it anyway?

Oh, I only knew because I had been molested before so I knew the "vague weirdness feeling". I had a radar after that, a friend of my parent's once opened the door to me when I was 11 or 12, he said his wife was out but to come in, he went to sit on the couch and patted the couch for me to come sit next to him. I was still at the door, I said I had something super important to do that I had forgotten about, and ran away. It was just the look on his face, nothing specific I could tell you to teach you how they "operate".
They were all either family members telling me that this was "normal but secret", or as you saw, family friends trying to get me alone.
And they generally approach it as a game. Once they get you to play it the first time, the shame of having "willingly" (or so you think) participated makes you protect the secret for them.