For your consideration:
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They could also be psychopaths, as they share some traits with sociopaths. All umbrellaād under antisocial personality disorder, I guess. There are plenty of disorders that manifest in a perceived lack of empathy or emotionality, but a lot of those disorders involve people being kind of sheltered or awkward, whereas in the business world, the sociopaths and psychopaths do tend to rise to the top pretty quickly because they can be merciless and manipulative but also charismatic and charming.
Overall though, you canāt diagnose someone just by knowing them at work. Iāve had similar suspicions about some people, but theyāre just that - suspicions. And to answer your question directly, the absence of empathy doesnāt make someone a sociopath or a psychopath - itās the absence of a conscience that does that.
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Okay, gotcha -
They do have a conscience, but severely lack empathy.
damn, Iād hate to think Iām working with Schizos!
Sounds like theyāre just good old-fashioned dicks.
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Iām on the BBB week of SVR II and some guys were working out with their girlfriends, doing rack pulls next to me. Even with my headphones in I could hear how loud they are, and they kept pulling their shirts up to check their abs and bragging about their 3 plate mid-thigh rack pulls, so I was getting more and more frustrated. Anyways, after my mid-300s set of 5 I was supposed to drop back down to something like 290 for 5x10, but purely to upstage them out of spite, I slapped a 4th plate onto the 60 lb trap bar and pulled a loud, grunting PR of 420x12 while all four of them stopped talking and stared at me. Last rep was all grind, and I set it down like a baby and looked right at them - theyād been slamming their barbell down every rep.
It was very cathartic until I realized I still had to do the 5x10, then 50 push and 50 pull. Worth it, tho.
TL;DR I confess Iām petty.
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Worth it if you ask me- someone had to shut those douchebags up 
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I learned a new word today from a link from that link.
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What do you do for work ( just curious ). People with certain personality disorders seem to be drawn to specific fields Iāve noticed.
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Oh, itās worse than that. Schizos are Axis I. Schizoid is a personality disorderāAxis II.
Ask a therapistāsay, @EmilyQāwhether sheād rather work with Axis I, or II.
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Such as?
could misanthropes be confused with an actual disorder?
Construction. Industrial Construction. We work on big machines, like Steam and Gas Turbines/Generators, pumps,compressors, conveyor systems, roboticsā¦etc.
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I think Ted Kaczinski is often brought up as an example of schizoid personality disorder. Wanted to live in a small cabin in isolation. When he didnāt get the isolation he wanted (people hiking on his road, and mostly the logging industry cutting down trees) he started bombing.
These people have the potential to cause a lot of harm. They donāt interact with others much at all which makes them hard to catch for a few reasons.
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Damn, you cut me real deep just now.
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I imagine anything could be confused with anything.
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What do you call this without this bit: possess a rich and elaborate but exclusively internal fantasy world?
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Follow-up: does it count if you used to have one as a child?
Iāve been slowly convincing my roommate to workout. He started doing pull ups regularly a few weeks back and just told me he did my spin bike workout yesterday.
Our diets are both a little extreme though so at least thatās in common
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Iām seeing carbs, fat, and protein here. A well balanced meal as any.
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