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Sadism: help please!

1. You are not autistic.

2. You are an abuser.

3. Go away.

4, You enjoy hurting children, women, and animals. Coward. Sissy. Coward.

5. Only cowards harm the weak. I know you for what you are. Coward. Coward.


Coward.

Coward.

Coward.
 
TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions abuse, suicide, self-harm, unpleasant topics and TMI.

TLDR: I did horrible stuff in my childhood and past. This includes childhood friends, exes, and animals. Crying activates the same part of my brain as seeing something cute. I don't feel guilt, I don't feel grief. I know my actions are monstrous, am I a psychopath? Should I seek therapy?
Your post reminds me of accounts of psychopathy that I've heard. However, I don't like labels so I wouldn't let something like that define you even if you were diagnosed with it.

Nothing traumatic happened to me for me to be a sociopath
As far as you know. I heard a story about someone with psychopathic traits who was raised well except for being abused by a babysitter when he was a baby. Something could have happened that your parents weren't aware of and that you can't remember. Contrary to popular myth, one thing science has revealed about mental illness is that it's not genetic.

I don't think wanting to harm others is abnormal. I see many seemingly normal people express a desire to harm others, usually when someone is accused of certain crimes, such as abuse and murder, wishing they'd get locked up, abused in prison, or even executed. Therefore, the abnormality, as I see it, was your desire to harm innocent people who did nothing wrong. If something happened when you were a baby, you may unconsciously see others as evil, which may explain why you wanted to harm others.

I'd focus on trying to see the good in others and seek to form healthy relationships since people generally don't want to harm those they love and see as good. Even though you don't feel grief, I think you should volunteer to help people and animals in need to help make up for what you've done.
 
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well I see the OP may have gotten what he possibly desired,by reading the attack responses , But if it was a intended actual request was for help, then I would hope to address the situation, from that point of veiw . Reactionary responses may not give intended responses ,(what those responding), wish to hope to acheive . ? possibly?
 
Contrary to popular myth, one thing science has revealed about mental illness is that it's not genetic.
This isn't entirely true.

1. Some are heritable, which implies they have a genetic factor
2. Some (including a specific example I gave above) turn up on scans, but are not caused by physical trauma or environmental factors.
Those are likely to have a genetic factor, but may not be heritable

An example of an illness that isn't heritable is Klinefelter Syndrome.
NB: Klinefelter's isn't a mental illness. I used it because I couldn't quickly find a mental illness that doesn't have some degree of heritability. But I didn't look too hard because I already knew it was true for Kilinefelter's.

I'm doesn't matter though: I don't doubt that there are mental illnesses that have to genetic factor.

In fact I reference "learned narcissism" here sometimes, and it obviously conforms to your assertion.
is narcissism hereditary at DuckDuckGo
 

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