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So ASD makes me display arrogance to compensate for my baseline lack of social skills

Mungri

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NPD - lack of empathy towards others and arrogant feelings of superiority over them.

ASD - lack of empathy of self (what am I? Who am I? Why do I feel dead all the time etc), and arrogance to cope with handling socialising.

Also my irl meltdown rages are basically defensive psychopathy.

Very little difference between ASD and cluster Bs, mainly that my issues are internalised, cluster Bs externalise their problems onto others.
 
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At least you're aware of the problems and attempting to address them, although debatable on effectiveness lol. More power to you for that.
Like the diagnosed sociopath lady on youtube says, she can't fix her sociopathy, only try to spot and stop being manipulative and apply cognitive empathy to navigate day to day life.

Permanent acting / masking.
 

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