I keep trying to find some kind of leftist who claims to have antisocial personality disorder, and the only person I have found so far was on a random leftist discord who acknowledged they might instead be an egregiously misdiagnosed autistic person. I have checked the words "antisocial" and "ASPD" through search on this site, and nobody has ever mentioned personally having ASPD.
Google is unusually useless at the task, too. The most relevant things are articles pertaining to the Soviet and Cuban practices of detaining and imprisoning people who are deemed to be "antisocial." After some digging, I found the usual anticommunist talking point about Stalin and Mao being worse than Hitler or something, tacking on a baseless claim that Stalin and Mao may have been antisocial. No meaningful info.
There's no difficulty at all in finding antisocial fascists, cops, chefs, capitalists, or CEOs. Why can't I find an antisocial comrade? Is there some part about leftism that is inherently exclusionary towards antisocial people? Is it a problem to be exclusionary towards antisocial people?
If any comrade here has ASPD I would really appreciate hearing your experience.
There absolutely is. I was leftist before I was really empathetic - what did it was my material conditions. The core of my radicalization was being too broke to afford a pack of smokes while working shit McJobs that made a ton of money for the corporation. The thing that led me to leftism specifically was hearing about some dude in Berkeley who got arrested for hitting Nazis with a bike lock and I said to myself "that owns, actually, let's see what else these Antifa believe in" and having every single one of my workplace experiences validated by Marx. I had to have the empathy bullied into me by the old subreddit, honestly, and it's still something I still struggle with. I don't think I'm ASPD, though, just a :le-pol-face: pmc dork failson with maybe a little more self-awareness than most of my ilk.
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Antisocial behavior is not the only facet to ASPD, in the same way that sneezing does not automatically mean you have a cold; you're conflating a single symptom with an entire disease. There are plenty of symptoms I don't exhibit, like conduct disorder, aggressiveness, or impulsiveness - in fact I'm about as far from impulsive as you can get. Even if ASPD was a spectrum I would barely be a blip on the radar at all. I was just a sheltered, alienated manchild who couldn't really understand what it meant to be exploited or marginalized until I got just the absolute tiniest taste of it and then had someone else painstakingly explain how that applies a billion times more to a lot of other people.