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Sociopaths can develop attachments to those close to them, usually based more on personal benefit/gain but they sometimes confuse this with genuine emotional attachment.
Though yes, I'm not making an actual medical diagnosis.
I have no horse in this race, I just wanted to stop by and say sociopathy is not a diagnosis. You're looking for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Laypeople poorly use those terms trying to differentiate someone's disregard for right and wrong from someone else's.
Now that I've come in here and unloaded my nerd-ass "Umm actually" bullshit, I'll let you get back to talking shit about willful idiots.
Neat, good to know the real term.
Admittedly, as I an a lay person, using a commonly understood term in a social context does seem more productive/efficient than using the proper medical term, then explaining it.
It's sort of like how we say people will vote for Harris or trump when in actuality they are voting for electors, but everyone (well, except for a worrying number of Republican crazies and a disgraced former president) understands them to be the same thing.
That's fair! It's just one of my favorite ones to chime in with. No offense was meant
Some taken at first, none now. Especially as I imagine you see that incorrect application thrown across the internet with reckless abandon!
Sociopathy was absolutely a diagnosis until the DSM decided to fuck up a whole host of mental issues by combining them all into one vague term.