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I'm researched self dxed aspd alongside other cluster b's and professionally dxed autism and a hc-did system, and my empathy fluctuates. could my other comorbidities mellow out or maybe even contradict my aspd or make the symptoms milder so to speak?

Absolutely. Comorbidity is fairly well known to cause seemingly contradictory symptoms in all mental health disorders, and that is especially true when it comes to personality disorders and other disorders that cause neurological differences. Your brain affects every portion of your life - your thoughts, words, actions, decisions, etc etc etc. Because of that, ASPD is almost guaranteed to interact in some way with other comorbid disorders, especially for people with more than one comorbid disorder/neurodiversity.

For me, I've also been professionally diagnosed with autism (self dx is valid and that shouldn't be a hot take - that is never why I mention my diagnosis being professional/gen), and it does show through my ASPD in ways that affect the biggest signs of it. Examples below

I avoided breaking laws and rules that Made Sense™️ in my head because of my autistic sense of justice. Instead, my ASPD lack of respect for rules showed with literally anything that didn't make sense to me. You got once chance to explain if I asked, and if that didn't get me an answer then fuck your rule - you'd have answered me if it had any logic at all (see also b&w thinking that could be from the ASPD or the autism, who knows? lol).

I also appear to have empathy for very specific things - not people, besides my Exceptions - but animals and literal objects. Like many autistic people, I have the misplaced empathy thing towards stuffed animals and other inanimate objects - including some that make less sense like electronics. While watching Star Wars, I frequently notice (despite a strong fear of robots) that I only show empathetic responses for droids and animals when they are the victims of violence/mistreatment. Humans and humanoids, on the other hand, cause a severely muted disturbed pang that immediately goes away, if that. My empathy for fictional characters is always higher than for people irl, even though it is still very blunted.

I could give a bunch more examples of this, but suffice to say that comorbidity with any other disorders definitely has a high chance to cause some symptoms to interact in a way that seems to go against the disorders on their own.

There are some elitists who will fight you on this, but they are literally gatekeeping a mental health disorder like it's some secret club and do next to no critical thinking. They are objectively wrong, and I'd advise you to pay them no mind.

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Absolutely. Comorbidity is fairly well known to cause seemingly contradictory symptoms in all mental health disorders, and that is especially true when it comes to personality disorders and other disorders that cause neurological differences. Your brain affects every portion of your life - your thoughts, words, actions, decisions, etc etc etc. Because of that, ASPD is almost guaranteed to interact in some way with other comorbid disorders, especially for people with more than one comorbid disorder/neurodiversity.

For me, I've also been professionally diagnosed with autism (self dx is valid and that shouldn't be a hot take - that is never why I mention my diagnosis being professional/gen), and it does show through my ASPD in ways that affect the biggest signs of it. Examples below

I avoided breaking laws and rules that Made Sense (TM) in my head because of my autistic sense of justice. Instead, my ASPD lack of respect for rules showed with literally anything that didn't make sense to me. You got once chance to explain if I asked, and if that didn't get me an answer then fuck your rule - you'd have answered me if it had any logic at all (see also b&w thinking that could be from the ASPD or the autism, who knows? lol).

I also appear to have empathy for very specific things - not people, besides my Exceptions - but animals and literal objects. Like many autistic people, I have the misplaced empathy thing towards stuffed animals and other inanimate objects - including some that make less sense like electronics. While watching Star Wars, I frequently notice (despite a strong fear of robots) that I only show empathetic responses for droids and animals when they are the victims of violence/mistreatment. Humans and humanoids, on the other hand, cause a severely muted disturbed pang that immediately goes away, if that. My empathy for fictional characters is always higher than for people irl, even though it is still very blunted.

I could give a bunch more examples of this, but suffice to say that comorbidity with any other disorders definitely has a high chance to cause some symptoms to interact in a way that seems to go against the disorders on their own.

There are some elitists who will fight you on this, but they are literally gatekeeping a mental health disorder like it's some secret club and do next to no critical thinking. They are objectively wrong, and I'd advise you to pay them no mind.

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