Asperger's Disorder Misdiagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)

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Asperger's Disorder is often misdiagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). In both cases, the patient is self-centered and engrossed in a narrow range of interests and activities. Social and occupational interactions are severely hampered and conversational skills (the give and take of verbal intercourse) are primitive. The Asperger's patient body language - eye to eye gaze, body posture, facial expressions - is constricted and artificial, akin to the narcissist's. Nonverbal cues are virtually absent and their interpretation in others lacking. (From the book "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" by Sam Vaknin - Click on this link to purchase the print book, or 16 e-books, or 2 DVDs with 12 hours of video lectures on narcissists, psychopaths, and abuse in relationships: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html)

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Science & Technology

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• asperger's disorder
• asperger's syndrome
• narcissism
• affect
• NPD
• emotions
• autism spectrum
• autism
• empathy
• entitlement
• communication

[creatrixdesign]

Thank you for showing the difference. What about the difference between Antisocial Personality Disorder vs. Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

[samvaknin]

@creatrixdesign See the relevant video on my channel.

[rhapsodyblue100]

Describing your feelings to an Aspie is like explaining the beauty of a rainbow to a colourblind person. They might peer briefly at the sepia band, puzzled by your fascination with it . Describing your feelings or a beautiful rainbow to a narcissist just makes them jealous of the attention you're paying to such trivial things when you could be focusing on them, their feelings, beauty, or expert knowledge of light spectrum wavelengths. They both act bored though, making it hard to tell. :-/

[SepherStar]

I think you are well spoken, however I have to comment on a few things. I have AS..or AD if you wish, and the passion for which I pursue my interests is not done as a result of social ridicule.

[MzSuperMinni]

I'm have asperger's & married someone who I thought had AS. However, when he noticed my AS traits he belittled/judged me, punished me w/ silent treatments & cannot understand my disability (before, he was understanding but his true side showed disapproval toward my social awkwardness).I believe he has NPD b/c he all of a sudden he stopped caring and understanding showed hate and disapproval. He's nice to others but can barely bring himself to be nice to me and acts mean and verbally abusive.

[Vottaro]

@SepherStar I have it too, the fact of the matter is, I find no sense in conforming to be accepted, I doubt I will ever understand people to the full extent, therefore I also doubt that I'd ever truly fit in, therefore I tend to focus on evolving the way I think without a living guideline. The social world seems quite hopeless to me, however I see much wrong in the world and so I became interested in Philosophy, the counter-cultural type of course. I believe that people are culturally corrupt.

[aaaaaFuck]

@rhapsodyblue100

There are different types of aspies

People with high functioning aspergers quite often do read or empathise with people's emotions, but just don't know how to respond or behave.

[anonymous19601]

And that's really only with my mother, whose pretty much Mommie Dearest.

[anonymous19601]

I've read your book, and I find it quite fascinating. I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, but I don't relate to other self-proclaimed "Aspies" at all. If I say so myself, I think that I'm just too clever to be truly diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. Basically, the only symptom of Aspergers that I have is "shutting down" during stressful confrontation, but that's only because I'm waiting for the offensive person to shut the fuck up and leave me alone without engaging him/her.

[Michelo17]

I suffer from Aspergers and I think this speaks alot of truth about us. But not all of us Aspies withdraw you see I quickly picked up on the fact that people will think I'm odd no matter what I do. So I decided to stay outgoing and have fun with it. Anyway I really enjoyed this vid. Do you think you can do more vids about Aspergers?

[numey]

hi, is it possible that both npd and aspie exist in the same person? or a person with a dissociative identity disorder where the other is a narcissist and the other is an aspie.

[PerpetualTiredness]

How do you know that a "NPD" person is really faking empathy and attentiveness?

[elfabyanos]

@rhapsodyblue100 No, actually to an Aspie its more like describing the rainbow but in a foreign language, the aspie can see colour, and so can the foreign person, but they still can't communicate about it. Usually people don't actually know how to describe their feelings in words, because they rely on facial expressions and body language without even realising it. And without being able to understand those non-verbal cues the aspie just hears a jumble of unrelated illogical points.

[bigschnabel]

This is skillfully observed and very well-articulated. Thanks.