I have a friend with anti social personality disorder and she’s suffering. We’ve both always read about things to understand them and I thought a book about it might help her– but all the books I found are not targeted at the person suffering the condition and probably wouldn’t be great recommendations.
The areas she’s suffering in most are social expectations and interacting with people. She suffers from many things someone with autism might deal with, so a book geared towards autistic people with those in mind might be good too.
She has a compassionate, but extremely logical way of thinking. So things that emphasize logical cut and dry explanations would also be helpful.
by RiskItForTheBriskit
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Are you looking for a memoir or more like a self-help book?
I’m a bit confused by the description of someone with antisocial personality disorder as compassionate, and also noticing your linking of ASPD and autism – which are two very different things. Are you/she confident of the ASPD diagnosis? Has she been thoroughly diagnosed by a psych?
Part of why I ask is due to knowing someone who self-diagnosed themselves as having ASPD for a number of years. What was actually had going on was a mix of high masking autism, PTSD, depression, and ADHD (though I dont think the adhd was directly causing the symptoms they were labeling in themself it was significantly contributing to their depression. The others were more directly creating the mix of dissociation and masking that they were interpreting as aspd). They’re now getting appropriate treatment and doing much, much better. I mentioned their self diagnosis to my therapist once years ago and her response was that based on what she had observed, people who self-diagnosed themselves with ASPD were almost always actually dealing with dissociation/trauma