Topics: Psychology, Health
A woman diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) has claimed there's a simple sentence that confirms whether someone has the disorder.
Sociopathy is not a medical term, with health experts preferring the ASPD term due to it carrying a lower stigma.
Signs of the condition include an inability to distinguish right from wrong, a lack of empathy, a tendency to manipulate others, and a disregard for social norms.
Kanika Batra is one internet personality to have spoken openly about living with the disorder, and states it's 'characterized by a lack of empathy, guilt, and remorse'.
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She explained on LADbible Stories: "A lot of people claim to be sociopaths, and they think, 'I've done bad things before. Am I a sociopath?'
"And the answer is no. Most of you still have empathy, guilt, and remorse. And what people like to call conscience. We don't have that."
In a video posted to her YouTube channel, Kanika explained how it can be pretty difficult to spot a sociopath, though she does always have a plan to seek them out and it involves saying something 'ridiculous'.
She explained: "The way I do this is by saying something absolutely ridiculous and seeing if they'll mirror me. I tell them that I spend my free time knitting; somehow they knit as well, or their uncle does."
Elsewhere in the LADbible Stories interview, Kanika explained how having ASPS makes her see both romantic and platonic relationships in a different light.
She said: "I will appreciate someone's value in my life and I will decide to love them. I will do whatever's in their best interest because I see them as an extension of myself, and I would never want myself to be harmed. So if anyone with me is, you know, attacked or bullied or treated poorly by anybody, I will be there no matter what.
"If I've decided to be in a relationship with you, I will put you above all else and I will every single day love you as an action. I don't just do flowery words, like, I will go out and do the exact things that make that person happy.
"And I think it's a more effective way to love than empaths."
Kanika also detailed a subtle physical sign that someone is a sociopath, and it involves the eyes.
"The eyes are pretty soulless," she said.. "If you see me get angry, you'll see my eyes become soulless."
