Narcissistic personality disorder fits the bill. It's much more likely than sociopathy based upon what I have read of you.
Most people who make claims like this are:
1. Lying. Pathological lying is on the psychopathic checklist, however, it's common in narcissists as well.
2. Claiming to be something that they percieve others to look at as "powerful" or "rare" or grandiose. You are trying to convince others of your own grandiose self image.
You're a textbook narcissist.
Defining characteristics of pathological lying include:
T
he stories told are usually dazzling or fantastical, but never breach the limits of plausibility, which is key to the pathological liar's tactic.
Your story is unverifieable and you know it.
The tales are not a manifestation of delusion or some broader type of psychosis; upon confrontation, the teller can admit them to be untrue, even if unwillingly.
The fabricative tendency is chronic; it is not provoked by the immediate situation or social pressure so much as it is an innate trait of the personality. There is some element of dyscontrol present.
A definitely internal, not an external, motive for the behavior can be discerned clinically: e.g., long-lasting extortion or habitual spousal battery might cause a person to lie repeatedly, without the lying being a pathological symptom.[2]
The stories told tend toward presenting the liar favorably. The liar "decorates their own person"[3] by telling stories that present them as the hero or the victim. For example, the person might be presented as being fantastically brave, as knowing or being related to many famous people, or as having great power, position, or wealth.
Pathological lying may also present as false memory syndrome, where the sufferer genuinely believes that fictitious (imagined) events have taken place. The sufferer may believe that he or she has accomplished superhuman feats or awe-inspiring acts of altruism and love —
or has committed equally grandiose acts of diabolical evil, for which the sufferer must atone or already has atoned in her/his fantasies.
(Nov 14, 2016 01:41 PM)Sweet16Mike Wrote: My name is Mike, that is no secret :D
I usually always get what I want and I use every damn trick in the book to achieve it.
Have no feelings at all, thanks to my ex girlfriend for that.
I can charm people like they are monkeys. I like being a sociopath but I guess that on long term it will get me killed.
Anyone else?
🤝
Above the "monkeys" ie you and I. Narcissistic. A psychopath generally wouldn't call people monkey's or brag about being a psychopath because they are generally aware of the negative social consequences of being labeled as such. A psychopaths goal is to survive by deception. It's how they evolved. To take advantage of society by deceit. A narcissist has the goal of getting a dopamine hit by projecting a self image to others.
Notice the orange. Attoning for something he says he has done. "I'm this big bad psychopath, but in the end, it will get me killed".
Also, you woulnd't have "no feelings" due to an external event, ie your "ex girlfriend". Psychopathy is generaly born, not bred.
