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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by ipiz0618 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:59PM (#26828907)
It's impossible to tell if OP's on the spectrum. I used to think I could do that until I got close with a Clinical Psychologist. Sometimes it can't be confirmed even after a few in-person sessions with professionals, so it's certainly dangerous to "guess" it from a few internet comments.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by kortilla on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:08AM (#26829736)
For sure, but this person is asking for help and it’s worth pointing out that there is a lot of socially unacceptable behavior going on here. If he/she doesn’t understand that, it’s probably coming through in the interviews and would explain the ghosting. This is not a diagnosis, it’s a suggestion to get one.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by sangnoir on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:34AM (#26829501)
I think parent was saying that author is violating social norms - either because they are oblivious to them (like it is to some people on the spectrum) or they are aware of the norms, but do not care for them (which would be sociopathic)
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by kortilla on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:11AM (#26829758)
> but do not care for them (which would be sociopathic)

No, disliking social norms is not sociopathic. The critical piece of being sociopathic is a lack of conscience.

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by sigg3 on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:09AM (#26830550)
That's not true.

A sociopath knows that he's doing something wrong and chooses not to regret it.

A psychopath otoh has a low neural activity in the area of the brain usually associated with empathy.

The main point being that being a sociopath is learned behavior.

Cf. https://youtu.be/6dv8zJiggBs

(I agree that disliking norms are not sociopathic. The norms might be sociopathic.)

(Also: I'm not an expert, I could well be wrong.)

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by blackbrokkoli on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:05AM (#26830963)
You are wrong on a meta-level.

Both sociopath and psychopath are terms stemming from the early 20th century, where our main concern was to lable people ASAP and prescribe them a "cure".

No professional psychology authority uses either of those terms today. Instead, you get ranked on the Antisocial personality disorder spectrum. This has several advantages, like having an actual statistical body of research behind it etc.

So your random YouTube video might not be wrong in a sense, but more like someone defining what "miasma" or "bloodletting" is: Interesting, but essentially just a talk about medieval medicine.

I would urge you to refrain from (especially) diagnosing people based on public wisdom on psychology.