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>>11834689
mixing autism with the negative social connotations to the word psychopathy. Also (and i may be wrong because its not my main subject of study):

>psychopathy:
underdeveloped or non-existant capacity for empathy, but a highly developed capacity for applying theory of mind, this is what allows them to socially callibrate and pick up on both social and "metasocial" (for a lack of a better term) rules.

>high-functioning autists:
unclear capacity for empathy (some cases can be emotionally hypersensitive, others blunt and flat), and a general brainlet-ness when it comes to organically develop the capacity for theory of mind, which is why they can't pick up social cues instinctively and sometimes appear to present the same level of callousness as a textbook psychopath.