Word: asp
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...confused with occasional periods of bad behavior or crimes of passion, ASP (also referred to as sociopathy) is defined in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a lifelong "pervasive pattern" of rule breaking and violating the rights of others that begins before age 15. ASPs are chronic troublemakers whose symptoms vary greatly in severity: they can be constant money borrowers, black sheep, pathological liars, white-collar criminals or, at the most severe end of the continuum, murderous felons. They are impulsive and grandiose, don't learn from punishment, are poor self-observers, blame others for their problems...
...shocking videotapes that Harris and Klebold made before the Columbine massacre provide a unique glimpse into the antisocial mind, say those who have studied ASP. "What's frightening is how cold and calculated all this was, with no regard for the consequences," says Black. "They view it through their perverse world view, not seeing it as others would, which is a characteristic of antisocials." Though the two boys expressed remorse for the hurt they were about to cause their parents, their ability to shut off such pangs of guilt is also characteristic of ASP. "There was some remorseful thinking...
...little studied psychiatric disorder known as antisocial personality. "We blame crime on everything from bad parenting to violent video games," says University of Iowa psychiatrist Donald Black, whose book Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder was published early this year. "But medical journals don't cover ASP, and no one wants to look at it. It's baffling...