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Charm, grandiosity, manipulation, shallow emotion, no remorse. The six Factor 1 traits clinicians score, walked through one by one by a diagnosed sociopath assessed as Factor 1.
Factor 1 is the cold, interpersonal-affective core of psychopathy: charm, grandiosity, manipulation, shallow emotion, no remorse. Here is what it actually means, explained by someone assessed as Factor 1.
I was diagnosed with ASPD at 21. The word that actually explained me came later: Factor 1. Here is what it means, why I am the cold type and not the chaotic one, and how it reframed my whole childhood.