Can sociopaths be multitalented and gifted individuals?

Question

?who have high iq's?

Answer 1

Yes, and they often are..

Answer 2

I believe they definitely can. What defines a sociopath is usually a lack of empathy for anyone and everyone. I'll look up more info though on the defining characteristics.

Antisocial personality disorder (abbreviated APD or ASPD) is a psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-IV-TR recognizable by the disordered individual's disregard for social rules and norms, impulsive behavior, and indifference to the rights and feelings of others. The World Health Organization's ICD-10 diagnostic manual uses dissocial personality disorder instead. The concept psychopathy (not to be confused with psychosis) generally denotes a related but more severe personality disorder.

Sociopathy is sometimes claimed to be a less formal synonym for this disorder based on terminology from an older edition of the DSM. Various experts have co-opted the terms psychopathy and sociopathy inconsistently to mark differences in meaning they believe are theoretically important although there is a consensus that both terms refer to personality disorders with prominent norm-breaking and socially disruptive behavior.[citation needed]

Answer 3

The people who have talents, the gifted, the geniuses -- they also suffer the same problem that you are suffering because they forget that the whole existence is ordinary. A sunrise, howsoever beautiful, is pure ordinariness. A sky full of stars does not feel in any way special. A rosebush full of beautiful flowers and fragrance is just part of the ordinary existence.
The talented people get into trouble because they forget their relationship with existence. They become confined and imprisoned in their small talents.
What are your talents and what are your geniuses? Because you can paint, you are a genius? Look at the butterflies, look at the flowers, look at the sky when the sun is setting -- the whole existence is so colorful. And because you have painted a small canvas, you have become special. And what have you painted?
The existence has to be remembered; then you will not get caught in the net of an egoistic feeling, that "I am special." The moment you feel you are special, you have lost contact with life, with love, with the totality of the whole -- you are alone.
A true genius does not know, does not feel that he is special. That is the criterion whether he is a true genius or not. If he feels that he is special, he's not a true genius. The very feeling of specialness arises out of your inferiority. The more inferior you feel, the more you try to pretend, to pose your specialness.

Answer 4

Absolutely

Answer 5

I believe so. The disorder is only limited to social situations, from what I've heard. I doubt that would very well affect your IQ.

Answer 6

Not only that but I think they are highly cunning, crafty, manipulative, deceitful, conniving, clever, tricky, charming, and many more adjectives.
I've heard that there are those in jails. The ones that aren't are the ones smart enough to work their way around the penal system.
Geniuses they seem to be.

Answer 7

how do you think they get everyone to believe them.