Thread:Love Robin/@comment-31064368-20170116161938/@comment-1705775-20170116235036

psychopaths and sociopaths are considered to suffer anti-social disorders btw, that's why they can't really be "cured" - there's also a point that most psychiatrist do not recognize sociopathy.. because it is so misused and misunderstood - heck, they're wary of apply the term "psychopath" for the same reasons.

the fact is a sociopath is a pyschopath, if we use the terms at all.. many in the medical field don't use either terms and this isn't about real life mental illness or disorders but about how they are portrayed in fiction : almost all sociopaths in fiction are portrayed more or less the same as a psychopath (a psychopathic villain in fiction is also rarely anything like what a real-world psychopath would be.. unless the author researched : Joker for example is nothing like any real-world sociopath OR psychopath.. not sure what he'd be classed as if he was real but he certainly wouldn't be a simple "psychopath").