Comments by "The E Guy" (@theeguy9022) on "Ask a Psychopath - What is it like to be you?" video.

It's called cognitive empathy and yea, it's a lifesaver for us. We might stumble a few times but it's always possible to learn where you went wrong, especially since when you're like this from birth and you can passively study your classmates as they age
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As the ones above me has stated, we cannot be brave. Being brave inherently means that a person is afraid and is still capable of overcoming such a thing. The correct term would be fearless although that's not always the case, phobias are actually something that can affect us normally.
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This rule (which is hardly true), is not something you want to rely on with us. Do you really want to pretend that we feel any shame when we lie to you?, we can look at your eyes perfectly fine and make all the right expressions, that's simply all there is to it. If someone is a bad liar, they won't be grounded in truth and there will be fault in the story, look for those faults and confront the person with it, know how they will attempt to spin it around on you, so make sure you're ready to defend your point calmly.
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They are likely real, we can get some form of excitement by finally talking about why we are how we are. Personally I often laugh with others but never alone, I genuinely enjoy interacting with them and studying all their strange quirks, people are predictable yet never fail to surprise me, so there's fun in it. This isn't to say I don't get my joy from thrill seeking, playing social games and the like but it does make it easier when the boredom can be quelled for a short time with conversation
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There is actually a way to do this now, though it seems to only elicit a feeling of power along with a sense that things will go your way. The issue is that while you could technically now do it, you have already understood and experienced those feelings, you know their weight while we do not. You could wander round in that numb state and see someone crying, you would still think of sadness while we would think of noise, a small example but it should get the point across
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Think of it like this, if I was to try and describe the concept of nothing, then I would fail as by describing it, it is no longer nothing, does that make sense?. It's a similar concept here as while we do not feel such things, just by mentioning them you interpret them to mean this thing that you feel that we don't. We do often carry detachment to our own feelings, but this is because most of those feelings are a crushing boredom, jealousy, anger or some other variation of them, so we present with the feelings that we see as beneficial, it's completely natural and it becomes easy to play into a mask when you're capable of almost fully believing it
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Well don't get me wrong, I love sex and money as much as anyone (maybe not food, never been a fan), but we can have deeper interests, even without deeper emotions. We're often rather clever and since we're this way from birth, we have more than enough time to learn the right things to say and do in response to the ques of others. On the other hand there is no mental strength to this disorder, strength would suggest we have some need to resist, but it would be more like shooting a bullet at the air instead of a wall
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I have had a few partners in search for one that would be able to handle such a relationship, and thankfully I have found one. I do not love them in any sense that people might usually do so, I can feel excitement when they do the things I'm into, I can feel comfort in knowing I can trust them, but in the end my "love" is entirely cognitive. A large part of our communication is done through actions as while I am capable of producing something that would stimulate feelings for them, such things would ultimately provide nothing for me, so physical acts and gifts are important to me. Some of my favourite times and when I am allowed to take off my "mask" so to speak, when I can make no more efforts to carry typical responses, it's not something my partner likes but they understand that I need such time to collect myself. In the end however, despite saying I do not love them, I do appreciate them dearly, they're something I may think of fondly when they're gone, but even when they're dead I'll feel no need to mourn.
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