Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31061080-20170116021657/@comment-31939138-20170528222918

Speedit wrote: I touched upon the whole idea of her being a "sociopath" before though: I don't think I'll call Piper a sociopath. She most definitely is too young and while she does do some things a sociopath might do, it doesn't mean she is a sociopath. But Lucas, she doesn't care a lot about other members of the seven in times of danger. It's inaccurate to say that Piper doesn't care about members of the seven except Jason but it is quite accurate to say she barely cares about them in times of danger. And let's look at the dictionary definition of obsession again. To think about something or someone constantly, consistently, or persistently or to dwell on something. Don't tell me she doesn't do these things because she does. In MOA, she was legit constantly thinking about Jason and what will happen if Jason ditched her and got mushy over Reyna even though Jason promised and swore on River Styx never to leave her. And she kept pondering about this until HOH when she knew for sure that Reyna had given up Jason. That is constantly dwelling on something excuse me. And she was constantly thinking about Jason too most of the time and was thinking things like what will happen if Jason doesn't remember me when her other friends are all in high risk of dying. That matches up a lot with the dictionary definition of obsession.
 * "Sociopath" isn't a formal term, ASPD is. Classical sociopathy's SPD.
 * She cannot be ASPD because of her age - it's CD at that age.
 * It is a case of 1+1=10 to me. I don't sense the evidence.
 * All disorders have a psychological cause. Any evidence that Piper is not just possessive are probably caused by early POV issues and parenting.
 * It's basically like saying that your parents didn't go shopping earlier in the week because the pantry is low on food.
 * If you scroll around my previous points, there actually is not enough reason to back up Piper being a "sociopath" from those who said so.
 * At that point, you realise that people are just appropriating the term for their own needs and want a fancy four-syllable label for Piper.