A Cluster D personality disorder, stated in the DSM-5 as 'a Personality Disorder defined by bouts of attention seeking behavior, including attempts to be edgyand ostentatious-- Due to low self esteem.
Diagnostic criteria:
A) Individual must display pretentious behavior for at least a week or more.
B) They must possess inhumanly
low self-esteem.
C) They incessantly spout phrases in an attempt to offend, shock, or appear 'cool' to others.
D) They claim to have antisocial attributes, yet they still confuse the terms antisocial with asocial.
E) They claim
knowledge of psychology, when they
get all their info from fictional television or
Quora.
F) Blasts deathcore public areas, in an attempt for attention.
G) Makes claims that they 'understand
slam lyrics'.
H) Claims of a terrible childhood, yet scores a
flat '0 ACEs' on the 'ACE study '
test.
I) Claims that they are a master manipulator, when in doing so, does the exact opposite.
J) Obsessed with firearms.
K) Claims an absurdly high IQ, (and refers to it as '
Intelligence Quotient').
L) Despite their 'extreme perception', they seem unable to depict how others are really reacting to them.
M) Adopts a plethora of
facts to sound intelligent, sometimes using their 'elaborate parlance' instead of speaking like a normal person in an attempt to impress.
These must be present in subject since age 9 and still be present by age 16+ in order to be diagnosed.
'Did you see Carl's posts on
4chan about how he is the ultimate
sociopath, with his whole 'I don't feel a
thing' rant?'
'Do you think he might have Antisocial PD?'
'Pfffft. More like EPD, or 'Edgelord Personality Disorder'
