The words antisocial disorder strike awe and horror during discussions. This abnormal psychological disorder has been exaggerated in pop culture due to its bizarre nature and linkage to media highlights, such as serial killings or stock market scandals. Some huge icons bearing the title of antisocial from pop fiction include Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs, The Joker from the Batman series, Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair, Norman Bates from Psycho. Additionally, do not forget real, notorious, antisocial criminals such as Garry David, Kenneth Lee Lay, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy. Unfortunately, the large interest in antisocial behavior due to pop culture has not lead the people to have a deeper or better understanding of this disorder. The fascination with connecting criminal activity to antisocial disorder …show more content…
(TEXTBOOK!!!) Psychological research reveals antisocial behavior can be detected in a person during early childhood or adolescence. There is correlation between an adult having antisocial disorder if he or she experiences conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder as a child. In fact, one of the criteria to diagnose an individual with antisocial disorder is to determine whether or not he or she did exhibit evidence of having conduct disorder before the age of fifteen. Therefore, children under the age of eighteen cannot be diagnosed with having antisocial disorder. However, children can be diagnosed with having either, or both, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder. Both of these abnormal diagnoses exhibit close resemblances to antisocial disorder. All of these behavioral disorders mentioned share common traits such as displaying an “ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior toward authority figures”,