A sociopath learning to love and care, a real person with antisocial personality disorder. I always found how Hollywood turn these real people with real conditions into villians and monster not just cruel, but a boring take as well. In real life people with these conditions don’t have any emotions, but it’s ‘lessened’ due to how certain parts of the brain work differently.
I think a romance story where they constantly switch between the lovers povs (point of view) where the person with the disorder and a ‘normal’ person would be far more interesting. Cause unlike what the stereotype suggest these people do care, just in a different way. They’re normal people, siblings, friends, partners, even parents who raise functioning members or society.
This disorder shouldn’t be treated as term to describe every bad person, but it’s hard to shake off when media shoves it in your face so much. Sometimes i catch myself doing it.