Opportunity to brag about your social skills: I'm trying to figure out what I can learn from sociopaths.

I'm not a sociopath, just low empathy. This makes socialization a pain because I have to fake caring for others.

It seems like sociopaths are really good at pretending to care. I'm also good at this, but only short term and only when I have the energy. It's the classic "good at first impressions" problem.

How do you keep it up long term? Do you find it tedious? How do you overcome this barrier in the workplace or with maintaining long term friendships?

Fine if the answer is simply that you can't keep it up -- these questions are more directed to high functioning sociopaths.