Strong creative abilities, strong technical skills, somewhat flexible relationship with details, no qualms about picking up and moving across the world, serial monogamy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Most of their descriptions focus on delinquent, criminal, or otherwise questionable behavior.
I would say not a single 1 of Cleckley's 16 traits applies to me (though hard to interpret his #1 and #2).

Sociopaths are not Psychopaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder

Wait, hold on, ignoring everything that's actually relevant to the topic of this thread, I'm pretty confused with respect to this post. I always thought that psychopathy and sociopathy were, in fact, roughly the same thing (at least insofar as either of them are precisely defined), and that neither of them were the same as borderline personality disorder. The Wikipedia article that you linked to on borderline personality disorder also makes no reference to either sociopathy or psychopathy, and the article on psychopathy (of which sociopathy is itself a subsection which is redirected to from a Wikipedia search for sociopathy) also does not seem to support the notion that "sociopaths are not psychopaths" either.

Wait, hold on, ignoring everything that's actually relevant to the topic of this thread, I'm pretty confused with respect to this post. I always thought that psychopathy and sociopathy were, in fact, roughly the same thing (at least insofar as either of them are precisely defined), and that neither of them were the same as borderline personality disorder.

Yeah, it seems it would really help my case if I actually posted the right link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

You are correct, sociopathy and psychopathy are somewhat-outdated terms for conditions lying at various points along the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is almost the exact opposite (too much emotion, versus not enough).

Wait, hold on, ignoring everything that's actually relevant to the topic of this thread, I'm pretty confused with respect to this post. I always thought that psychopathy and sociopathy were, in fact, roughly the same thing (at least insofar as either of them are precisely defined), and that neither of them were the same as borderline personality disorder.

Yeah, it seems it would really help my case if I actually posted the right link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

You are correct, sociopathy and psychopathy are somewhat-outdated terms for conditions lying at various points along the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is almost the exact opposite (too much emotion, versus not enough).

That makes infinitely more sense.

In any case I am still not seeing anything that describes me in virtually any way, and also not related to creativity, technology, etc.

Since I am still not convinced you’ve found the word for which you are looking and I was also just curious I looked up “personality disorders” in general and found that the most prominent and common characteristic between all of them is general unhappiness, and therefore I was able to immediately conclude that I have no personality disorders.

Eccentricity is a characteristic of some disorders but is in itself not a disorder, and in fact seems to decrease the risk of mental illnesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentricity_(behavior)

Now that describes me perfectly, even to the point it makes on the pedantic nature in which some eccentrics speak (my case having an obvious focus on grammar).

L. Spiro

Hmm. That applies me pretty well. Maybe that's why a trainee calls me mad scientist in work.

But read what I said carefully. Round 3 has hundreds. If you pass round 3 you are 1 of the 24 who are going to Mars.

So passing the medical is a prerequisite for R3, not R3 itself?

There aren't 24 going to Mars. "20-40 applicants will participate in challenges that demonstrate their suitability to become one of the first humans on Mars"

So passing the medical is a prerequisite for R3, not R3 itself?

Correct.

There aren't 24 going to Mars. "20-40 applicants will participate in challenges that demonstrate their suitability to become one of the first humans on Mars"

That is round 3, and those 20-40 are per-region. It is not clear yet how many regions there are but in total round 3 should have a few-hundred people.
24 (6 teams of 4) pass round 3 and eventually go to Mars, 4-by-4. Round 4 has 24 and is not an elimination round; it is the confirmation that you go to Mars should their plans go accordingly.


L. Spiro