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According to the Wikipedia article: "People with BPD feel emotions more easily, more deeply and for longer than others do."
To me that doesn't seem like the LW crowd, what would make you think that there's an overrepresentation?
Because it's a group of people who are excited for years about a rule for calculating conditional probability?
Yeah, I'm not serious here, but I will use this to illustrate the problem with self-diagnosis based on a description. Without hard facts, or without being aware how exactly the distibution in the population looks like, it's like reading a horoscope.
Do I feel emotions? Uhm, yes. Easily? Uhm, sometimes. More deeply than others? Uhm, depends. For longer than others? I don't have good data, so, uhm, maybe. OMG, I'm a total psycho!!!
No, there are a lot of data points.
One example: At the community we had one session where having empathy was a point. The person who's on stage to explain the rest what empathy is talks about how it's having an accurate mental model of other people and not that empathy is about feeling emotions.
I don't want to say that having an accurate mental model of other people isn't useful, but it's not what people mean with the word empathy in a lot of other communities. Empathy usually refers to a process that's about feeling emotions.
I actually attributed this to a higher than normal base rate of Asperger Syndrome.