Sounds like you picked yourself out a good one. I've got the wretched disease in question here and would love to expound upon the intricacies thereof but don't like to air out all that stuff on an open forum. If it is what your mans got then I'm sure I can help you understand it better. PM me if you are interested in discussing further. So much time in incarceration is bound to have a profound effect. Can't see why he would have castrated himself, that's a new one to me. We can love and display empathy, it just takes a lot of effort and it doesn't feel the same way to us but comes across as the same outward expression. It's hard to explain but I think I can help you understand it better at the very least. Let me know.