My wife is telling me that I'm a sociopath

Clearly it's rocks-in-sack-over-bridge time.

true dat. i reckon that's evidence that it's a bit flawed as a diagnostic tool.

or maybe not.

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ergo, he's no sociopath.

he also doesn't torture small animals (again, as far as i know).

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Do gerbils really enjoy felching? I find that hard to swallow.

"Is it anything like a psychopath?" asked I.

"No, it's more like if there was a plane crash, you would be the one suggesting eating the survivors." he explained.

"Survivors?"

"Umm, no that would be a psychopath."

So there yez go.

Someone took PICTURES of the hamster rimming? What kind of sick place IS this?

The DSM-IV is good post office line reading.

-- Sean Carruthers (oneiro...), September 22nd, 2004.

email me. i'll tell you more.

I once knew a con man who was an actual psychopath, and he would never 'admit' such a thing, bragging or no. Anyone who calls them into question is the psychopath.

This dude created a whole fake internet persona that was twenty-five years older and of a different race. He used it to verbally bully people, and when people confronted him about it, he would talk about all of his horrible experiences in the 'nam, and how everyone is so privileged compared to him because they didn't have to go to Vietnam, etc. It turned out the whole thing was fake, because he's about 30 years old, and he doesn't feel the least bit guilty about it.

I'm still mean, though (and able to read).

http://www.sociopathworld.com/

oh great, more identities to enrich our personal projects of self-growth

i think the people who created that site, and are trying to find acceptance and understand from non-sociopaths, are probably not sociopaths

*understanding

have looked at this stuff before and feel like the preponderance of the "pro-social sociopath" angle suggests it's mostly scott adams types who like to imagine their obeisance to social norms is an ingenious manipulation. also people into serial killers. also sociopaths; who knows.

this was something tho:

How would a sociopath react to the fat girl in a tube top. I think people think that sociopaths would be the meanest of the mean. But what benefit is there to a sociopath in being mean, even exceptionally so? There would be much greater value to the sociopath in being friendly and propping up the girl's self-esteem. Now she feels like they have commonality. The sociopath has made a friend, and if the girl wants to keep getting the validation from the sociopath, she will be a loyal and dedicated friend. Of course this approach involves some degree of manipulation because the sociopath is more consciously choosing to present himself as a friendly ally, and not for some more lofty goal of crusading on behalf of the weight-challenged. But does that make his action any less pro-social? Or any less a welcome response from the fat girl?

I think people think that sociopaths would be the meanest of the mean.

sociopaths are such meanies

really makes u think

anyway, met a girl who self-identified as a sociopath. we had a fling because i'm all about good decision making. i wouldn't recommend it.

Just realized last night this one person - who is just the worst person I know, just a total self-involved jerk, who has proudly admitted to me multiple times taking pleasure in making random people suffer - is a complete sociopath. Every time I am around this person they constantly make me feel like I am being used, and usually the end of the encounter they pull some really disrespectful and domination shit on me solely for their own pleasure. I feel like someone needs to kick this person's ass a few times for them to learn their lesson but I also feel like this is some deep-seated sociopathy that will never go away and this person would make a really good cop or politician.

Difficult listening hour, it's sort of not about being mean or not being mean w sociopaths. Normal people can be mean and not mean too. It's a disconnect, a complete inability to empathize with the victim. Sociopaths aren't meanies, they are just unable to have a real connection with anyone outside the tunnel vision of their own ego.

Why do you have to deal with this person?

Live with them =(

oh man, get out now. people like that can have a totally corrosive effect on you, even if you don't notice it while you're in it.

It's a 4 person household. One of the other people is apparently thinking of subletting for a few months this summer. Then one day the other 3 of us are smoking cigarettes on the front porch and he brings up that, btw, my friend is moving in to that room. Just without asking anyone, tells his friend to move in. Pulls this kind of shit all the time, telling his friends they can stay over and not even asking anyone. I brought it up w the landlord but he doesn't really want to deal with this person.

I'm not leaving cos I've lived here for years and it's an amazing deal. And this guy being an asshole is not going to change that.

tbh sounds like a terrible deal

murder him

I'm definitely done 'hanging out' with him, which usually amounts to me starting up a videogame and watching him play it, then leave when it's my turn.

Dude has a history of making people pissed off. First week he moved in he told me everyone at his work (a restaurant) had made him cry. He was crying because people were mean to him. He gets fired often, and I'm pretty sure he's just going to step on the wrong toes soon and be out annoying someone else.

A few weeks ago I was with a mutual friend, and we were getting ready to record some music, and he had bought me some wine. Sociopath ends up stopping through with his friend, both sit down and my friend offers them wine. They proceed to finish the whole bottle, never saying thank you, in fact just getting more and more rude to us. Sociopath & friend was going to a concert and asked us if we were going to, and we said no, we got to work on this music, thanks though. He suddenly gets super serious and gestures in a downturned circle with his hand, saying "THIS conversation is over". What a effing dick. I called him out on it, said "Oh, dudes have finished drinking our wine and are done with us, now." and the asshole just thought he was being funny.

At the same time, something really insignificant happened and he kept asking me if it made me mad. The guy has no clue.

how old are you

Older than the movie Ghostbusters.

I lived with someone like this, but he was a pathological liar. Literally making up complete transparent lies about himself in order to boost his prestige and impress people. He'd brag about his drinking achievements - how he once (twice actually) crashed his car while living in the South of France. Speaking of the 'South of France', he apparently picked up a lot of French during his sejourn. Now I speak fluent French, and what was coming out of his mouth wasn't terribly familiar to me. Now to me, it sounded mostly like a lot of gobblywobble with the odd cuss word thrown in. This, he explained, was 'pub French', not the usual French that I would know. Plus he was the laziest see you next tuesday I've ever met.

Bumped into him the other day, pissed out his head like usual 'Just bought a house, doing it up' was his latest news. I see him through the window of the pub I walk past every day at about 5.30pm.

Oh and he kept Maggie Thatcher and Enoch Powell's autobiographies on the bookshelves in our living room for all to see.

the above sounds petty, but i've pretty much blotted out the worst of what this guy was like. oh there was that time he took up a cocaine habit (we lived next to a busy pub) and he did three lines in the middle of the afternoon and left the house singing "I'M IN LOVE WITH COCAINE". We got calls from our landlady after the pub complained.

sounds like an r-rated homer simpson moment

This guy is a cashier, and his favorite thing to do is wait for a customer to come up and order, then just stand there and pretend like he didn't hear it, and as soon as the customer opens his mouth to ask if he got it, he cuts them off by confirming the order. This is an extremely pleasurable experience to this guy. He pats himself on the back for being so clever and rude to this customer. He's a sick.

didn't realise i knew dog latin IRL

lol at 'pub French'

le beer

Fascinating but unsettling read:

I was sitting across from a man at a dinner party — this was like two years ago — and my diagnosis came up, and 30 seconds afterward he said, “You know, I have thoughts of killing my wife a lot.” Not to normalize that, but I was like, Tell me about that. And he goes: “I’ve really thought about it. I’ve reached out to people about hiring somebody to kill her.”

So people just assume that you’re a sympathetic audience?

Yeah, because these are things you’re not supposed to think about. So to be able to talk to somebody — you don’t have to worry that I’m going to start clutching my pearls.

she sounds totally normal to me. except for the strong feelings for pets thing. those people are nuts.