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arty88
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I personally have a strange interest and fascination with the study of Psychopathy (now typically diagnosed formally in mental health manuals DSM, ICD etc as 'Anti-Social Personality Disorder' in Adults and 'Conduct Disorder' in children / teenagers.
Was there someone you knew throughout your childhood or perhaps early youth that was always amoral?
They would do things without thought of conscience. Not for laughs or as a prank - I am talking about real callous actions.
I once knew a boy at school who was a bit overweight, moderate to under average IQ but had almost no emotional intelligence at all. It was like he was 'blind' to the hurt and suffering he would cause around him with his words and actions.
This was a long time ago for me. But because 1 in 100 people fit this criteria (it is probably higher than that), everyone should have had experiences of knowing someone like this.
In my last example, the boy was highly racist, smoked cannabis a lot and dabbled with other drugs - but would sometimes violently attack strangers. For example, he got off a bus once to beat up an immigrant Polish man - purely out of hatred for immigrants and as some sort of 'hero' mindset to help a young pregnant women who wanted his help in 'freeing up the seat next to her' he had taken up.
Very strange. Has anyone else met or experienced being in contact with psychopaths?
Was there someone you knew throughout your childhood or perhaps early youth that was always amoral?
They would do things without thought of conscience. Not for laughs or as a prank - I am talking about real callous actions.
I once knew a boy at school who was a bit overweight, moderate to under average IQ but had almost no emotional intelligence at all. It was like he was 'blind' to the hurt and suffering he would cause around him with his words and actions.
This was a long time ago for me. But because 1 in 100 people fit this criteria (it is probably higher than that), everyone should have had experiences of knowing someone like this.
In my last example, the boy was highly racist, smoked cannabis a lot and dabbled with other drugs - but would sometimes violently attack strangers. For example, he got off a bus once to beat up an immigrant Polish man - purely out of hatred for immigrants and as some sort of 'hero' mindset to help a young pregnant women who wanted his help in 'freeing up the seat next to her' he had taken up.
Very strange. Has anyone else met or experienced being in contact with psychopaths?