Unmasking the Mask: 69 Shocking Signs Psychopaths Use to Hide in Plain Sight
I haven’t seen or spoken to the family in quite a few years for one reason or another, but I sometimes wonder how they are. It might seem over dramatic, but that day I did steele myself that I might end up killing one of my oldest ‘friends’ to stop him killing me or one of his siblings. I rationalised it that in that moment he wouldn’t be E anymore, just a threat.
How do you know if you’re a psychopath? I technically care about people as a whole, as far as their rights and such, but individually I feel like I don’t care about people like I’m supposed to. I think there’s a disconnect. Most people are just an inconvenience to me. I try to be a good person on the surface, but I don’t feel like I am not-so-deep down.
Not a psychologist, but my wife is. I’ve asked her previously a question that goes along these lines. She says that oftentimes psychopaths and sociopaths fit in with the rest of the population, they manage to hide their strange behaviour and temporarily replace it with behaviour seen as “normal”.
She gave me some examples; Ted Bundy, Rodney Alcala (The Night Stalker) and John Wayne Gacy just to mention a few. While these men where a little weird in their childhood, they quickly understood that to fit in they had to radically change their behaviour so that they could lay low. Gacy even managed to get married and have kids.
So in my wife’s personal experience, it sometimes is very hard to indentify a psychopath as they tend to know what “answers” will qualify them as “normal”. But she says that a few revealing traits are the overwhelming joyfulness when telling stories, the aversion to sad memories and the overall difficulty understanding other people’s feelings. But even then, these are not traits exclusive to psychos.
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