Unmasking the Mask: 69 Shocking Signs Psychopaths Use to Hide in Plain Sight
I’ve studied psychology as well as psychopathy for a while now and I think I may have been blinded to this possibility because he seems like a good kid, and he’s just that, a kid.
No callous indifference, no hint of malice, he makes it seem like that was just what he had to do. Which a looooot of kids growing up in very impoverished areas are almost taught to do. But as I read this thread he immediately came to mind. I’m not sure if it’s just me looking for it now or what but I feel like there’s more going on there than appears to be.
Not me, but my brother is a psychologist, and he’s told me some crazy s**t. Once, he was talking to some brothers (separately) who were bullying their younger brother who kept bullying their little brother. One of them told my brother that he would beat their little brother with a phone book because they wanted to do an experiment to see if his bones could break. The other one said that he locked their little brother in the basement for a whole night because he thought it was funny that his little brother was crying so loud. They’re both adults in a psych ward now…
It is extremely hard to be honest. I’ve worked with plenty of people with diagnoses of “psychopathy/psychopathic traits”, or “antisocial personality disorder” (as it is now called) who are definitely not psychopaths. They are actually quite rare. The closest I’ve come was a meeting with a guy after he had just been sent to prison for murder; he described the murder very blasé but with lots of detail with an intent to disturb me. He also mentioned having a psychologist as a child due to his mother’s concerns for his “robotic nature”, however he upset the psychologist so much she refused to see him… So he says. I ofcourse have no proof of this and am not inclined to believe it.
It’s important to note though, that psychopathy isn’t a “bad” thing, it’s psychopathy plus a history of a**se that causes the antisocial behaviour and tropes many associate with psychopaths, and the same behaviour can occur without the psychopathic genetic/neurological makeup.
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