Showing psychopathic tendencies....

[MikeYikes122]

I am a big fan of the true crime genre and shows on A&E like Cold Case Files and American Justice. I'm not a doctor, but I have wasted a lot of time reading up on these kinds of subjects and watching programs about them.

The biggest trend in sociopathic serial killers is that all of them had something traumatizing happen to them when they were kids. The Iceman was beaten by his dad and all sorts of fvcked up things happened to him at the family level when he was a kid. This triggered something in his personality where his tendency for fearlessness combined with the lack of empathy and emotion he experienced as a child. He turned into one of the most notorious cold-blooded killers of all time because his fearless brand of personality was taught not to feel emotion when he was kid and his dad beat him.

The make-or-break thing for people with these types of personalities seems to be the childhood. I read somewhere that if the Iceman would have had a normal childhood, he'd have probably gone on to do amazing things with his life. His mental programming to completely lack fear would have made him a great soldier or police officer. But because he was robbed of emotion and empathy when he was a kid, he became one of the most legendary mob killers of all time.

Not sure what that means for you, but since you said you had an OK childhood, and I'm assuming you haven't killed anyone yet, I'd think you're probably not as bad of a guy as you described. I lived with business majors in college and a lot of them have tendencies you described. They didn't feel emotion and only saw things in terms of risk and award.

 

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"So I'm pretty much fvcked...Heh, but this is not how I portray myself. I'm not some kid that lives in his parents basement and play WoW 24/7. I pull chicks left and right, and it seems like people are flocking to me. Weird sh!t."

Heh, its funny to me that so many socios I've talked with think that being one entails that they should of turned out to be a loser just by being one but its just the opposite.

Socios have such great interpersonal manipulation skills that they have been known to talk chicks into letting them pimp the girls out to their friends at like 13 or 14 years old. Thats how young your manipulation talents shine through.

Stuff like this and how you all seem to succeed and rise to incredible heights in the business world is proof that you're not destined to be losers as sociopaths.

Criminals very likely either white collar or gangland but losers in the general sense the world views the term? no.

Robert Hare even has a book about white collar crime and the sociopaths role in it titled "Snakes in Suits."

"Btw, I got a promotion to middle managment at my work a couple of months ago, and now they want me to contact HR so they can do a DISC test on me. It'll be fun to see the results of that one."

Congrats on the promotion.

BTW did you do the test on sociopathic.net where you have to guess the next symbol in a sequence?

One ASPD I showed the site to told me that he was amazed he was getting every one of them right.

I guess you could say its a premonition test of sorts since socios tend to see certain kinds of scenarios and events unfold a few steps ahead of the rest which most certainly aids you all in your manipulation skills.