Ask a Psychopath - Would you say you’re dangerous?

Would you say you're a dangerous person?
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
by M.E. Thomas
Available in Paperback and Kindle

[c_mendes]

Thing is, you don’t have to be violent to be dangerous

[elizabethsedai]

Tell me you're a psychopath without telling me you're a psychopath.... "I might be dangerous to certain people, through no fault of my own."

[goodtoGoNow]

Psychopath says "I don't consider myself dangerous" and then goes on to describe a gray rage where they are going to correct someone who feels too safe.

[msharic]

“I’m not a regular psychopath, I’m a cool psychopath”

[sWrd_Master]

She just sounds and looks like the head of an HR department.

[hellboy]

I love how she talks about psychopathy with the very calm background music you could use for job training videos.

[inukprasad]

i love how everyone in the comments suddenly turns into body language analysts in videos like this

[mariastevens]

Her lack of scale in a normal person's response to anger, etc., is one of the biggest obstacles my brother (a psychopath) has. The difference is violence isn't his first choice because he just doesn't care, though he has no issue engaging in it. He just goes way overboard when he does.

[westbrad]

So, "gray rage" would be the PRECISE thing people fear about Psychopaths

[kevinel]

The elevator music in the background takes this to a whole other level.

[artofameera]

"I don't think I'm dangerous" but also... "I will got to the enth degree to make sure you realise you have no authority and you're not

[shaunhunterit]

She speaks of her "intended victim" like this was just a chat about her next holiday

[PromptStreamer]

I spent time with a psychopath about a year ago and it went very badly. I really value that this channel is helping the world understand this condition better. I still have not figured out how to reconcile the bottomless moral repulsion as well as fear one experiences from a psychopath, with the realization that they are born this way and in a way it’s not their fault. From that perspective hating them seems irrational; but it’s not clear what else is to be done. Avoid them? Friendship, trust, understanding with them is impossible. They only live to deceive. They don’t have the normal emotions or reward mechanisms other people have. They are never actually invested in the relationship as a friendship, they’re just calculating a way to use you. Thus, it is almost antithetical to try to empathize with a psychopath; empathy implies a degree of acknowledgment of someone’s inner humanity; it implies you recognize the fundamental good in someone. But there is none in psychopaths. That was a hard lesson for me to learn.

[GrowWildOutdoors]

The way she tells stories is a perfect demonstration of her lacking empathy. She is dissociated from the emotional experience that her actions inspire in other people, and doesn't consider those people in her decision-making - she is wholly self-interested, which is why it can be great (for a time) to emotionally enmesh with someone like this. They can 'set us free' from all worry until we see the reality of who they are.

Humans are insanely complicated.

[I_have_Aquestion]

One of THE most psychotic statements/ideas I have ever heard, “I am going to correct someone about their false sense of safety”. Wow! …and said with a smile and a chuckle.

[chriz]

if a psychopath tells you they re not dangerous or violent, its the last thing i believe

[halcooper]

“I’m only 5 foot four” makes it seem like if she was more of a physical presence she would act differently

[mmechrizma]

It's very apparent she is honestly expressing her misunderstanding of how many humans think and feel. She does not understand empathy because one reason to not do something violent or hurtful that many people factor in is to not want someone else to feel the negative consequences that would come from a certain behavior or action. Not wanting another to experience that pain is a huge reason to not do something negative, regardless of being caught or worrying about judgements of others.

[star_bourn]

this is total conjecture but it feels like the reason her smile is so unsettling is because she's smiling for herself and only herself. she isn't smiling to connect, but more than anything she isn't smiling to communicate. it's just muscles moving.

[vaska]

For people who find it interesting or telling that she chose law as her profession: research shows that sociopaths and psychopaths gravitate to careers in

1. the police
2. medicine
3. law

in that order.