What eerie moment made you realize 'this person is a psychopath'?

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[kimhohlmayer]

Hamsters are wonderful pets and the thought of anyone hurting or killing them is beyond my comprehension.

[lightning_]

The lack of hamster respect is wild. Why are so many people disrespecting poor hamsters?

[BoxOKittens]

I think it was when I was little and my father would take me driving. He liked to do dangerous maneuvers and run red lights. The entire time he'd be gleefully screaming at me that we were gonna die. I believed him every time until I got older. I would just shut down and not react. He'd then usually end the drive by parking in the woods, walking me into the middle, and then telling me "I'm leaving you here and not coming back" again I believed him but never really reacted. He'd eventually come back at night. Honestly there's a lot more but we'd be here all day 😅

[-Juney-]

While psychopaths aren’t by nature bad people, what makes them incredibly dangerous is the fact that they can be bad people with no regrets.
You can absolutely be friends with a psychopath… but it’s probably best to not get *too* close to them. Just to be safe.

The same goes for people with a Machiavellian personality, or tendencies. I’d argue they’re even worse than psychopaths.

Don’t judge a book by its cover, but if you start reading and don’t like it, then put that book back.

[LordMondegrene]

I've known too many psychopaths and sociopaths to list.

Some are family. Some were "friends, " or acquaintances. One of them used to trespass in our yard to catch fish to TORTURE THEM TO DEATH.

... He'd crush them under his tennis shoe, gouge out their eyes with his thumbs. I told him to leave, that this wasn't his yard. Later, our cat vanished for several days, and crawled home half dead.

Neighborhood dogs turned up with spinal injuries, from somebody SWINGING THEM AROUND BY THEIR TAILS.

Later, he and two friends chased me several blocks late at night, ran my bike off the road, and gang stomped me, leaving me with brain damage.

[thebestcentaur]

Jesus. That Barbie and Ken under-the-bed retrieval sounds like a low-level Jigsaw trap.

[wyeteepaleface]

I dated one for 2 years. When it started to go sour, my goldfish brain finally started to connect the dots. This person had literally 2-3 thousand dollars worth of books that were all about teaching empathy. They were into yoga and spiritualism, and I just thought she taught some of it in her classes. Then, I started taking her classes. Realized she didn't even mention any of this stuff, let alone teach it. She was just teaching herself how to fake having empathy. Which is super scary because that means that she is aware that she lacks it and is masking. I ran real fast when I saw the big picture.

[CherrysJubileeJoyfully]

When i realized my mother trafficked me at 2, tried to kill me at 6 weeks, resulted in my father's death when i was 10 weeks, murdered my pets and made me think it was because i "was psychic" and had dreams of them dieing not because she was killing them in the way i would cry to her about my nightmares...

I have a million things i can't say what was first. I realized at 41 my mother was not my best friend and was actually a manipulative monster.

[gidgemo]

The first time I heard about crush videos, I got physically sick. It would take a psychopath to make them and a psychopath to watch them. That much hate for defenseless creatures - or even worse, no emotions at all - is beyond my imagination.

[melissaharris]

you can get a bad vibe with a lot less than a walk up a drive way. I was 11 and this boy at school was 12. I knew immediately he was bad news. Hair stood up on the back of my neck. We didnt say more than 2 words to each other throughout middle and high school. at 22 he was arrested for kidnapping and raping an 11 year-old girl. The only person I know that was surprised, was surprised his older brother didn't do it first

[onlyoneme]

I had a friend who would say the oddest things. One day, she took my two pencils from me while I was drawing, and I held my hand out and laughingly asked for them back.

She stabbed me in the hand with them as hard as possible. I bled like crazy. She laughed.

A while later I had a class with her. Her brother was murdered by someone else, and she told me she was glad he was dead because she got to have all his stuff.

[siqxyre]

My friend’s boyfriend.

Before directly talking to him he was weird… he’s a compulsive liar. He genuinely tried to convince my friend that he was going to die of Crohn’s disease and that there was no treatment and that he was dying as he spoke. Of course, my friend FREAKED out crying to me and I had to comfort him and reassure him that his BF just was “Misinformed”. His boyfriend tried claiming he had a diagnosis but when he elaborated he did not, he just looked up the symptoms online.

I tried making friends with him but… right off the bat there was something extremely wrong. He kept sending me videos of animals being tortured and laughing at them… every single reaction video he sent to me was some form of animal abuse and it made me so severely uncomfortable, that I just snapped and told him to not talk to me again.

Of course, he cried about it to my friend who got pissed off at me and told me that I should have told him I was uncomfortable from the start (How do you expect me to be calm and collected when he sends me animal abuse??? That’s not something that’s even just an opinion of a joke, it’s legitimately disgusting morally). He forced me to apologize to him.

Eventually time passed and things were… decent I thought. We didn’t talk really, I was still extremely uncomfortable, but I didn’t exactly see any signs of him being a danger, even though I felt like something was deeply wrong.

Then my friend told me he SA’ed him, I desperately tried to tell him to get away from him but he refused to listen, and accepted his shitty apology.

His boyfriend faked a suicide attempt later on, claiming he was bleeding out and that he passed out. Yet, it took only 10 minutes for his “Deep Cut” to stop bleeding. I’ve had cat scratches that bleed for longer! Of course he had to do all this shit on call with my friend, and made him feel helpless.

Only recently did my friend ask me something about assault and I realized, that a very good portion of any of their sexual interactions were simply coerced assault. Excuse after excuse to convince my friend that he needed to do it. That his testosterone made him uncontrollable. It was so so fucked up.


And my friend still hasn’t left him, and it fucks me up inside.

[shendisackett]

OMG, the stories about the cats and hamsters and other animals being tortured and murdered are so horrible. I can't begin to comprehend how someone could do that.

[andreasul]

Myself.. I ended up in jail 12 years ago for armed robbery. It dawned on me that I had no regrets and the only thing I was feeling bad for was myself being caught. I didn't and still dosen't care about the victims, then I would force myself to tears during the trial in the countroom and afterwards smile and laugh like nothing ever happened. So I realized that I am severely lacking in terms of emotions, empathy and sympathy for anyone that I don't personally care for. I also swore that, if not for anyone else i'll at least do the right things if possible for my own sake, and stay clear of anything that could make my life harder. I try to do the right things based of what I know to right, not what I feel is right. Cause I don't feel that whatever I do is either right or wrong, but I know it to be so based on common knowledge and logic. But I do find myself slipping from time to time.

[AuntieCreed]

So many stories about kids being psycho, this is why mental health professionals need to take signs seriously no matter what age the patient is.

For real tho, my Mother has been diagnosed with ASPD. She's emotionally stable, doesn't take dumb risks, loves animals and takes no joy in killing them. She has a very small circle of people she cares about. Anyone outside that circle, ... well, she just doesn't care if they live or die. Sociopathy is weird but not as bad as Psychopathy.

[labyrinthgirl]

I have no idea if my brother is a psychopath or a sociopath, but the way he used to laugh when he would hit me, or twist my skin between his hands, or bend my fingers back as if he was trying to break them, or sit on me to suffocate me, or any other physical abuse he'd put me through, was frightening.

[jaimepepinbenner]

For me, when I was first divorcing my ex, it was when he made a comment that he believed we WERE a happy couple "if we didn't have the kids." Something in me went so cold over the way he said it. He is of course an avid hunter with tons of weapons. He remarried a woman with 4 kids, and she's all the submissive doormat he ever wanted. My daughter tells me the wife is miserable, so i know it might not last long, but as long as he has her he has left me alone. I feel bad for her but also feel safer while she's in the picture, it's a shit situation all around.

[theconfusedvampire]

Story 24: This guy sounds exactly like my old friend from high school. She pretended to like people because having friends is "normal". She definitely was sadistic, but, only in fiction because: "I'm not stupid enough to do that for real. I want to find a place where I can live alone away from everyone else when I'm an adult. If I get arrested I'll having to live with hundreds of people for the rest of my life." She was completely emotionless in general, but, sometimes felt very waterdown versions of joy or annoyance, those two were all her emotions. She loved to talk about monsrers she invented to k*** people in creative ways. I was the only person she "liked", but, "liked" is a strong word. I guess it was more "intrigued", because, I didn't react negatively to anything about her psychopathy. She's not hurting anyone and wasn't planning to, so, who cares? She just wanted to write horror and be left alone. I'm autistic, so, it didn't occur to me to care if no one was getting hurt. 🤷🏻

[lindabirkes-lance]

I have seen the video of Stephen McDaniel being interviewed as the reporter said, "A body has been found."
I was a year ahead of a guy in grade school. He gave everyone the creeps. Long story short, after a few incidents, he is in prison for a long time now.

[andrediamond]

I think the exact medical term is ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder). It is known colloquially as psycopathy or sociopathy BUT there are many differences but one key difference from what I've been able to tell.

For the most part, psycopaths are born and sociopaths are made. It's likely that it's usually a bit of both nature and nurture in most cases.

Other differences include:
-Sociopaths are more impulsive and unstable, also more likely to be involved in criminal behaviour (although psycopaths are famously highly represented in the serial killer population). Psychopaths tend to be more calculating and less impulsive
-While psycopaths feel NO empathy, sociopaths usually have some capacity for empathy (it is just significantly reduced)