A 24-year-old guy described himself in an Internet forum: He doesn’t feel emotion, is an excellent liar, becomes bored quickly, and experiences an adrenalin rush when deceiving or angering someone else. He asks, is he a sociopath?
I’d answer yes. The post is an interesting insight into how a disordered young man perceives himself and others.
Read Self-diagnosing sociopathy on the Dr. Robert forum.
aussiegirl
Aw shucks Oxy! I feel and warm and mushy now…. xx
It’s FREEZING here – not the snowy kind of freezing you guys get, but still icy bitey wind-blowing-right-through-your-bones kind of cold. Big storms yesterday, gale force winds, thunder that shook the house and lots of lightning. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I am glad of the rain but have to admit that I almost went outside last night around midnight with a torch to check my chookies. The silly things wont use any shelter, they prefer to perch in the orange trees. I thought I would find them all drowned this morning, but they are just fine and dandy.
I have no intention of disappearing from LF – I’ve just been really ill and soooooooooooooooo tired again lately. The stupid Fibro has had me mixing my words up and slurring my speech and struggling to describe things again lately. I haven’t been like that since I was diagnosed last year; for the first few weeks that I was like it, I actually worried it was early-onset dementia of some kind. At least this time around I am not panic-stricken every time my mouth and brain aren’t on speaking terms….
Not a teacher per se Oxy – I’m an Education Assistant. Kind of an over-evolved version of the old-style “teacher’s aide”. We do much of the same work with the kids but are paid a fraction of a teacher’s salary, as we do not have the same level of qualifications as they do.
You will definitely get to hear (read) the “rest of the story”. The end is very much in sight now, as far as the court case goes.
I’m not sure that once that’s over, he has anything else he can play with. He has already tried –
1. to have me sacked from my job – didn’t work
2. to have me excommunicated from my spiritual group – didn’t work
3. to slander me to my friends – didn’t work
4. to make me homeless – hasn’t worked so far and is highly unlikely to.
Short of burning my house down or killing me and/or all of my animals, what else is there for him to do?
So – I wait for it to be over.
Louise
BBE:
Yeah, that was all too bizarre. Wow. How long were you two together?
Ox Drover
Dear Aussiegirl,
Well tell me what a chookie is? Chickens?
I think I could stand some cold weather right now! LOL Summer is only a few days started on the calendar, but it is a month old with the weather being HOT and DRY here….US has had horrible storms this year and tornadoes (whirl winds) all over the place and in ODD places that don’t usually have that kind of storm. Many people killed, and floods as well. Now the DRY and HOT.
Well, don’t get paranoid, but be cautious GF, if he runs out of other things to do he may try number 4….they are capable of anything!
I am glad that you are able to go back to work a bit though, that will help you get your pegs back under you.
Keep in mind that depression and PTSD as well as fibro also cause short term memory problems and pain, and just cause you got one of those three problems doesn’t mean you don’t have the others as well. Research is showing that the trauma (emotional and physical) that we have had literally chemically changes the brain and physically changes the connections between the neurons.
I felt literally RETARDED after the plane crash and stayed that way for months, only very slowwwwwwly getting any better and it will be 7 years this july since the crash and 4 years since the “summer of chaos” and I still have ST memory problems and focus problems….I am considerably better than I was at first but not even close to where I was before the crash.
It was hard to be patient with myself (and still is to a degree) but I’m getting better at treating myself well for my ST memory problems. I know it can be frustrating and especially when I am talking to someone and there is a word I can’t find, or I tell a story twice to the same person.
I would go back to work in a heart beat if I could, not only for the money but for what it would do for me. Unfortunately at my age and with the ST memory problems, not gonna happen.
Give your woolly critters a pet on the head for me and I’ll tell my Heeland coos your critters said “hello” –mine are docked in the pond like so many ships lined up against the shore during the hot days.
aussiegirl
Ox –
Yes, “chooks” is slang for “chickens”; and as I am a soppy thing, I call them “chookies”.
I’m so glad that none of those nasty tornadoes came your way – it’s been so sad watching it all on the news : (
My PTSD HAS been yukky again the past few weeks and I think there’s a direct link between that and my temporary “speech impediments”. It’s so disheartening when you think you are over that bit of it and then it comes back to get you. On the up side, at least I know that it will eventually pass, because I’ve already had that happen once before; I just try to focus on the fact that I won;t always be like this. xx
Ox Drover
Aussie,
I actually STUTTER sometimes and I have never done that before. It is llike stage fright almost if I am talking to a stranger…it is frustrating though!
Eden
Honestly, to me, this 24 year-old person sounds to have taken his shpeal straight from a book that lists the characteristics of a Psychopath. Period.
aussiegirl
Oxy –
Yep. Me too. Despite having had such lovely enunciation all of my life. I was petrified until I learned it was part of the PTSD and also that you can have periods of it with Fibro.
Now when it happens, I can at least laugh it off.
Ox Drover
Yea, Eden, that is kind of what I was thinking too….it just sounded too pat. Not that he might not actually BE one, I just don’t think he or any P that I have personally known would “label”themselves that or actually SEE what they are. But, I haven’t known every one in the world who is a P so maybe this guy is another Sam Vaknin. LOL
lesson learned
Oxy,
You may not be able to go back to work in exactly the same venue as before………..
But have you ever thought about TEACHING? Even with the ST, etc?
At a community college perhaps? We have several retired Nurses and docs who teach at our Community College?
LL
Eden
Yes, Ox! I concur. They don’t/cannot see it that precisely.