Oh, wait, no, I’m not, but I’m really sick and tired of
everyone even mentioning the term. I was reading an article in Psychology Today
(one that is like a year old) where this person says that as many as 1 in 4
people are sociopaths. I don’t give a shit fi you have a PhD in every science
known to man, that’s just a bullshit
statistic. Sociopath, for one, is a term that has more or less lost its meaning
and is apparently thrown toward anyone who doesn’t give a shit about someone
else’s bullshit, i.e. apparently 25% of the world. By that definition, I’m a
sociopath, you reading this and enjoying it probably makes you a sociopath, and
all of those people you meet once who don’t give a damn about you, well,
they’re certainly sociopaths.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, leave clinical
diagnosis to professionals who don’t rely on a checklist of symptoms after they
have evaluated someone for ten minutes. It’s not that fucking simple and it
annoys me to no end how many people come to me asking if so and so has some
personality disorder. Just assume they don’t, and your assumption will probably
be correct every time. My boyfriend blows
up on me all the time; I think he’s bipolar. Stop being such a cunt when he
needs you off his case. My girlfriend
killed my rabbit and boiled it on the stove. Well, okay, maybe she should
seek help. But the very nature of such things aren’t readily apparent.
You don’t take one look at someone and say, oh, they have
this and this wrong with them. I’ve worked with a schizophrenic for years and
up until recently, had no clue. Oh, and he doesn’t hear voices or have multiple
personalities. Imagine that. I have interacted with plenty of people who I knew
had mental health issues, but most of them spoke to me about it because of my
background in psychology. But I also know people who pretend they have
something wrong with them to cover up what they fear others might see as a
shortcoming; there is nothing wrong with them, aside from a little social
anxiety. You probably won’t know someone’s a sociopath until they’re long gone,
and even then, your claim that they are is probably not true, and they were
probably just an asshole who just got tired of your shit, and then moved on
without problem.
