Being a sociopath doesn’t automatically make someone a genius at killing. I like it too.ĭon’t believe the movies about us. The clerk is a pale young man who looks like he suffered a terrible haircut nine months ago and decided to never try again.Įveryone likes to be told they are right, because that means someone else is deliciously, fantastically wrong, and that is a joy that never gets old. It’s easy to turn a profit when you have no self-doubt. Most of us are just trying to get through the day, like aliens living secretly among humans. We lie and manipulate and take advantage, but usually that just makes us great at business.

It was scary to know the truth, yes, but not nearly as frightening as ignorance… later research at the county library assured me that most people like me don’t grow up to be killers. That first time I read about sociopaths, I felt filled up with a bright light that was equal parts terror and joy.

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