In the two first articles I described the reactions towards me as a psychopath, on the Internet from normal people and from other psychopaths as I have observed them. In this article I will describe the reactions from sociopathic people.
Sociopaths will often be slightly less forward coming at first than both neurotypical (normal) people and psychopaths, but after a while they often mistake me for being one of them. This is understandable because our two minorities have a lot in common in terms of outward behavior, at least in the more superficial sense.
Many socipaths are both intelligent and cautious people, so they don’t jump straight into befriending me or straight out challenging me. They will sometimes – with caution – show me with little signs here and there that they’re open for a friendly exchange, and that can work really great for as long as I decide to stick with what I know is “okay” and am alert to the specific ‘moral code’ of the individual person. Sociopaths usually have strong moral codes, but they don’t necessarily follow some code made by a group, many have their very personal code of honor and sense of ‘right and wrong’, and if they’re intelligent there’s great logic to the way they think.
It isn’t until talk falls upon certain topics that have emotional or moral value to them that the profound differences between sociopathy and psychopathy becomes evident and they see I’m not “one of the guys”. When they realize I’m not like them they’ll usually resend me for not having moral standards, for having no “pride”, no “line beyond which one should never go”, it depends on where their individual lines lie, but some topics tend to be persistent like f.x. ‘Raping and/or molesting children is NOT okay!’.
Some may still retain a certain respect or “goodwill” and will debate with me, whereas others may cut me completely off or even leave the forum when I’m present.
In the cases where I’ve told I’m a psychopath they may think I’m trying to make a prank, or they’ll think I’m trying to pose as a ‘tuff dude”, but they’ll generally conclude I’m like them. Few sociopaths have the curiosity or sense of “awe” or slight fear that neurotypicals and most other minorities have, and if they don’t know about the clinical neuro-psychological differences between our two groups they’ll not really see any particular difference – with the exception of the absence of moral codex that I will display with time.
There’s another minor difference that I’ve noticed from time to time: Many sociopaths have their ability to create attachments to a few beings intact, an ability that includes animals. Thus I have often debated with sociopaths who have told me about their cat or their dog and said f.x. “I’d do anything for my dog!”. If I happen to tell about one of my youthful follies with being not very nice to a few animals, that can turn an otherwise very tough, hardened criminal against me, and it doesn’t matter if I afterwards tell them it only happened very, very few times.
Whether or not I befriend a sociopath, they’ll usually take my being a psychopaths as something that doesn’t give reason for any special excitement – or treatment.
Where other psychopaths usually do not comment at all, or sometimes decide to test me, the sociopaths are the ones who are most likely to just take me being a psychopath for what it is: Me being a psychopath and just another guy who happened to stop by.
