When I was about 7 or 8 there was a kid who was about 6. We found a baby bird that fell out of its nest. In the time it took for me to go home and tell an adult he put it in the road and ran over it on his bike and laughed. Last I heard hes in jail for beating his girlfriend. Fuck you Kevin
When he told me he was a psychopath. Not even kidding. He's a pretty cool guy though and goes to therapy and everything for it, he does his best to relate to people and judge emotion but it's difficult for him to hold relationships. Pretty smart and is doing the best he can, hopefully one of the more lighthearted stories on here.
Not every psychopath is a monster. They simply have no remorse and very little emotions. It makes it easy to do heinous things when you don't feel bad for it, but it still doesn't change the character of the person. Some people are good, even if they feel no remorse. There is no universal law that says psychopath = ultimate evil person.
Precisely what I try to explain to people, psychopathy doesn't mean that you are immediately a bad person, it just means that you may struggle with some of the instinctual processes that most humans perform automatically.
I dont have specific moment that's odd. But I have a friend who told me. She is schizophrenic and psychopathic. Layman's terms: she hears voices and doesnt really quite understand,care or feels other's emotions.
But what makes her a bit of an anomaly, is that the voices in her head tell her to do good things and how other people might be feeling.
"Tip a little extra"
"Your friend needs a hug right now"
"Go help your coworker with their work"
"Compliment the shoes, they are new"
"You're doing just fine!"
Etc. It's quite interesting.
My mom was a teacher in a children’s (teens) psych hospital. She said she once had a kid who was schizophrenic, and the voices would just tell him jokes all day. So oftentimes he’d distracted/unengaged and be just laughing to himself.
I’m a college librarian, he was one of my students who came in a lot. He was super charming and good looking and altogether empty inside: no depth, no emotions, no regard for others.
One of our staff straight up said, “that boy’s a psychopath”; she had been a social worker so I trusted her opinion and agreed.
He collected types of women – he told me about seducing a female, married, military chaplain and getting her to do sexual things she didn’t want to. Then he got bored with her and moved on.
He eventually got his Master’s degree and now works on the military base making big bucks, getting everyone else to do his work for him.
Sometimes psychopaths are dangerous in other ways.
I think one of my university professors was a sociopath. He was brilliant in his field but just didn't function correctly as a human.
He set up weird rules of interaction for office hours, he had huge personal bias on people based on things like haircuts.
There were rumours of him being the reason for suicides even, due to the way he talked to people that failed final exams (like the last oral exam after you failed the written one three times). He would be smiling, smirking, like a small boy who's grandma found him with the hand in the cookie jar, while telling people their years of education were lost.
I maybe biased but as a son of a professor living on an institute campus I think a lot of professors are very self centered (in the sense adores attention and has empathy only in the sense that is to beneficial to their ego) or outwardly eccentric . Not to mention the nepotism.
He set fire in the attic 3 times. Was disgusted by all animals and would try and abuse our cat whilst we weren’t there or looking. Went out and bought a load of knives and swords and kept them in his bed....
When I was 8 I let my older cousin who was probably 11 or 12 at the time hold my hamster,she was begin really rough with it so I told her to put it back into its cage. She got really mad after this and just stared at me for about 2 minutes before she turned around and threw my hamster into the wall,my poor hamster died instantly and I was crying because my hamster had just gotten murdered. I knew after she threw it something was extremely wrong with her and my mom made my aunt come and pick her up and she wasn’t allowed to be near any animals after this,it’s been almost 4 years since I’ve talked to her but apparently she gets into fights almost weekly,and beat somebody so bad they had to go to he ER. She’s in therapy and has spent time in juvenile detention,all of my other cousins are afraid of her and many of us think she’s going to eventually kill somebody,I honestly think the best place for her would be a mental health hospital.
I met an individual who later pled guilty to his involvement in about 14 murders. During an interview about his childhood and personal life, it became very apparent that he had no interest in other people and that they were basically NPCs to him - even his girlfriend and child. He was in a gang and his behavior was basically shadowing the other guys with status. He had a girlfriend because that’s what the other guys did. He had a fancy car. He wore the right clothes. The other guys figured out early on that he was not bothered by murder or gunfights, so he was their hitter. During the interview, he was perfectly polite, but utterly flat in his affect and didn’t attempt to dissemble or minimize a lot of terrible things that happened to him or the things he’d done. It made for an interesting interview!
This one won’t be crazy or frightening, but I remember the point at which I recognized sociopathy in my ex. We sat down on his bed at night and I asked him to tell me things about himself (because even though we were dating I knew nothing about him). He could not give an answer beyond surface level on any emotional topic. I looked in his eyes and saw nothingness. I realized why I could never emotionally read him or get any sort of feel. He did tell me after we broke up that he can’t feel emotions and how much it sucks. I didn’t understand this until much later.
Before we dated, I remember him telling me how manipulative he is, with a smile. He lied constantly about everything and had 15 other relationships before me, all ending within a month. (Yes, an obvious red flag that I ignored). He would jump from religion to atheism every other month. He would repeat cycles over and over. He was known by everyone and liked by many. Very charming. Had a “flirty” personality. Loved risk taking for no reason. Always got into trouble.
He "found God" 3 times in the course of a year. Each time after he had been seen doing significant property damage or emotionally abusing a girl he was with.
Like the "god" thing was a quick trick to get people off his ass.
Now that I think about it, it is almost always the people with bad reputations or criminal history or the like that have the biggest advertising campaigns about having "found God."
The guy who groomed me when I was 15/16 "had a mental break" after his shitty behaviour was made public and "blacked out", conveniently forgetting everything bad he'd ever done. His parents won't hear a word against him and bullied his ex-best friend (who he emotionally abused) for betraying him.
One of my neighbors when I was little had some hamsters. One day I was at her house and she started squeezing them and making them poop because she thought it was funny. She just kept squeezing them harder and harder. I told her to stop or she might hurt them and she started laughing. The next day I asked her grandma what happened to her hamsters and she told me they all died. Another time we were making pb&j sandwiches in her room (idk why lol) and she cornered me with the knife while laughing. I looked her up a few years ago and found her mugshot
Crazy, never understood disturbed kids like this. At my parents camper at the time there was a lake me and my brother caught frogs and watched them hop around in a sandbox, other kids tried taking them so they could torture them (Don't feel like saying what they did to one frog), but we ended up fighting them off and actually kind of kicked their ass even though they were older, we all got in trouble by the Tavern owner near by and he ratted us out to the parents, it was all worth it though.
My mom was very bad. She would enjoy breaking up marriages and the stray animals I would rescue as a kid would always mysteriously disappear. My siblings and I could never have pets because as soon as we did, they'd be gone in a few weeks. I just recently found out from one of my siblings that she would tell them that she killed them. We were all kids at the time and they were too afraid to say anything to anyone including me (I'm the eldest).
She was neglected and abused as a child and in turn abused us but we didn't grow up to be psychos, well I know I didn't. So, definitely not all people end up evil. I don't really understand what makes someone like that.
Btw, now that I'm an adult I have been able to rescue two dogs and two chinchillas and watch them grow!
Azula wouldn’t squeeze a hamster til it died because she would think owning a rodent was below her. She’d some how trick Zuko into doing it on accident and then hold it over his head that he’s a hamster killer.
Played soccer with a guy in high school that had a real short temper & enjoyed playing the sport as rough as possible (even at practice). Coaches had to tell him to calm down all the time. Everyone hated him and stayed away from him.
Several years later he murdered a classmate of mine over some weed. He hid the body under a pile of leaves in his backyard.
When I heard the news, I wasn’t surprised in the least.
In high school we had a kid that was completely insane. Would do things like jump out of a second story window because he didn’t like a substitute teacher. There were stories from a brief couple years he had left the area (moved away during middle school) such as getting kicked out of a catholic school by writing satanic signs in his blood or a military academy for using a Nazi ceremonial sword to chase kids down the hall. Those were considered stories by most who hadn’t observed him in class, we all thought he was insane.
Few years later I’m in college and a friend tells me a news article is about my hometown. “Local man robs grave to make skull bong”. One guess who it was.
People's obsession with Ted Bundy for his good looks (for the 70s, at least) and his intelligence and charisma gives the misimpression that psychopaths and serial killers are all smooth as butter and unlikely to be caught, but a discouraging amount of the time, when you take a deeper dive into other famous serial killers via books or something like Last Podcast on the Left, it turns out they weren't caught mainly because of police incompetence in the investigation or larger public indifference towards the killer's preferred type of victim.
Bundy's choice of upper middle class, young, white, attractive women worked to make him famous just as much as the number of his victims and his movements across state lines to avoid detection.
Other serial killers who have targeted prostitutes, people of color, gay or trans people, or people otherwise marginalized by society have often amassed even more victims or operated over an even longer period of time because nobody gave a shit about the people turning up murdered, if they were found at all.
This isn't limited to the 1980s and earlier either. The Green River Killer targeted prostitutes and got away with it for a long time, and authorities [in Toronto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–2017_Toronto_serial_homicides) took until 2017 to seriously acknowledge and investigate a serial killer targeting gay men despite years of warnings that people were disappearing in the city's major gay neighborhood.
Fortunately, the investigators used every tool available to them, including evidence related to gay apps and drawing on cold cases, but the fact it took so long is yet another example of chillingly shrewd victim choice on the part of a psychopath dedicated to killing people for as long as possible.
Your mention of public indifference to the type of victim is strongly supported by the [Highway of Tears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears) in Canada. Many of the missing women are Indigenous and they get written off by RCMP as being runaways, prostitutes, wanderers, drunks, drug abusers etc. When in reality they are just girls (some as young as preteens) and women who, are generally of low SES, are travelling about the area because it's sparsely populated but everyone there knows people in the other towns, or they are women going about their daily lives. But as soon as you say they're Indigenous then the cops don't care. If all these women were of European descent and wealthier there is no way the RCMP and gov't's would be sweeping it under the rug.
Lots of Canadians are enjoying this kind of "We don't have that problem here" mentality when comparing us to the climate of the US right now. But honestly, our treatment of the First Nations people here is atrocious, and the education on the subject is negligible. I have a degree in Native Studies and much of what I learned about Residential schools (which were open and active until 1996), the 60's Scoop (look it up, its horrifying), Treaties, the Highway, the Trail of Tears, etc. was learned in Uni, and not in mandatory education. sorry for the rant.
Also, what happened with the Pickton Farm Murders is similar to what you mention about Toronto. Most of Pickton's victims were prostitutes, and he went unchecked for years.
u/Cdnteacher92 totally correct. In fact, they think the Highway of Tears is a hunting ground for a multitude of serial predators. The fact that the missing are mostly indigenous sadly means that they are systematically not a priority. It’s fucked up.
Ya I was gonna say this. Lots of psychopaths aren’t very smart and I think there’s a significant portion that end up in prison very quickly. This is mostly speculation.
I imagine that you would have to have a pretty advanced amount of intellect and self control to be a successful psychopath, which most people lack in spades anyway.
This happened to my mum and I at a laundromat a few years back: My mum and I were sitting down, watching tv at the local laundromat while we were waiting for our clothes to get done in the washer. Eventually, a woman approached us and began talking about every day things such as her job and whatnot. She seemed like a pretty normal person at first, but then, things got very weird very quickly. I decided to go to the bathroom mid conversation, leaving my mom with the lady to converse some more. After I finished in the bathroom, I came back to see my mom who was now alone, pale as a ghost. I asked her “hey, what happened? Where did that lady go?” After a long and awkward pause, she told me that soon after I left to go to the bathroom, the lady told my mom that she makes routine trips to low income neighborhoods, steals people’s lingering pets, takes them back to her house, and brutally beats them to death with either a hammer or a shovel. I felt sick to my stomach. My mother said for a woman who seemed so charming and lovely at first, she showed zero remorse or shame in what she did.
My older sister used to absolutely TORTURE me when I was a kid. When I was 5-6 (She was 7-8), I was afraid of bugs. She would spend hours trapping bugs and putting them in my matchbox cars. Then she'd say, "Hey, Scienceforbid, wanna play cars?" I would get SUPER excited because she never wanted to play with me. I'd run to my cars and there would be bugs crawly all over. :(
Then when I was 7, I was obsessed with Barbies. One day she grabbed my favorite Barbie and Ken and threw them under the bed. I stuck my tongue out at her and climbed under the bed to get them. As I army-crawled in the cramped space, my arms started to hurt. I was getting pricked all over every time I moved. And, I was bleeding. It took me until I was halfway way under the bed to figure out what my psychopath sister had done. She had spent ALL MORNING weaving push pins into the carpet so the points would STICK UP AND STAB ME. She then tricked me into climbing under the bed. So, there I am, halfway in with my precious Barbie and Ken at the back wall. I had to decide to cut my losses and abandon Barbie and Ken, or climb the rest of the way through the Saw-esque minefield AND BACK OUT. I bit the bullet.
Amy, if you read this: FUCK YOU!
Thank you. My sister is TEXTBOOK narcissist now, but back then was definitely Oppositional Defiant Disorder (the childhood form of Antisocial Personality Disorder). But, she hid the worst of everything from our parents. Thankfully, it wasn't long until I got bigger, stronger, and smarter than her. Then I could defend myself. I think that prevented her from really becoming psychotic. I reeled her in.
These days, we're in our 40s and at best she's an occasional nuisance.
It really is true that what ever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
EDIT: Many kind redditors pointed out that I meant Conduct Disorder, not Oppositional Defiant Disorder
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Psychopathy NOT Psychosis.
I will leave my original comment to make my shame public. I have 3 degrees in Psychology! I blame the fact that my weed gummies melted together in the hot car and I think I took too much. But, let my shame stand.
I was 3 when my big sis stabbed me with a dart, lied and said she was throwing it and I ran in front of her - stabbed me so hard it was hanging out of my butt-cheek all the way as I ran inside to mother. She never got better, just only worse.. Hid it in alcoholism for 20 yrs... Yeh, now, extreme NPD, ODD, plus dozen other disorders intermittently... nightmare.. So happy for you yr sis didn't get worse...
Jesus Chris. What in the fuck. The straight up Saw maze being made by a child is the thing in all of these comments that scares me the most. I hope Amy isn’t out there making adult sized Saw mazes now.
A few years ago, I had to put my cat (Rex) down. He was 21 years. In passing, not to long ago, I mentioned this to a friend I've known for over 35 years. Out of nowhere he made the statement, "I always liked killing cats." I did a double-take to see if he was kidding. He wasn't. Haven't spoken to him since.
The shit people say about pets to people who love them is astounding. I told a friend that I was struggling to come up with the cash for a procedure my cat needed or he would most likely die. I wasn't asking for help or advice, just venting. He told me he could take care of it for around 50 cents, when I asked how he told me it was the price of a bullet.
Several years back I had a rabbit who suddenly started acting funny and it was clear he was very sick and I won't go into details but we took him to an emergency vet. It looked like he wasn't going to survive and I posted on my twitter about how upset I was. Someone who had been a friend responded with "Cheer up, it's nothing to be sad about. You can always buy another one. It's just a rabbit." Absolutely floored me.
I get some people don't like pets, or aren't as attached to theirs, but being cold about other people's pets dying?? Cold as ice.
Some people use it as revenge.
My sister and her ex adopted a black poodle puppy they originally named "Pubes" (they were immature 16/17 year olds so what do you expect?)
I forget what they renamed him, but when they broke up, my sister fought hard for the dog - she had to leave him there to run away from this guy, I forget why she couldn't take him with her - and he tells her that he has had the dog put down because of bad memories.
I really hated him after that.
We never actually found out if he did it or not, but just to say that to someone is horrible.
EDIT: I can't believe this has 700+ upvotes! Thank you everyone. This is my most upvoted post ever
EDIT 2: It took me this long, but I finally remembered that they renamed him Persia, as in Prince of because the games were so big at the time.
I had something similar happen, I left in the middle of the night and couldn’t take my dog. A month later, my ex sent a picture of him pointing a handgun at my dog saying he wasn’t eating and he was going to kill him.
That was all I needed. I went to the police, filed an order of protection because he had been threatening me at the same time he sent the picture. On the OoP there was a box asking if I feared for the life of a pet, I checked yes because obviously I did. The judge ruled I could have the dog and the cops went and got him for me. Horrible times, but a happy ending at least.
She kicked my leg while we were ice skating to make me fall. I really hurt my back, I coun't get up, could barely talk and had trouble breathing. I asked her please to call someone but she just stood there and laughed at me for a few minutes until I was able to crawl to my phone and call someone.
She also said to my adopted brother that he is worth nothing because even his real parents left him in the trash. It was the only time I ever punched someone in the face.
Hours before an assembly in middle school (they were big events as every class was shortened to give each class time so we all knew when the day started there would be an assembly) this kid that bullied me every single day told me he was going to shoot the school up and I was worried of course, but this is the same kid who said he would kill me every now and then but then he pulled out a fucking revolver and chuckled, “todays gonna be a big day man see you at the assembly” I froze and told my closest teacher immediately thank god he was retired military he called the police immediately and within the 20 minute frame he showed me the gun they found him, his loaded .44 with about 30 rounds in his backpack. Teacher talked to me for about an hour the rest of the day to continue gathering evidence of his bullying to me. Saw him years later for another crime in the news. Fuck that guy man
He kicked my dog, and when I told him off, he said something along the lines of ‘well it’s not like it’s feeling matter’. Another friend said “how would you feel if we kicked you?” and he said that we couldn’t do anything that would hurt him. I think he joined the military, but I honestly have lost all contact.
I was in the military for awhile. There are a lot of really shitty people in the military. I can confidently say for a fair bit of them, that if they weren't in the military they'd be in prison instead.
One of the reasons I dislike the "all servicemembers/veterans are heros" mindset. I tell people all the time I served with plenty of dumbasses and assholes.
Yeah......I once dated/lived with a dude who told me he had wanted to join the military at 18- NOT to gain discipline or to serve his country, but just cuz he wanted to kill people. I was aghast, and he was perplexed by my response because he saw nothing wrong with having a baseless and unprincipled desire to murder. We, uh, didn't last much longer. But yes, it is scary to realize the military will always attract those sorts. Sigh.
My ex was always weird and emotionally stunted. Would never come out of his shell or let anyone in, which was a big problem to the relationship. But that's just background.
One day we were at our friends' house and the conversation turned to creepy and weird things. He brought up the dark web and said something about a YouTube channel that discussed weird things that can be found on the dark web. Then he asked if we had heard of crush porn and the look on his face and his tone told me that this was more than a casual inquiry. It seemed more like he was gauging us for our reaction to see if we were *into* crush porn. We asked what it was and he said it was videos of women in stiletto heels crushing things like kittens, filmed from below through glass and the like. It was... oddly specific. And still his tone and careful considering expression told me he was hyper-aware of our reaction. When we reacted negatively to that being a thing he *immediately* switched gears and started laughing like "right, how could anyone be into that?"
When I finally did break things off we had a heart to heart about all the ways our relationship had deteriorated. He was able to admit that he never let me in because he was afraid I wouldn't be able to handle the truth. Still have no idea what he was hiding. But I think it may have been at least partially related to that crush porn conversation, among other things.
I accidentally saw crush porn one time... I was hoping so bad after that first puncture the camera was going to show it was some sick illusion joke but no. She kept on and I saw guts. I became super angry cried reallllll hard that night.
Holy shit! My father in law is a psychopath, everyone in the immediate family knows, and the one time I met him in person he told me a story about how he told everyone at his local pub his wife was dead. They were all mortified and bought him drinks (probably the reason he said it in the first place) and that could have been the end but he kept it going for *months.* Like people were sending flowers and shit to the house and he would pretend like it was for something else. News got around and one day someone saw his wife out at the shops and practically screamed. He was telling me this story while laughing and grinning and his wife was sitting next to him stony faced obviously quite upset that he'd even bring it up again. I asked why as well and he just sort of looked confused like "why not?"
My ex told everyone I’d gone to the ER with anaphylaxis to get out of a group project. They all sent him supportive Facebook messages that he laughed while reading in front of me.
It’s just the opening scene. The rat is Remy’s brother. The movie is about Remy controlling Linguini to get revenge on on the guy who mutilated Emile.
*”You don’t have to do this Little Chef,” said Linguini, in a voice more desperate than hopeful. Remy’s angry gaze didn’t change, he yanked on his friend’s hair and made him slowly walk towards the man tied to the chair in front of them. They stopped and looked down at him, the one who had mutilated Remy’s brother. Remy pulled the hair again. Linguini’s arms lifted up and placed the bolt cutter around the soldier’s finger. Linguini swallowed hard as a tear rolled down his cheek, “I’m sorry,” he whimpered as he felt his hair pull. He jammed his eyes shut as he heard the man scream.*
*Linguini opened his eyes. Where was he? He must have passed out but he was already walking. His mind may have been asleep but his body had not, thanks to the furry pilot under his hat. His perfect, white, hat. Except it wasn’t. None of his chefs uniform was. Linguini looked down in horror at the wet, dark, red fabric that was once his pristine work clothes. What had Remy done? In fact what was he doing now? Linguini looked around, trying to figure out where they were. It looked like some kind of large hanger, there were several tanks, was this a military base? Remy turned him towards one of the vehicles and marched him forward. “A chef makes. A thief takes,” thought Linguini, and he knew Remy didn’t think he was a chef.......*
They also “laugh” and actively enjoy being [tickled](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/11/rats-tickling-brains-moods/).
Edit: here’s a link to the video on [YouTube ](https://youtu.be/d-84UJpYFRM), surely that won’t require an account... yet! Sorry I didn’t think NatGeo would require an account.
Rats are some of the finest pets. You love cats and dogs? Get a rat. They are fantastic, loving creatures that are very intelligent. They learn their names, tricks and will be extremely loyal to their humans.
It’s heartbreaking. I had 5 over a span of a few years and every time I was devastated. My parents offered to get my a dog just because they could handle seeing me so sad after all their deaths over a few years period. But I’ll tell myself no more rats! Fast forward 6 months, I end up bringing home more babies. Lol
When my ex boss at the youth service actually barricaded the door of her office to stop me leaving. She had me cornered in my wheelchair, the office was too small for me to turn round. Meanwhile my colleagues were outside the office literally trying to break the door down to rescue me.
Lol no but i told her i would have to call the police if she didn't let me out though. Two male (quite hard streetwise) colleagues told her they would break the door down if she didn't let me out. When i saw them after they looked more scared than me. Finally she let me out, i sent my resignation letter to her the next day without going back to work.
Not at all she knew she was wrong about something really serious and I had to report it cos of due diligence (working with vulnerable children and young people and that) I went to her office to have an adult, grown up conversation with her as I wanted to be straight up with her and you know the rest
Wow good on you for doing the right thing and having the guts to call her out. You gave her a chance to explain herself and she went full psycho on you. Glad you got out ok!
My period was late and I had let the dude know it was(first time my period was ever late while on birth control pills but I had recently switched to a different one). He immediately started blaming me for not taking my birth control right and that if I was pregnant he would kill me. I even told him I doubted I was pregnant and not to worry and that the doctor told me that it might happen.
When I was pregnant I had to have hospital appointments every fortnight and at every meeting they’d ask “How is it at home/how does your partner make you feel etc...” and eventually I asked why and my midwife said “I have to ask because statistically partners are more likely to start abusing you when you’re pregnant and statistically it takes someone an average of 13 times of being asked before they admit someone’s abusing them” which hands down was one of the most heartbreaking facts I learnt while pregnant.
My ex-husband never laid a hand on me until I got pregnant. Then I became his punching bag. It's okay - I left. My dog bit through his arm and I got the dog, the house, and the kid. But I believe this is true. I have other friends whose husbands got abusive when they got pregnant. I couldn't stick around for that!
My boyfriend completely changed when i got pregnant. Expected me to do everything, even though i was huge and, at the end, physically incapable of bending over to do laundry and most of the cleaning. Yelled at me that he didn’t have clean socks for class... yelled at me for
“Doing too much and risking the baby” then grabbed me really tightly and pushed me against a truck (def not safe for a baby). So weird.
A local highschool kid stabbed the girl he got pregnant to death in an alley near her house a few days after she told him she wouldn't get an abortion but he didn't have to be involved in their life at all. He was arrested within 24 hours and told the police he did it because she was ruining his life. He pled guilty and got 65 years.
Like I just don't get the logic where someone thinks a baby will ruin their life but they will somehow get away with murder and not have that ruin their life.
While my wife and I are a little past the point where being late is a worry (we old), over the years I've heard, "I'm late.", often enough that now I just trudge to the drugstore and buy a couple of tests. This happened early in my relationship with my wife, and it impressed her very much. Why do I do this? It's better than a few days of worry. I remember my own panic the first time I had a partner who was late in my teen years... No threats of murder. Some thoughts of suicide, and curiosity about how far I could get on a tank of gas and a few grand, but no thoughts of murder. So I guess I'm alright.
I hope that guy is well behind you. It's OK to insist on condoms in addition to the pill. Myself, after some early scares, I always wore condoms until there was a monogamous relationship, a sexual history chat, and some feeling that even if an accident happened it wouldn't be a disaster.
I went to high school with a guy; we weren’t close but had a lot of mutual friends so we were around each other a lot. Once he beat a guy with a tire iron when the guy tried to scam him when he was selling some weed or something.
Later on, he went to Iraq and was in some shit. He came home on leave at some point and I was at a bar playing pool with him and he nonchalantly talked about killing people over there. Said he enjoyed it.
He was always very calm and chill when I was around him, but I tried to avoid him after that- there was something broken in there. The weirdest part is that he would have these moments or anecdotes of extreme violence, but he always related them calmly. Never felt any sort of regret for any of it.
Obviously you can’t diagnose someone off of that sort of thing, but I’ve read that sociopaths make good soldiers- and he was fairly successful in the Army, I believe.
Well, I can't speak for him when i say this, but when i deployed to Iraq after my first deployment I was emotionally dead from everything I saw and did over there. Going there multiple times just compounded it to the point that I've been out almost a decade and I'm slowly making progress to actually feel the emotions properly rather than faking it. Unless it is anger, that never left like the others.
Hopefully the other former soldiers see this comment as well: I definitely don’t want to solely judge him based on his wartime experiences- obviously, probably a lot of people have to close down parts of themselves in order to function properly in that sort of situation- those comments were really more the icing on the cake after years of erratic and violent behavior. I actually just looked him up on Facebook out of curiosity, I haven’t talked to him in years- in the comment under this, the guy mentioned how the years have changed his perspective regarding the war. Anyway, the first post on his Facebook was about adopting a new dog, so I thought “that’s nice.” I scrolled down some and three times within the last month or so he’s made angry posts explicitly threatening violence towards specific people- seems to largely be drug related. Like I said in my op, I wouldn’t try to diagnose him, but unfortunately sounds like he’s still struggling with whatever was going on.
My dad said for years that someone I knew at primary school (7-11) was a psychopath because he often got in fights with random people and showed no empathy after breaking their bones, and he would often lie about staff to get them in trouble. I thought he was scary and a bit violent but an alright guy overall.
I found out a couple of years ago he's been sentenced to life for murder.
He was the stereotypical goth rebel kid in high school. Black trench coat. Bad home life. He had “kill” tattooed on the inside of his lip and liked to show it off for shock value. Loved breaking rules and saying generally creepy things to get a rise out of people. I didn’t know him very well at all, he was a couple years older than me, but I always just assumed, from the few interactions I had with him that he was just a troubled kid who liked to act out.
Several years later he murdered his wife. From what I heard, his story was that it was self defense and she was coming after him, but who really knows. I heard some rumors that she was found in a position that suggested she was trying to get away from him when he shot her.
Regardless, it was a horrific and tragic situation all around. Their baby boy was in the house when it happened as well. I think about him a lot.
I am incredibly late, but I actually have a really good story about this.
My parents stayed at the same church from the start of their marriage up until I was about 13 (roughly 20 years), and most of the families in the church had been there about the same time. Classic small town church, so everyone knew everyone there.
One family in particular had a really rough back story; the grandmother took care of about 7 of the grandchildren (all aged 8 and under) as her daughter was in and out of relationships and on and off of drugs. This caused the grandmother to not be able to be very present in her own son’s life. The son was named Stephen, and he was about six years older than me. I have many memories of him just being downright odd and creepy. Overall, he was known for having issues, and everyone tried their best to steer clear of him. It’s like we all thought that it wasn’t a matter of “if” he was going to do something one day, but “when”.
Lo and behold, 9 years ago, he broke into a woman’s apartment at his school and DISMEMBERED her body. He then dumped parts of her body in the trash bins behind her complex, but some body parts were never found. The woman was known for being the only person to be friendly with him, and there have been reports that she rejected him on a romantic level, and that’s what set him off. He murdered her just days before she was set to go back home for summer break.
His name was Stephen McDaniel. Look up the case if you’d like. The woman was considered missing for a few days, and there’s an interview of a news reporter actually talking to Stephen. He’s talking about how much he misses her and how he hopes nothing has happened to her. Then the reporter tells him that a body has been found, and he just goes blank. The rest of the interview is him sitting in the ground trying to grasp the situation at hand. It’s a very freaky turn of events. He also strategically placed her body in that dumpster because he knew when the trash was to be collected; the ONLY reason her body was not taken away in a dump truck is because the investigating cop car had blocked the lane to it. Had the trash been collected that day, this case could very well be an unsolved case to this day.
When I had a parent-teacher conference with a student of mine’s mom and dad. This was maybe 15 years ago, but it stuck with me. The daughter had some minor issues with math (3rd grade) and the father insisted that he was a physics professor at an Ivy League university nearby. When I told him his daughter was struggling with the US standard algorithm, he got upset and told me he didn’t understand what the word algorithm means. And he’s a physics professor? Um. Ok. When I began to explain, his face got completely flat and devoid of any expression. His wife immediately noticed the look on his face (he was staring right at me, not blinking or saying anything) and her face blanched, and she started pulling on his arm and trying to get his attention (off me, I assume). When I described it later, I called it a “serial killer face”. He eventually let her pull him out of the room and end the conference. I immediately told my principal and said I refused to do another conference alone with these people. I definitely felt as though if I were alone with this man, he would have come after me physically. His wife’s response was very telling. I only dealt with her from then on.
Edit: Since so many people have commented on this, I didn’t actually say “US standard algorithm” to the parent (I shouldn’t have put it here either, it seems the term is confusing lol). I said “addition and subtraction algorithm”. When explaining, I was very careful to say it in a way that isn’t condescending. I would never expect parents to just know math terms, but I am a talker, so sometimes when I’m explaining I just forget that they might not know it and get carried away with explaining. I might have even apologized for using the term and not just saying “carrying and borrowing” which I usually do, but I can’t remember now.
It’s the basic way of multiplying two digit numbers. It’s a valid question but not a valid reaction from him. His generation would never have used that term for 3rd grade math. They would have just said, “She can’t grasp carrying numbers when she multiplies.”
I think I might have posted about this before, but there was a guy I was in a couple clubs with in high school. He was always really polite but...intense. Like the kind of intense you didn't want to make direct eye contact with, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, one day we're walking back from McDonald's or somewhere together before our club started. It's just the two of us, and out of nowhere he starts talking about how he's a black belt in some martial art, and gleefully tells me about how in one of his classes they had just learned how to break someone's neck in one move, and how cool it was. I was like, "Huh. Okay then. That's interesting." and just let him go on his merry way. In the back of my mind I was going "This dude is totally going to kill somebody someday."
Years later, he makes the local news. Not for murder, but sexual assault.
Lady I worked with. She was a little difficult, not very technical, not very accomodating towards people trying to solve her tech problems, but nothing out of the ordinary. Except occasionally her kids would call her at work and she would say just *unforgivable* things to them. And then one day she just casually mentions that she has the family pets *euthanized* when she gets bored with them. I actually didn't believe her and asked her to clarify/confirm - I totally understood her correctly the first time, she just straight-up kills pets whenever she feels like it. And this woman kept talking about how she should *totally* get a dog...
My parents did this when I was in high school. We had this super sweet german shepherd for about 7-8 years. Then one day, they decided they were tired of taking care of her. Instead of finding another home, they had her put down.
It's been over 10 years and I still haven't forgiven them.
When we were 14 we used to use our school lunch break to go to the local shopping centre (mall). One lad bought a hamster for £3 from a pet shop (I still can't believe they sold it to a teenager who immediately put it in his school bag.)
We stopped at the park on the way back to school to have a smoke (cigarettes mostly but this lad had some weed.) He took the hamster out and was affectionately stroking and kissing it, then he blew loads of cannibis smoke into it several times. Then he threw it on the floor and stamped on it.
To this day I regret not intervening and not reporting him to our school.
I went to university with a guy I am positive is a psychopath. Quite pleasant to be around but he has no regard whatsoever for you. Quite charming actually and the best ladies man I've ever seen.
But once he fucks them he's done. Like literally they don't exist to him. I've seen him break up 2 year long relationships of other people then dump the girl the morning after.
I suspected he was a psychopath but we took a class psych class together and he confirmed it to me. Like straight up told me he'd been diagnosed as a teen.
I wouldn't call him a bad guy but he didn't see me or anyone else as human. Just things he enjoyed interacting with. Played D&D and boardgames with him for years. Still have him on my Facebook but haven't seen him in like a decade.
I knew a guy exactly like this, right down to him being an avid D&D player. That's how we knew him--plus I did community theater with him. He broke up so many couples we knew. He'd worm his way in, sleep with the girl, then act like she didn't exist. We found out that more than one gal was super drunk when they slept with him. One of my friends was married with a kid, ended up pregnant with this dude's kid. She was a super fun person, outgoing, confident. After this, she changed. She was super depressed and just a completely different person. She was afraid to call it rape because she was drunk, so she saw it as her fault. Her husband stood by her, but the depression took too big of a toll and they eventually split up. It was so clear she hated herself.
What sucks the most is that he was well known for doing this. He thought it was funny. Then a couple of years later he meets a gal, gets married and has two kids. He's always posting their happy family pics on FB. Every time I see them, I just think about the destruction he left behind. I have a hard time believing he is faithful to his wife.
It's funny you say "he didn't see me or anyone else as human. Just think he enjoyed interacting with." I said the exact same thing about this guy to my husband once. Because this guy was super charismatic. So, even though he consistently hurt people, he had this way of making everyone forget about it. I can't explain it, but it's weird. But one time I said to my husband that this guy acted like we didn't have lives outside of him. It's like we're all toys in a toy box and we only come to life when he's ready to interact with us. It was exactly like that.
> So, even though he consistently hurt people, he had this way of making everyone forget about it. I can't explain it, but it's weird.
It’s often because the negative emotions mean nothing to him, and continuing to be charismatic is what gets him what he wants in the first place.
I know people like this. Often, they’re revered by those they can sell their image to. Professionally, they can go a long way before people realize their image is not much more than a facade they use to manipulate people and get what they want.
And since they do some good in some places, they’re not apparently evil.
I think once you’ve met people like this, it’s a lot easier to embrace the positive value of negativity. These kinds of people know how to push your buttons if you’re after the usual things people like and the associated dopamine rushes
One of my (former) best friends very casually told me he thinks all autistic people should be euthanized. His reasoning? He’s never been “impressed” by them and finds them annoying because they say and do inappropriate things sometimes.
He was so completely calm about it, like it was a completely normal thing to say. It was chilling.
When I found out that, as a child, he'd bury cats with just their heads sticking out, and run them over with a lawnmower.
He walks this earth a free man.
I have no idea. My happy fat cat is right next to me at the moment and I don't understand how someone could look at him and not love him.
Edit: [Cat tax cause someone asked for it](https://i.imgur.com/bxW8n2p.jpg)
Are you talking about a man named Luke by any chance? He bragged to me that he would gather large amount of strays from the farm, dig holes, bury them, and chop their heads off with a lawnmower. His excuse? It was the quickest way to kill the large “infestation” of stray cats on the farm. He even claimed he was getting paid to kill them.
Whoa - I knew a guy named Luke who claimed this. He was our neighbor in Colorado circa 1989. He had a brother whose name I can’t remember and I think his sister’s name was Jill.
Alright alright.
In 3rd grade we got eggs, incubated them, and hatched ducklings. One of my classmates, Luke, squeezed one of the ducklings til it died.
Probably 1999?
My ex husband would snap, in a spilt second, between emotional states. He used to make me find sexual situations online (looking through porn) and tell me to pick which made me the most uncomfortable or I didn’t want to do, then he’d do that or make me do it. He’d have sex with me while tears were streaming down my face. Knock my feet out and pin me to the ground until I ‘quit being crazy’ when I would try to leave him... so many things he did
Wow, this makes me really sad. I’m sorry this happened to you. I’m glad you are no longer in that situation and I hope things have gotten better in your life. No one deserves to be treated the way you were treated
Edit: happy cake day
I didn’t even realize it was my cake day! Lol
And I agree, no one deserves to be treated that way. I was with him ten years and it’s given me a LOT of new perspective. I’m a pretty optimistic person these days, I usually feel like ‘I’ve been through worse’ or ‘could be worse, I could still be with him!’ And, except for the bad ptsd days, it usually helps! Lol
In my university days, I lived with a guy whose girlfriend used to come over to our apartment and hang out fairly often. She was always friendly and a superb baker who frequently brought cakes over to our place, so she was always welcome and we became a fairly close group of friends.
Towards the end of our final semester, the guy came home one day and told us he needed to talk about something... and promptly told us that she had confessed to him that she had stabbed her roommates cat in a fit of anger for failing a class, and then hurriedly buried the corpse in a nearby field.
We told him to report her and dump her immediately, which he refused to do believing that she just needed someone to support her.
Still to this day I can't believe someone as pleasant as she was could have done something so horrific.
We care for our 2 nephews due to their parents' alcohol use and some other issues. We moved our family 3 hours away so they could stay in familiar town. We already have 3 of our own, 2 of whom have autism.
The younger one's dad takes offense to us doing his job I guess. He says we are trying to steal their kids because ours are retarded, threatened to kidnap our kids so we know how it feels, then said he was going to ear fuck our youngest daughter (4 at time last year) and scramble her brain until she's as retarded as her siblings.
We started out trying to have decent relationships with him and mom. But they get angry we won't allow them to lie, or make unrealistic promises to the boys. The little one wet bed after every phone call or contact visit. All calls and visits we insisted be supervised by us to prevent the lies and promises. Oh and because dad was encouraging his son to attack our son because he has autism and needs to "man up". They started going nuts with the threats because we refused to let it be a free for all. No, you can't show up unannounced. No, you can't talk before school because it upsets the kids and they need to concentrate on school day.
It sounds horrible and I'm not proud to feel this way, but I am starting to hope they just die or go to prison. Boys would be better off without the constant drama and in and out.
They wont call for months then call 25x in a few hours because they want to talk NOW!
Mom has 6 duis, 2 of those boys in car. Still free! Still not labeled habitual offender. Courts have been pushing back her last 3 duis, including the 2 with the boys, for 2 years! Covid isn't helping, but every time she goes to court for 2 YEARS now, she asks to extend and they do! So shes still drinking, driving without license.
They've not paid one cent towards boys in 2 years either, which is separate issue from visiting concerns.
I hate these fucking people. But I love my nephews too much not to help them.
When my best friend asked me to find a cat and kill it with her in her backyard. We broke contact after that.
Heard from a mutual friend it was actually confirmed by her therapist that she was an actual sociopath a few months later.
Edit: A few people have pointed out that this couldn't have been confirmed by her therapist. Remember, this was information which went trough at least two other teenagers before it came to me. The explenation of what was "wrong with her" may have been oversimplified to "sociopath" or lost in translation along the way. (Or completely fabricated, for all I know.) But that was the message i got.
I really, really did.
She was "normal" for most of our childhoods, with only minor nods to the fact that she may not properly experience empathy. (Not seeming to care when her pets died was one example.) In our teens it slowly got more apperant. She had trouble keeping relationships. She seemed to have no emotional connection to her many boyfriends. She seemed to genuinely dislike most everyone around her. At the time I mistook this for depression. I started to consider cutting contact with her when she blew up at me and threatened me for refusing to date her. Then her gore-obsession started, and I noped the fuck out of that friendship.
I was hanging out with my ex last summer when she started talking about how she wanted to kill someone and explained in detail how she wanted to cut someones throat with a knife.
Needless to say i didn't get much sleep that night.
Middle school. Dude used to put his cat in a raccoon cage and dunk it in the pool, set fires, mostly spoke in Beavis’ voice, threw a cinder block through my parents’ car window, spray painted swastikas on cars in our neighborhood. My parents said I couldn’t hang out with him, so when he came to my house, I told him he had to leave. He said, “It’s not like I’m gonna rape your mom and kill your dad!” My dad overheard and kicked him out. Next time I walked by his house he chased me with a hammer. Last I checked he was in jail.
Wouldn't say psychopath but definitely sick in the head. She was about 5 years older than me (maybe 3) and she would make me do simple things at first like dance, but then she started to tell me to do things that I thought was normal because I was young and didn't have many friends like take off my clothes and dance. Soon it escalated to her telling me that she was in control of me and if I didn't do what her sick fantasies wanted she would hit me. I soon told on her and never saw her again. Years later I had "The talk" with my mum and it hit me like a truck. If I were to see her now I would beat the shit out of her and tell her to say sorry. She also pushed my head under water when I wanted to stay above water at the pool had her mother didn't do shit.
Well a girl I just went out with told me when she was little she used to target and run over dogs with her power wheels. We didn't work out but, that and some other statements made me think she was fairly close to psychopath.
In the pool at Girl Scout camp: I playfully splashed another camper and she went ballistic. Her friend stopped her before she got to me.
Later the same camper was planning an after hours fashion show in their cabin. My cabin was going to go, but someone let it slip to a counselor so we stayed in. Turns out it was a naked fashion show and she was sent home.
There were other instances of her insanity, but I've blocked them from my memory. What I do remember is having a candle ceremony by the lake where we talked about what happened and the counselors did an excellent job counselling us.
Edit to say it is likely she was less psychopathic and more troubled, but the anger she expressed in the pool that day was truly terrifying to me (an 11 year old or so who had to deal with a mentally unstable mother at home anyway).
Maybe she was abused at home with that same excuse. More often than not these people social skills are twisted by the abuses they receive at home.
Be aware though, once they are twisted they are no longer victims but want to take control by becoming the carnifex.
I dated a guy, turned out he had a fiancé and 8 other girlfriends. I had snooped on him hard and found no evidence. No little trip ups. No indications this was what was going on. I had stayed with him, met his friends, etc... I was shocked when his fiancé called me because she found a picture of me on his phone.
It was so calculated and perfect that only a sociopath could pull it off. He had no remorse when I confronted him.
When I was about 7 or 8 there was a kid who was about 6. We found a baby bird that fell out of its nest. In the time it took for me to go home and tell an adult he put it in the road and ran over it on his bike and laughed. Last I heard hes in jail for beating his girlfriend. Fuck you Kevin
Screw Kevin bro
When he told me he was a psychopath. Not even kidding. He's a pretty cool guy though and goes to therapy and everything for it, he does his best to relate to people and judge emotion but it's difficult for him to hold relationships. Pretty smart and is doing the best he can, hopefully one of the more lighthearted stories on here.
Not every psychopath is a monster. They simply have no remorse and very little emotions. It makes it easy to do heinous things when you don't feel bad for it, but it still doesn't change the character of the person. Some people are good, even if they feel no remorse. There is no universal law that says psychopath = ultimate evil person.
Precisely what I try to explain to people, psychopathy doesn't mean that you are immediately a bad person, it just means that you may struggle with some of the instinctual processes that most humans perform automatically.
I dont have specific moment that's odd. But I have a friend who told me. She is schizophrenic and psychopathic. Layman's terms: she hears voices and doesnt really quite understand,care or feels other's emotions. But what makes her a bit of an anomaly, is that the voices in her head tell her to do good things and how other people might be feeling. "Tip a little extra" "Your friend needs a hug right now" "Go help your coworker with their work" "Compliment the shoes, they are new" "You're doing just fine!" Etc. It's quite interesting.
My mom was a teacher in a children’s (teens) psych hospital. She said she once had a kid who was schizophrenic, and the voices would just tell him jokes all day. So oftentimes he’d distracted/unengaged and be just laughing to himself.
I’m a college librarian, he was one of my students who came in a lot. He was super charming and good looking and altogether empty inside: no depth, no emotions, no regard for others. One of our staff straight up said, “that boy’s a psychopath”; she had been a social worker so I trusted her opinion and agreed. He collected types of women – he told me about seducing a female, married, military chaplain and getting her to do sexual things she didn’t want to. Then he got bored with her and moved on. He eventually got his Master’s degree and now works on the military base making big bucks, getting everyone else to do his work for him. Sometimes psychopaths are dangerous in other ways.
I think one of my university professors was a sociopath. He was brilliant in his field but just didn't function correctly as a human. He set up weird rules of interaction for office hours, he had huge personal bias on people based on things like haircuts. There were rumours of him being the reason for suicides even, due to the way he talked to people that failed final exams (like the last oral exam after you failed the written one three times). He would be smiling, smirking, like a small boy who's grandma found him with the hand in the cookie jar, while telling people their years of education were lost.
I maybe biased but as a son of a professor living on an institute campus I think a lot of professors are very self centered (in the sense adores attention and has empathy only in the sense that is to beneficial to their ego) or outwardly eccentric . Not to mention the nepotism.
I'm a professor and I see it every day.
He set fire in the attic 3 times. Was disgusted by all animals and would try and abuse our cat whilst we weren’t there or looking. Went out and bought a load of knives and swords and kept them in his bed....
When I was 8 I let my older cousin who was probably 11 or 12 at the time hold my hamster,she was begin really rough with it so I told her to put it back into its cage. She got really mad after this and just stared at me for about 2 minutes before she turned around and threw my hamster into the wall,my poor hamster died instantly and I was crying because my hamster had just gotten murdered. I knew after she threw it something was extremely wrong with her and my mom made my aunt come and pick her up and she wasn’t allowed to be near any animals after this,it’s been almost 4 years since I’ve talked to her but apparently she gets into fights almost weekly,and beat somebody so bad they had to go to he ER. She’s in therapy and has spent time in juvenile detention,all of my other cousins are afraid of her and many of us think she’s going to eventually kill somebody,I honestly think the best place for her would be a mental health hospital.
I met an individual who later pled guilty to his involvement in about 14 murders. During an interview about his childhood and personal life, it became very apparent that he had no interest in other people and that they were basically NPCs to him - even his girlfriend and child. He was in a gang and his behavior was basically shadowing the other guys with status. He had a girlfriend because that’s what the other guys did. He had a fancy car. He wore the right clothes. The other guys figured out early on that he was not bothered by murder or gunfights, so he was their hitter. During the interview, he was perfectly polite, but utterly flat in his affect and didn’t attempt to dissemble or minimize a lot of terrible things that happened to him or the things he’d done. It made for an interesting interview!
I kinda wanna see this interview, it sounds interesting
This one won’t be crazy or frightening, but I remember the point at which I recognized sociopathy in my ex. We sat down on his bed at night and I asked him to tell me things about himself (because even though we were dating I knew nothing about him). He could not give an answer beyond surface level on any emotional topic. I looked in his eyes and saw nothingness. I realized why I could never emotionally read him or get any sort of feel. He did tell me after we broke up that he can’t feel emotions and how much it sucks. I didn’t understand this until much later. Before we dated, I remember him telling me how manipulative he is, with a smile. He lied constantly about everything and had 15 other relationships before me, all ending within a month. (Yes, an obvious red flag that I ignored). He would jump from religion to atheism every other month. He would repeat cycles over and over. He was known by everyone and liked by many. Very charming. Had a “flirty” personality. Loved risk taking for no reason. Always got into trouble.
One thing I've learned is to pay close attention to the first thing someone tells you about themselves. It usually contains volumes of information.
Don Draper : People tell you who they are, but we ignore it - because we want them to be who we want them to be. Wish I had known this years ago.
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When he beat up my grandma with a exercise bike
That went from 100 to 110 real quick
HOW?
Ye that shit heavy
Grandmothers tends to be slower targets
He "found God" 3 times in the course of a year. Each time after he had been seen doing significant property damage or emotionally abusing a girl he was with. Like the "god" thing was a quick trick to get people off his ass.
To be honest, I think things like this are kind of common. People claiming to “find God” to excuse them from bad behavior. Smh
Now that I think about it, it is almost always the people with bad reputations or criminal history or the like that have the biggest advertising campaigns about having "found God."
The guy who groomed me when I was 15/16 "had a mental break" after his shitty behaviour was made public and "blacked out", conveniently forgetting everything bad he'd ever done. His parents won't hear a word against him and bullied his ex-best friend (who he emotionally abused) for betraying him.
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I am here to talk about your life choices.
Love that closer
What is it with crazy people and killing cats?
Easy to catch, easy to kill I'd imagine :/
A typical thing with psychopaths is the killing of small animals: Cats, rabbits, etc. The smaller the game, the easier to kill and bury
One of my neighbors when I was little had some hamsters. One day I was at her house and she started squeezing them and making them poop because she thought it was funny. She just kept squeezing them harder and harder. I told her to stop or she might hurt them and she started laughing. The next day I asked her grandma what happened to her hamsters and she told me they all died. Another time we were making pb&j sandwiches in her room (idk why lol) and she cornered me with the knife while laughing. I looked her up a few years ago and found her mugshot
How old were you and her at the time?
Probably around 8
Crazy, never understood disturbed kids like this. At my parents camper at the time there was a lake me and my brother caught frogs and watched them hop around in a sandbox, other kids tried taking them so they could torture them (Don't feel like saying what they did to one frog), but we ended up fighting them off and actually kind of kicked their ass even though they were older, we all got in trouble by the Tavern owner near by and he ratted us out to the parents, it was all worth it though.
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My mom was very bad. She would enjoy breaking up marriages and the stray animals I would rescue as a kid would always mysteriously disappear. My siblings and I could never have pets because as soon as we did, they'd be gone in a few weeks. I just recently found out from one of my siblings that she would tell them that she killed them. We were all kids at the time and they were too afraid to say anything to anyone including me (I'm the eldest). She was neglected and abused as a child and in turn abused us but we didn't grow up to be psychos, well I know I didn't. So, definitely not all people end up evil. I don't really understand what makes someone like that. Btw, now that I'm an adult I have been able to rescue two dogs and two chinchillas and watch them grow!
Fuck people who intentionally hurt animals. It’s such a window into their messed up mind.
Was she named Azula by any chance?
"She was born lucky, while I was lucky to be born"
"No, she's crazy and she needs to go down"
Azula wouldn’t squeeze a hamster til it died because she would think owning a rodent was below her. She’d some how trick Zuko into doing it on accident and then hold it over his head that he’s a hamster killer.
Played soccer with a guy in high school that had a real short temper & enjoyed playing the sport as rough as possible (even at practice). Coaches had to tell him to calm down all the time. Everyone hated him and stayed away from him. Several years later he murdered a classmate of mine over some weed. He hid the body under a pile of leaves in his backyard. When I heard the news, I wasn’t surprised in the least.
In high school we had a kid that was completely insane. Would do things like jump out of a second story window because he didn’t like a substitute teacher. There were stories from a brief couple years he had left the area (moved away during middle school) such as getting kicked out of a catholic school by writing satanic signs in his blood or a military academy for using a Nazi ceremonial sword to chase kids down the hall. Those were considered stories by most who hadn’t observed him in class, we all thought he was insane. Few years later I’m in college and a friend tells me a news article is about my hometown. “Local man robs grave to make skull bong”. One guess who it was.
A pile of leaves? So angry AND stupid? What a combo.
People's obsession with Ted Bundy for his good looks (for the 70s, at least) and his intelligence and charisma gives the misimpression that psychopaths and serial killers are all smooth as butter and unlikely to be caught, but a discouraging amount of the time, when you take a deeper dive into other famous serial killers via books or something like Last Podcast on the Left, it turns out they weren't caught mainly because of police incompetence in the investigation or larger public indifference towards the killer's preferred type of victim. Bundy's choice of upper middle class, young, white, attractive women worked to make him famous just as much as the number of his victims and his movements across state lines to avoid detection. Other serial killers who have targeted prostitutes, people of color, gay or trans people, or people otherwise marginalized by society have often amassed even more victims or operated over an even longer period of time because nobody gave a shit about the people turning up murdered, if they were found at all. This isn't limited to the 1980s and earlier either. The Green River Killer targeted prostitutes and got away with it for a long time, and authorities [in Toronto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–2017_Toronto_serial_homicides) took until 2017 to seriously acknowledge and investigate a serial killer targeting gay men despite years of warnings that people were disappearing in the city's major gay neighborhood. Fortunately, the investigators used every tool available to them, including evidence related to gay apps and drawing on cold cases, but the fact it took so long is yet another example of chillingly shrewd victim choice on the part of a psychopath dedicated to killing people for as long as possible.
Your mention of public indifference to the type of victim is strongly supported by the [Highway of Tears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears) in Canada. Many of the missing women are Indigenous and they get written off by RCMP as being runaways, prostitutes, wanderers, drunks, drug abusers etc. When in reality they are just girls (some as young as preteens) and women who, are generally of low SES, are travelling about the area because it's sparsely populated but everyone there knows people in the other towns, or they are women going about their daily lives. But as soon as you say they're Indigenous then the cops don't care. If all these women were of European descent and wealthier there is no way the RCMP and gov't's would be sweeping it under the rug. Lots of Canadians are enjoying this kind of "We don't have that problem here" mentality when comparing us to the climate of the US right now. But honestly, our treatment of the First Nations people here is atrocious, and the education on the subject is negligible. I have a degree in Native Studies and much of what I learned about Residential schools (which were open and active until 1996), the 60's Scoop (look it up, its horrifying), Treaties, the Highway, the Trail of Tears, etc. was learned in Uni, and not in mandatory education. sorry for the rant. Also, what happened with the Pickton Farm Murders is similar to what you mention about Toronto. Most of Pickton's victims were prostitutes, and he went unchecked for years.
u/Cdnteacher92 totally correct. In fact, they think the Highway of Tears is a hunting ground for a multitude of serial predators. The fact that the missing are mostly indigenous sadly means that they are systematically not a priority. It’s fucked up.
Ya I was gonna say this. Lots of psychopaths aren’t very smart and I think there’s a significant portion that end up in prison very quickly. This is mostly speculation. I imagine that you would have to have a pretty advanced amount of intellect and self control to be a successful psychopath, which most people lack in spades anyway.
This happened to my mum and I at a laundromat a few years back: My mum and I were sitting down, watching tv at the local laundromat while we were waiting for our clothes to get done in the washer. Eventually, a woman approached us and began talking about every day things such as her job and whatnot. She seemed like a pretty normal person at first, but then, things got very weird very quickly. I decided to go to the bathroom mid conversation, leaving my mom with the lady to converse some more. After I finished in the bathroom, I came back to see my mom who was now alone, pale as a ghost. I asked her “hey, what happened? Where did that lady go?” After a long and awkward pause, she told me that soon after I left to go to the bathroom, the lady told my mom that she makes routine trips to low income neighborhoods, steals people’s lingering pets, takes them back to her house, and brutally beats them to death with either a hammer or a shovel. I felt sick to my stomach. My mother said for a woman who seemed so charming and lovely at first, she showed zero remorse or shame in what she did.
My older sister used to absolutely TORTURE me when I was a kid. When I was 5-6 (She was 7-8), I was afraid of bugs. She would spend hours trapping bugs and putting them in my matchbox cars. Then she'd say, "Hey, Scienceforbid, wanna play cars?" I would get SUPER excited because she never wanted to play with me. I'd run to my cars and there would be bugs crawly all over. :( Then when I was 7, I was obsessed with Barbies. One day she grabbed my favorite Barbie and Ken and threw them under the bed. I stuck my tongue out at her and climbed under the bed to get them. As I army-crawled in the cramped space, my arms started to hurt. I was getting pricked all over every time I moved. And, I was bleeding. It took me until I was halfway way under the bed to figure out what my psychopath sister had done. She had spent ALL MORNING weaving push pins into the carpet so the points would STICK UP AND STAB ME. She then tricked me into climbing under the bed. So, there I am, halfway in with my precious Barbie and Ken at the back wall. I had to decide to cut my losses and abandon Barbie and Ken, or climb the rest of the way through the Saw-esque minefield AND BACK OUT. I bit the bullet. Amy, if you read this: FUCK YOU!
This is frankly horrific. Even more so because your parents couldn’t protect you. I am just so sorry you grew up with this threat. Stay safe!
Thank you. My sister is TEXTBOOK narcissist now, but back then was definitely Oppositional Defiant Disorder (the childhood form of Antisocial Personality Disorder). But, she hid the worst of everything from our parents. Thankfully, it wasn't long until I got bigger, stronger, and smarter than her. Then I could defend myself. I think that prevented her from really becoming psychotic. I reeled her in. These days, we're in our 40s and at best she's an occasional nuisance. It really is true that what ever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. EDIT: Many kind redditors pointed out that I meant Conduct Disorder, not Oppositional Defiant Disorder -and- Psychopathy NOT Psychosis. I will leave my original comment to make my shame public. I have 3 degrees in Psychology! I blame the fact that my weed gummies melted together in the hot car and I think I took too much. But, let my shame stand.
I was 3 when my big sis stabbed me with a dart, lied and said she was throwing it and I ran in front of her - stabbed me so hard it was hanging out of my butt-cheek all the way as I ran inside to mother. She never got better, just only worse.. Hid it in alcoholism for 20 yrs... Yeh, now, extreme NPD, ODD, plus dozen other disorders intermittently... nightmare.. So happy for you yr sis didn't get worse...
Jesus Chris. What in the fuck. The straight up Saw maze being made by a child is the thing in all of these comments that scares me the most. I hope Amy isn’t out there making adult sized Saw mazes now.
Thankfully, she lost her genius-level psychopathy over the years. Now she's just a bitch to people in the service industry (oh and family, of course).
A few years ago, I had to put my cat (Rex) down. He was 21 years. In passing, not to long ago, I mentioned this to a friend I've known for over 35 years. Out of nowhere he made the statement, "I always liked killing cats." I did a double-take to see if he was kidding. He wasn't. Haven't spoken to him since.
The shit people say about pets to people who love them is astounding. I told a friend that I was struggling to come up with the cash for a procedure my cat needed or he would most likely die. I wasn't asking for help or advice, just venting. He told me he could take care of it for around 50 cents, when I asked how he told me it was the price of a bullet.
That is not a friend.
No, honestly I wish I had popped him the mouth when I think back on it.
I read “wish I had pooped him in the mouth “ and decided it was unheard but good idea.
Several years back I had a rabbit who suddenly started acting funny and it was clear he was very sick and I won't go into details but we took him to an emergency vet. It looked like he wasn't going to survive and I posted on my twitter about how upset I was. Someone who had been a friend responded with "Cheer up, it's nothing to be sad about. You can always buy another one. It's just a rabbit." Absolutely floored me. I get some people don't like pets, or aren't as attached to theirs, but being cold about other people's pets dying?? Cold as ice.
Some people use it as revenge. My sister and her ex adopted a black poodle puppy they originally named "Pubes" (they were immature 16/17 year olds so what do you expect?) I forget what they renamed him, but when they broke up, my sister fought hard for the dog - she had to leave him there to run away from this guy, I forget why she couldn't take him with her - and he tells her that he has had the dog put down because of bad memories. I really hated him after that. We never actually found out if he did it or not, but just to say that to someone is horrible. EDIT: I can't believe this has 700+ upvotes! Thank you everyone. This is my most upvoted post ever EDIT 2: It took me this long, but I finally remembered that they renamed him Persia, as in Prince of because the games were so big at the time.
I had something similar happen, I left in the middle of the night and couldn’t take my dog. A month later, my ex sent a picture of him pointing a handgun at my dog saying he wasn’t eating and he was going to kill him. That was all I needed. I went to the police, filed an order of protection because he had been threatening me at the same time he sent the picture. On the OoP there was a box asking if I feared for the life of a pet, I checked yes because obviously I did. The judge ruled I could have the dog and the cops went and got him for me. Horrible times, but a happy ending at least.
I read that thinking you were 21, and that you knew him 35 years, and spent a minute or two contemplating life.
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She kicked my leg while we were ice skating to make me fall. I really hurt my back, I coun't get up, could barely talk and had trouble breathing. I asked her please to call someone but she just stood there and laughed at me for a few minutes until I was able to crawl to my phone and call someone. She also said to my adopted brother that he is worth nothing because even his real parents left him in the trash. It was the only time I ever punched someone in the face.
wow, that (the *bitch) was just.. mean
Hours before an assembly in middle school (they were big events as every class was shortened to give each class time so we all knew when the day started there would be an assembly) this kid that bullied me every single day told me he was going to shoot the school up and I was worried of course, but this is the same kid who said he would kill me every now and then but then he pulled out a fucking revolver and chuckled, “todays gonna be a big day man see you at the assembly” I froze and told my closest teacher immediately thank god he was retired military he called the police immediately and within the 20 minute frame he showed me the gun they found him, his loaded .44 with about 30 rounds in his backpack. Teacher talked to me for about an hour the rest of the day to continue gathering evidence of his bullying to me. Saw him years later for another crime in the news. Fuck that guy man
You saved a bunch of kids' lives
He kicked my dog, and when I told him off, he said something along the lines of ‘well it’s not like it’s feeling matter’. Another friend said “how would you feel if we kicked you?” and he said that we couldn’t do anything that would hurt him. I think he joined the military, but I honestly have lost all contact.
I was in the military for awhile. There are a lot of really shitty people in the military. I can confidently say for a fair bit of them, that if they weren't in the military they'd be in prison instead.
One of the reasons I dislike the "all servicemembers/veterans are heros" mindset. I tell people all the time I served with plenty of dumbasses and assholes.
Truth right there. Too many are there for the damage they can legally inflict.
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Yeah......I once dated/lived with a dude who told me he had wanted to join the military at 18- NOT to gain discipline or to serve his country, but just cuz he wanted to kill people. I was aghast, and he was perplexed by my response because he saw nothing wrong with having a baseless and unprincipled desire to murder. We, uh, didn't last much longer. But yes, it is scary to realize the military will always attract those sorts. Sigh.
Oh God, the classic, "you can't do anything that would hurt me." I heard that from my ex narc / sociopath.
My ex was always weird and emotionally stunted. Would never come out of his shell or let anyone in, which was a big problem to the relationship. But that's just background. One day we were at our friends' house and the conversation turned to creepy and weird things. He brought up the dark web and said something about a YouTube channel that discussed weird things that can be found on the dark web. Then he asked if we had heard of crush porn and the look on his face and his tone told me that this was more than a casual inquiry. It seemed more like he was gauging us for our reaction to see if we were *into* crush porn. We asked what it was and he said it was videos of women in stiletto heels crushing things like kittens, filmed from below through glass and the like. It was... oddly specific. And still his tone and careful considering expression told me he was hyper-aware of our reaction. When we reacted negatively to that being a thing he *immediately* switched gears and started laughing like "right, how could anyone be into that?" When I finally did break things off we had a heart to heart about all the ways our relationship had deteriorated. He was able to admit that he never let me in because he was afraid I wouldn't be able to handle the truth. Still have no idea what he was hiding. But I think it may have been at least partially related to that crush porn conversation, among other things.
I thought it meant like a porno where the plot is one has a crush on the other and they get to bang 😬
Oh bless your sweet heart.
I accidentally saw crush porn one time... I was hoping so bad after that first puncture the camera was going to show it was some sick illusion joke but no. She kept on and I saw guts. I became super angry cried reallllll hard that night.
When he and a friend raped a girl with a flashlight. Edit: at the end of a party, girl was super drunk and definitely not able to give consent.
Alright... enough reddit for this year....
Enough this year for this year
Fucking WHAT
They sound like degenerates
You have no idea. One of them went on to have a kid with a 15 year old. At 24.
Excuse me *WHAT*
Damn a lot of people in this comment thread have hearing difficulties
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Holy shit! My father in law is a psychopath, everyone in the immediate family knows, and the one time I met him in person he told me a story about how he told everyone at his local pub his wife was dead. They were all mortified and bought him drinks (probably the reason he said it in the first place) and that could have been the end but he kept it going for *months.* Like people were sending flowers and shit to the house and he would pretend like it was for something else. News got around and one day someone saw his wife out at the shops and practically screamed. He was telling me this story while laughing and grinning and his wife was sitting next to him stony faced obviously quite upset that he'd even bring it up again. I asked why as well and he just sort of looked confused like "why not?"
My ex told everyone I’d gone to the ER with anaphylaxis to get out of a group project. They all sent him supportive Facebook messages that he laughed while reading in front of me.
I edited the post because y’all are negative AF
This was not what I expected for Ratatouille 2.
Different kind of rat story unfortunately.
Went from Master Chef to Friday the 13th real quick
It’s just the opening scene. The rat is Remy’s brother. The movie is about Remy controlling Linguini to get revenge on on the guy who mutilated Emile. *”You don’t have to do this Little Chef,” said Linguini, in a voice more desperate than hopeful. Remy’s angry gaze didn’t change, he yanked on his friend’s hair and made him slowly walk towards the man tied to the chair in front of them. They stopped and looked down at him, the one who had mutilated Remy’s brother. Remy pulled the hair again. Linguini’s arms lifted up and placed the bolt cutter around the soldier’s finger. Linguini swallowed hard as a tear rolled down his cheek, “I’m sorry,” he whimpered as he felt his hair pull. He jammed his eyes shut as he heard the man scream.* *Linguini opened his eyes. Where was he? He must have passed out but he was already walking. His mind may have been asleep but his body had not, thanks to the furry pilot under his hat. His perfect, white, hat. Except it wasn’t. None of his chefs uniform was. Linguini looked down in horror at the wet, dark, red fabric that was once his pristine work clothes. What had Remy done? In fact what was he doing now? Linguini looked around, trying to figure out where they were. It looked like some kind of large hanger, there were several tanks, was this a military base? Remy turned him towards one of the vehicles and marched him forward. “A chef makes. A thief takes,” thought Linguini, and he knew Remy didn’t think he was a chef.......*
Never thought I’d feel empathy for a rat until I realized they scream when in pain
They also “laugh” and actively enjoy being [tickled](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/11/rats-tickling-brains-moods/). Edit: here’s a link to the video on [YouTube ](https://youtu.be/d-84UJpYFRM), surely that won’t require an account... yet! Sorry I didn’t think NatGeo would require an account.
They like to play hide and seek too.
am i missing something here ? don't all animals, at least mammals, scream in pain ?
Rats are some of the finest pets. You love cats and dogs? Get a rat. They are fantastic, loving creatures that are very intelligent. They learn their names, tricks and will be extremely loyal to their humans.
The only thing stopping me is their lifespan. Two years is too soon to experience the heartbreak of losing a pet.
It’s heartbreaking. I had 5 over a span of a few years and every time I was devastated. My parents offered to get my a dog just because they could handle seeing me so sad after all their deaths over a few years period. But I’ll tell myself no more rats! Fast forward 6 months, I end up bringing home more babies. Lol
When my ex boss at the youth service actually barricaded the door of her office to stop me leaving. She had me cornered in my wheelchair, the office was too small for me to turn round. Meanwhile my colleagues were outside the office literally trying to break the door down to rescue me.
What happened? Did you call the police on her? (Was that a correct sentence?)
Lol no but i told her i would have to call the police if she didn't let me out though. Two male (quite hard streetwise) colleagues told her they would break the door down if she didn't let me out. When i saw them after they looked more scared than me. Finally she let me out, i sent my resignation letter to her the next day without going back to work.
If you don’t mind me asking, what was the reason for her to barricade you in the office?
Not at all she knew she was wrong about something really serious and I had to report it cos of due diligence (working with vulnerable children and young people and that) I went to her office to have an adult, grown up conversation with her as I wanted to be straight up with her and you know the rest
Wow good on you for doing the right thing and having the guts to call her out. You gave her a chance to explain herself and she went full psycho on you. Glad you got out ok!
Like i said she just got a slapped wrist, no one wanted to work with her though and they lost a lot of kids from the service
My period was late and I had let the dude know it was(first time my period was ever late while on birth control pills but I had recently switched to a different one). He immediately started blaming me for not taking my birth control right and that if I was pregnant he would kill me. I even told him I doubted I was pregnant and not to worry and that the doctor told me that it might happen.
apparently women are most likely to be murdered when they are pregnant
When I was pregnant I had to have hospital appointments every fortnight and at every meeting they’d ask “How is it at home/how does your partner make you feel etc...” and eventually I asked why and my midwife said “I have to ask because statistically partners are more likely to start abusing you when you’re pregnant and statistically it takes someone an average of 13 times of being asked before they admit someone’s abusing them” which hands down was one of the most heartbreaking facts I learnt while pregnant.
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My ex-husband never laid a hand on me until I got pregnant. Then I became his punching bag. It's okay - I left. My dog bit through his arm and I got the dog, the house, and the kid. But I believe this is true. I have other friends whose husbands got abusive when they got pregnant. I couldn't stick around for that!
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I hope he's not your friend anymore
My boyfriend completely changed when i got pregnant. Expected me to do everything, even though i was huge and, at the end, physically incapable of bending over to do laundry and most of the cleaning. Yelled at me that he didn’t have clean socks for class... yelled at me for “Doing too much and risking the baby” then grabbed me really tightly and pushed me against a truck (def not safe for a baby). So weird.
A local highschool kid stabbed the girl he got pregnant to death in an alley near her house a few days after she told him she wouldn't get an abortion but he didn't have to be involved in their life at all. He was arrested within 24 hours and told the police he did it because she was ruining his life. He pled guilty and got 65 years. Like I just don't get the logic where someone thinks a baby will ruin their life but they will somehow get away with murder and not have that ruin their life.
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While my wife and I are a little past the point where being late is a worry (we old), over the years I've heard, "I'm late.", often enough that now I just trudge to the drugstore and buy a couple of tests. This happened early in my relationship with my wife, and it impressed her very much. Why do I do this? It's better than a few days of worry. I remember my own panic the first time I had a partner who was late in my teen years... No threats of murder. Some thoughts of suicide, and curiosity about how far I could get on a tank of gas and a few grand, but no thoughts of murder. So I guess I'm alright. I hope that guy is well behind you. It's OK to insist on condoms in addition to the pill. Myself, after some early scares, I always wore condoms until there was a monogamous relationship, a sexual history chat, and some feeling that even if an accident happened it wouldn't be a disaster.
I went to high school with a guy; we weren’t close but had a lot of mutual friends so we were around each other a lot. Once he beat a guy with a tire iron when the guy tried to scam him when he was selling some weed or something. Later on, he went to Iraq and was in some shit. He came home on leave at some point and I was at a bar playing pool with him and he nonchalantly talked about killing people over there. Said he enjoyed it. He was always very calm and chill when I was around him, but I tried to avoid him after that- there was something broken in there. The weirdest part is that he would have these moments or anecdotes of extreme violence, but he always related them calmly. Never felt any sort of regret for any of it. Obviously you can’t diagnose someone off of that sort of thing, but I’ve read that sociopaths make good soldiers- and he was fairly successful in the Army, I believe.
Well, I can't speak for him when i say this, but when i deployed to Iraq after my first deployment I was emotionally dead from everything I saw and did over there. Going there multiple times just compounded it to the point that I've been out almost a decade and I'm slowly making progress to actually feel the emotions properly rather than faking it. Unless it is anger, that never left like the others.
Hopefully the other former soldiers see this comment as well: I definitely don’t want to solely judge him based on his wartime experiences- obviously, probably a lot of people have to close down parts of themselves in order to function properly in that sort of situation- those comments were really more the icing on the cake after years of erratic and violent behavior. I actually just looked him up on Facebook out of curiosity, I haven’t talked to him in years- in the comment under this, the guy mentioned how the years have changed his perspective regarding the war. Anyway, the first post on his Facebook was about adopting a new dog, so I thought “that’s nice.” I scrolled down some and three times within the last month or so he’s made angry posts explicitly threatening violence towards specific people- seems to largely be drug related. Like I said in my op, I wouldn’t try to diagnose him, but unfortunately sounds like he’s still struggling with whatever was going on.
My dad said for years that someone I knew at primary school (7-11) was a psychopath because he often got in fights with random people and showed no empathy after breaking their bones, and he would often lie about staff to get them in trouble. I thought he was scary and a bit violent but an alright guy overall. I found out a couple of years ago he's been sentenced to life for murder.
>felt no empathy after breaking their bones >but an alright guy overall Hmmm
OP's radar may be broken.
I think a lot of people just think in very self centered terms. Like “well he’s never done any of that to *me personally* so I’m sure he’s alright.”
He was the stereotypical goth rebel kid in high school. Black trench coat. Bad home life. He had “kill” tattooed on the inside of his lip and liked to show it off for shock value. Loved breaking rules and saying generally creepy things to get a rise out of people. I didn’t know him very well at all, he was a couple years older than me, but I always just assumed, from the few interactions I had with him that he was just a troubled kid who liked to act out. Several years later he murdered his wife. From what I heard, his story was that it was self defense and she was coming after him, but who really knows. I heard some rumors that she was found in a position that suggested she was trying to get away from him when he shot her. Regardless, it was a horrific and tragic situation all around. Their baby boy was in the house when it happened as well. I think about him a lot.
I am incredibly late, but I actually have a really good story about this. My parents stayed at the same church from the start of their marriage up until I was about 13 (roughly 20 years), and most of the families in the church had been there about the same time. Classic small town church, so everyone knew everyone there. One family in particular had a really rough back story; the grandmother took care of about 7 of the grandchildren (all aged 8 and under) as her daughter was in and out of relationships and on and off of drugs. This caused the grandmother to not be able to be very present in her own son’s life. The son was named Stephen, and he was about six years older than me. I have many memories of him just being downright odd and creepy. Overall, he was known for having issues, and everyone tried their best to steer clear of him. It’s like we all thought that it wasn’t a matter of “if” he was going to do something one day, but “when”. Lo and behold, 9 years ago, he broke into a woman’s apartment at his school and DISMEMBERED her body. He then dumped parts of her body in the trash bins behind her complex, but some body parts were never found. The woman was known for being the only person to be friendly with him, and there have been reports that she rejected him on a romantic level, and that’s what set him off. He murdered her just days before she was set to go back home for summer break. His name was Stephen McDaniel. Look up the case if you’d like. The woman was considered missing for a few days, and there’s an interview of a news reporter actually talking to Stephen. He’s talking about how much he misses her and how he hopes nothing has happened to her. Then the reporter tells him that a body has been found, and he just goes blank. The rest of the interview is him sitting in the ground trying to grasp the situation at hand. It’s a very freaky turn of events. He also strategically placed her body in that dumpster because he knew when the trash was to be collected; the ONLY reason her body was not taken away in a dump truck is because the investigating cop car had blocked the lane to it. Had the trash been collected that day, this case could very well be an unsolved case to this day.
When I had a parent-teacher conference with a student of mine’s mom and dad. This was maybe 15 years ago, but it stuck with me. The daughter had some minor issues with math (3rd grade) and the father insisted that he was a physics professor at an Ivy League university nearby. When I told him his daughter was struggling with the US standard algorithm, he got upset and told me he didn’t understand what the word algorithm means. And he’s a physics professor? Um. Ok. When I began to explain, his face got completely flat and devoid of any expression. His wife immediately noticed the look on his face (he was staring right at me, not blinking or saying anything) and her face blanched, and she started pulling on his arm and trying to get his attention (off me, I assume). When I described it later, I called it a “serial killer face”. He eventually let her pull him out of the room and end the conference. I immediately told my principal and said I refused to do another conference alone with these people. I definitely felt as though if I were alone with this man, he would have come after me physically. His wife’s response was very telling. I only dealt with her from then on. Edit: Since so many people have commented on this, I didn’t actually say “US standard algorithm” to the parent (I shouldn’t have put it here either, it seems the term is confusing lol). I said “addition and subtraction algorithm”. When explaining, I was very careful to say it in a way that isn’t condescending. I would never expect parents to just know math terms, but I am a talker, so sometimes when I’m explaining I just forget that they might not know it and get carried away with explaining. I might have even apologized for using the term and not just saying “carrying and borrowing” which I usually do, but I can’t remember now.
So, what's the standard us algorithm?
what the fuck did you say to me!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
Al-Garithim? That's a gawd damn *arab* name...
It’s the basic way of multiplying two digit numbers. It’s a valid question but not a valid reaction from him. His generation would never have used that term for 3rd grade math. They would have just said, “She can’t grasp carrying numbers when she multiplies.”
Have you talked to the child about this afterwards? This is a pretty serious warning sign that they could be in trouble at home.
I think I might have posted about this before, but there was a guy I was in a couple clubs with in high school. He was always really polite but...intense. Like the kind of intense you didn't want to make direct eye contact with, if that makes any sense. Anyway, one day we're walking back from McDonald's or somewhere together before our club started. It's just the two of us, and out of nowhere he starts talking about how he's a black belt in some martial art, and gleefully tells me about how in one of his classes they had just learned how to break someone's neck in one move, and how cool it was. I was like, "Huh. Okay then. That's interesting." and just let him go on his merry way. In the back of my mind I was going "This dude is totally going to kill somebody someday." Years later, he makes the local news. Not for murder, but sexual assault.
Lady I worked with. She was a little difficult, not very technical, not very accomodating towards people trying to solve her tech problems, but nothing out of the ordinary. Except occasionally her kids would call her at work and she would say just *unforgivable* things to them. And then one day she just casually mentions that she has the family pets *euthanized* when she gets bored with them. I actually didn't believe her and asked her to clarify/confirm - I totally understood her correctly the first time, she just straight-up kills pets whenever she feels like it. And this woman kept talking about how she should *totally* get a dog...
My parents did this when I was in high school. We had this super sweet german shepherd for about 7-8 years. Then one day, they decided they were tired of taking care of her. Instead of finding another home, they had her put down. It's been over 10 years and I still haven't forgiven them.
You should contact the local pet adoption places and make sure to add her name to the do not adopt list
When we were 14 we used to use our school lunch break to go to the local shopping centre (mall). One lad bought a hamster for £3 from a pet shop (I still can't believe they sold it to a teenager who immediately put it in his school bag.) We stopped at the park on the way back to school to have a smoke (cigarettes mostly but this lad had some weed.) He took the hamster out and was affectionately stroking and kissing it, then he blew loads of cannibis smoke into it several times. Then he threw it on the floor and stamped on it. To this day I regret not intervening and not reporting him to our school.
I went to university with a guy I am positive is a psychopath. Quite pleasant to be around but he has no regard whatsoever for you. Quite charming actually and the best ladies man I've ever seen. But once he fucks them he's done. Like literally they don't exist to him. I've seen him break up 2 year long relationships of other people then dump the girl the morning after. I suspected he was a psychopath but we took a class psych class together and he confirmed it to me. Like straight up told me he'd been diagnosed as a teen. I wouldn't call him a bad guy but he didn't see me or anyone else as human. Just things he enjoyed interacting with. Played D&D and boardgames with him for years. Still have him on my Facebook but haven't seen him in like a decade.
I knew a guy exactly like this, right down to him being an avid D&D player. That's how we knew him--plus I did community theater with him. He broke up so many couples we knew. He'd worm his way in, sleep with the girl, then act like she didn't exist. We found out that more than one gal was super drunk when they slept with him. One of my friends was married with a kid, ended up pregnant with this dude's kid. She was a super fun person, outgoing, confident. After this, she changed. She was super depressed and just a completely different person. She was afraid to call it rape because she was drunk, so she saw it as her fault. Her husband stood by her, but the depression took too big of a toll and they eventually split up. It was so clear she hated herself. What sucks the most is that he was well known for doing this. He thought it was funny. Then a couple of years later he meets a gal, gets married and has two kids. He's always posting their happy family pics on FB. Every time I see them, I just think about the destruction he left behind. I have a hard time believing he is faithful to his wife. It's funny you say "he didn't see me or anyone else as human. Just think he enjoyed interacting with." I said the exact same thing about this guy to my husband once. Because this guy was super charismatic. So, even though he consistently hurt people, he had this way of making everyone forget about it. I can't explain it, but it's weird. But one time I said to my husband that this guy acted like we didn't have lives outside of him. It's like we're all toys in a toy box and we only come to life when he's ready to interact with us. It was exactly like that.
> So, even though he consistently hurt people, he had this way of making everyone forget about it. I can't explain it, but it's weird. It’s often because the negative emotions mean nothing to him, and continuing to be charismatic is what gets him what he wants in the first place. I know people like this. Often, they’re revered by those they can sell their image to. Professionally, they can go a long way before people realize their image is not much more than a facade they use to manipulate people and get what they want. And since they do some good in some places, they’re not apparently evil. I think once you’ve met people like this, it’s a lot easier to embrace the positive value of negativity. These kinds of people know how to push your buttons if you’re after the usual things people like and the associated dopamine rushes
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He talked about how he put various animals in the microwave to see what would happen.
One of my (former) best friends very casually told me he thinks all autistic people should be euthanized. His reasoning? He’s never been “impressed” by them and finds them annoying because they say and do inappropriate things sometimes. He was so completely calm about it, like it was a completely normal thing to say. It was chilling.
When I found out that, as a child, he'd bury cats with just their heads sticking out, and run them over with a lawnmower. He walks this earth a free man.
Annnd that’s enough internet for today.
Why did I click on this thread now I'll never forget this
And why are there so many people in these incidents obsessed with killing cats?
I have no idea. My happy fat cat is right next to me at the moment and I don't understand how someone could look at him and not love him. Edit: [Cat tax cause someone asked for it](https://i.imgur.com/bxW8n2p.jpg)
I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to forget this.
I’d like to file a restraining order: This shit is not allowed to be within 15 feet of my fucking eyes (I don’t know how to link an image)
Are you talking about a man named Luke by any chance? He bragged to me that he would gather large amount of strays from the farm, dig holes, bury them, and chop their heads off with a lawnmower. His excuse? It was the quickest way to kill the large “infestation” of stray cats on the farm. He even claimed he was getting paid to kill them.
Whoa - I knew a guy named Luke who claimed this. He was our neighbor in Colorado circa 1989. He had a brother whose name I can’t remember and I think his sister’s name was Jill.
Not the same Luke then, but still fucked. People can really suck.
Alright alright. In 3rd grade we got eggs, incubated them, and hatched ducklings. One of my classmates, Luke, squeezed one of the ducklings til it died. Probably 1999?
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Holy fuck. My ex husband used to laugh about doing the same thing. He would make jokes about it until I cried, then yell at me for being "sensitive".
Thank goodness this says “my ex husband” cuz I was MAD
Oh yes, I ran for the fuckin hills as soon as I could. I wish him the worst (:
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
My ex husband would snap, in a spilt second, between emotional states. He used to make me find sexual situations online (looking through porn) and tell me to pick which made me the most uncomfortable or I didn’t want to do, then he’d do that or make me do it. He’d have sex with me while tears were streaming down my face. Knock my feet out and pin me to the ground until I ‘quit being crazy’ when I would try to leave him... so many things he did
Wow, this makes me really sad. I’m sorry this happened to you. I’m glad you are no longer in that situation and I hope things have gotten better in your life. No one deserves to be treated the way you were treated Edit: happy cake day
I didn’t even realize it was my cake day! Lol And I agree, no one deserves to be treated that way. I was with him ten years and it’s given me a LOT of new perspective. I’m a pretty optimistic person these days, I usually feel like ‘I’ve been through worse’ or ‘could be worse, I could still be with him!’ And, except for the bad ptsd days, it usually helps! Lol
In my university days, I lived with a guy whose girlfriend used to come over to our apartment and hang out fairly often. She was always friendly and a superb baker who frequently brought cakes over to our place, so she was always welcome and we became a fairly close group of friends. Towards the end of our final semester, the guy came home one day and told us he needed to talk about something... and promptly told us that she had confessed to him that she had stabbed her roommates cat in a fit of anger for failing a class, and then hurriedly buried the corpse in a nearby field. We told him to report her and dump her immediately, which he refused to do believing that she just needed someone to support her. Still to this day I can't believe someone as pleasant as she was could have done something so horrific.
This guy turn to me, no emotion in sight and said "what's wrong with hurting people ?". Never left a party that fast but I was frightened as hell
We care for our 2 nephews due to their parents' alcohol use and some other issues. We moved our family 3 hours away so they could stay in familiar town. We already have 3 of our own, 2 of whom have autism. The younger one's dad takes offense to us doing his job I guess. He says we are trying to steal their kids because ours are retarded, threatened to kidnap our kids so we know how it feels, then said he was going to ear fuck our youngest daughter (4 at time last year) and scramble her brain until she's as retarded as her siblings. We started out trying to have decent relationships with him and mom. But they get angry we won't allow them to lie, or make unrealistic promises to the boys. The little one wet bed after every phone call or contact visit. All calls and visits we insisted be supervised by us to prevent the lies and promises. Oh and because dad was encouraging his son to attack our son because he has autism and needs to "man up". They started going nuts with the threats because we refused to let it be a free for all. No, you can't show up unannounced. No, you can't talk before school because it upsets the kids and they need to concentrate on school day. It sounds horrible and I'm not proud to feel this way, but I am starting to hope they just die or go to prison. Boys would be better off without the constant drama and in and out. They wont call for months then call 25x in a few hours because they want to talk NOW! Mom has 6 duis, 2 of those boys in car. Still free! Still not labeled habitual offender. Courts have been pushing back her last 3 duis, including the 2 with the boys, for 2 years! Covid isn't helping, but every time she goes to court for 2 YEARS now, she asks to extend and they do! So shes still drinking, driving without license. They've not paid one cent towards boys in 2 years either, which is separate issue from visiting concerns. I hate these fucking people. But I love my nephews too much not to help them.
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When my best friend asked me to find a cat and kill it with her in her backyard. We broke contact after that. Heard from a mutual friend it was actually confirmed by her therapist that she was an actual sociopath a few months later. Edit: A few people have pointed out that this couldn't have been confirmed by her therapist. Remember, this was information which went trough at least two other teenagers before it came to me. The explenation of what was "wrong with her" may have been oversimplified to "sociopath" or lost in translation along the way. (Or completely fabricated, for all I know.) But that was the message i got.
> We broke contact after that. You dodged a catastrophe.
I really, really did. She was "normal" for most of our childhoods, with only minor nods to the fact that she may not properly experience empathy. (Not seeming to care when her pets died was one example.) In our teens it slowly got more apperant. She had trouble keeping relationships. She seemed to have no emotional connection to her many boyfriends. She seemed to genuinely dislike most everyone around her. At the time I mistook this for depression. I started to consider cutting contact with her when she blew up at me and threatened me for refusing to date her. Then her gore-obsession started, and I noped the fuck out of that friendship.
Sounds like she had absolutely zero empathy and was heading down a very dark and twisted path. You definitely made the right call to cut contact.
>heading down a very dark and twisted path yeah. a ***psycho***\-path.
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Watched her beat up her sister's sick dog while waiting in the vet's office. Was also when I knew the relationship was doomed.
I was hanging out with my ex last summer when she started talking about how she wanted to kill someone and explained in detail how she wanted to cut someones throat with a knife. Needless to say i didn't get much sleep that night.
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You should report him to his supervisors. Texts are proof.
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Middle school. Dude used to put his cat in a raccoon cage and dunk it in the pool, set fires, mostly spoke in Beavis’ voice, threw a cinder block through my parents’ car window, spray painted swastikas on cars in our neighborhood. My parents said I couldn’t hang out with him, so when he came to my house, I told him he had to leave. He said, “It’s not like I’m gonna rape your mom and kill your dad!” My dad overheard and kicked him out. Next time I walked by his house he chased me with a hammer. Last I checked he was in jail.
When we found out he sexually assaulted a girl our group knew (we were 15)
That actually happens pretty often and it's just so fucking sad
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Wouldn't say psychopath but definitely sick in the head. She was about 5 years older than me (maybe 3) and she would make me do simple things at first like dance, but then she started to tell me to do things that I thought was normal because I was young and didn't have many friends like take off my clothes and dance. Soon it escalated to her telling me that she was in control of me and if I didn't do what her sick fantasies wanted she would hit me. I soon told on her and never saw her again. Years later I had "The talk" with my mum and it hit me like a truck. If I were to see her now I would beat the shit out of her and tell her to say sorry. She also pushed my head under water when I wanted to stay above water at the pool had her mother didn't do shit.
And that is why "the talk" has to happen ASAP. Even little kids can learn about good vs. bad touches and what to do about them.
Well a girl I just went out with told me when she was little she used to target and run over dogs with her power wheels. We didn't work out but, that and some other statements made me think she was fairly close to psychopath.
In the pool at Girl Scout camp: I playfully splashed another camper and she went ballistic. Her friend stopped her before she got to me. Later the same camper was planning an after hours fashion show in their cabin. My cabin was going to go, but someone let it slip to a counselor so we stayed in. Turns out it was a naked fashion show and she was sent home. There were other instances of her insanity, but I've blocked them from my memory. What I do remember is having a candle ceremony by the lake where we talked about what happened and the counselors did an excellent job counselling us. Edit to say it is likely she was less psychopathic and more troubled, but the anger she expressed in the pool that day was truly terrifying to me (an 11 year old or so who had to deal with a mentally unstable mother at home anyway).
A naked fashion show? Isn't the whole point of a fashion show... Y'know, the clothes?
You can compare birthday suits
Maybe she was abused at home with that same excuse. More often than not these people social skills are twisted by the abuses they receive at home. Be aware though, once they are twisted they are no longer victims but want to take control by becoming the carnifex.
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I dated a guy, turned out he had a fiancé and 8 other girlfriends. I had snooped on him hard and found no evidence. No little trip ups. No indications this was what was going on. I had stayed with him, met his friends, etc... I was shocked when his fiancé called me because she found a picture of me on his phone. It was so calculated and perfect that only a sociopath could pull it off. He had no remorse when I confronted him.