Symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopath)

[yellow dahlia]

24. Oh boy! I'm tapped in even more now.

I wrote a 60 page paper about sexual sadist serial killers (many many many years ago). I read everything there was to read at the time.

I delved deep into the nature/nurture thing of various serial killers in history. I saw some patterns. Many of the patterns were triggered at certain ages of development.

Interestingly the paper was my "term paper/project". We picked our own topic. Out final exam consisted of one question each, tailored specifically to the content of our "paper". The professor wanted to know that we not only researched our topic, but were able to extrapolate from, and analyze, and discuss it. He asked me (something along the lines of) - so given the data you gathered, is there any way we can observe children to hope to avoid or prevent the direction they are going? My answer (basically) was - we should not do so, because our conclusions might determine or effect the outcome, and that could be dangerous.

The development and end result is dependent on so many variables. And the observation of people requires the ability to see many variables at once. Our world today is geared toward binary and easy answers. Many don't want to analyze things that way. And hence, they sometimes find us tedious. (Speaking for myself, at least.) lol