Some posts lately make light of seniors and dementia (please stop)

[Bayard]

32. Sociopath

Per "Psychology Today": "The sociopath has an attention bottleneck that allows him to focus only on one activity or train of thought, to the exclusion of others."

General Characteristics:
Superficial charm and good intelligence
Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking (ok, maybe not so much on that one)
Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations
Unreliability
Untruthfulness and insincerity
Lack of remorse and shame
Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
Pathological egocentricity and incapacity for love
General poverty in major affective reactions
Specific loss of insight
Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without
Suicide threats rarely carried out
Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
Failure to follow any life plan