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What makes a psychopath a psychopath?

seriously. i have read all of the nonsense literary salad of analysis on why someone goes crazy. but i want to know your opinion.
the first 4 years of my life, i was Appalachian, then i was moved to Cincy. Cincy....where hopefully no one knows your name....where if you didn't belong to some cult and behave like a gang member, you were the outcast.

the family that raised me were drunks druggies perverts and murderers and so were all their friends and relatives. and all the kids i went to school with. and i was ostracized. i never did drugs, my drinking was laughable, and i smoked because being in a smoky room drove me nuts unless i was smoking. i didn't sleep around.

i was nice nice nice....and all people did was attack me and lie about me. Why do i have no wish to murder and destroy people?

Why was i never a pervert or weirdo? i don't even cut or steal....am i not human?



See...these are the things we need to understand to keep these school shootings from happening.... what is it that makes the difference?
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
Few are psychopaths, but many are sociopaths. That's when you learn psychopathic tendencies from a traumatizing environment.
@MartinTheFirst i don't see the difference between the two and i just read the definitions. and i have never met anyone that followed the exact recipe for either. but why are they what they are?
Adstar · 56-60, M
@LILY61 They appear very similar to other people.. But one of the main differences is that psyco's are born Sociaopaths are made..
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@LILY61 The difference is that one is incapable of feeling empathy even if they try or want to, and the other has learned to not feel it when it suits them. If you wonder like biologically, it's unknown, but like I said with sociopaths it stems from trauma and selfishness.
@MartinTheFirst okay, good points