I think there is an important insight behind your facetious observation that while some people welcome a diagnosis of ADHD as explaining their behaviours in a way that seems to absolve them of full responsibility (it’s not me it’s my ADHD) , nobody would similarly welcome a diagnosis of psychopathy.
Except perhaps when accused of a serious crime when a plea of not guilty due to insanity may b sought. I was thinking of more mundane cases (I am not really an uncaring selfish asshole, it’s just my psychopathy)
Very interesting episode! Right now, as a lawyer, I’m working on domestic abuse case and was genuinely wondering, wait is this guy a real psychopath, is psychopathy even real…? Because for him it’s just down to character traits, no extensive history of crime and torturing kittens, educated and hardworking, just… overall ????? behaviours the more you know. For real, I’m describing his behaviours in details so court could see this isn’t divorce drama and something is seriously wrong, have 25 pages by now and it only feels like beginning. Well, I still won’t know what is wrong with this dude, but after listening to your episode at least I don’t feel tempted to read about the psychopathy
I think there is an important insight behind your facetious observation that while some people welcome a diagnosis of ADHD as explaining their behaviours in a way that seems to absolve them of full responsibility (it’s not me it’s my ADHD) , nobody would similarly welcome a diagnosis of psychopathy.
Except perhaps when accused of a serious crime when a plea of not guilty due to insanity may b sought. I was thinking of more mundane cases (I am not really an uncaring selfish asshole, it’s just my psychopathy)
Very interesting episode! Right now, as a lawyer, I’m working on domestic abuse case and was genuinely wondering, wait is this guy a real psychopath, is psychopathy even real…? Because for him it’s just down to character traits, no extensive history of crime and torturing kittens, educated and hardworking, just… overall ????? behaviours the more you know. For real, I’m describing his behaviours in details so court could see this isn’t divorce drama and something is seriously wrong, have 25 pages by now and it only feels like beginning. Well, I still won’t know what is wrong with this dude, but after listening to your episode at least I don’t feel tempted to read about the psychopathy
Excellent! Thanks
Come for the glory holes and stay for the obviously irredeemable criminals!