Thread by @kateneuropsych

WRONG QUESTION. A sociopath is someone who engages in criminal behavior because there's literally no other way to survive. A sociopath is someone society has abandoned and then punishes for doing what they need to do to survive. A psychopath sadistically enjoys causing harm
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https://twitter.com/1stKiersten/status/1460411381136637953

& chaos HOWEVER INFLATED NARCISSISTIC GRANDIOSITY CAN MAKE SOMEONE ENGAGE IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY THINKING TO BE A HERO AND THEN CRY VICTIM WHEN ITS CLEAR HE WAS THE BAD GUY INSTEAD! I say with all caution & with 3 caveats noted that;
1) we've not the background to fully
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inform us nor 2)unscripted observational data
3) & all we do have is pre-during-& post crime scene behavioral data;
It seems much more likely inflated narcisistic grandiosity is the case with Rittenhouse thus his subsequent collapse into a kind of deflated self-
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consoling self-centered depression when it turns out he's the Criminal not the hero. I think that part is real. I also think he's scared shitless and his posing and those stoking his ego is the only thing holding him together at this point.
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& don't mistake my explaintion for an excuse. There is none. Nor a plea for leniency. He murdered people point blank. But other than having done so as a way of indulging his ego we've little in t/way of actual SADISTIC BEHAVIOR ON REPEAT to support a finding of Psychopathy
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