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Feb 11, 2022Liked by Athena Walker

Yeah, it's interesting how women fall for emotional manipulation. Seen that - an acquaintance had a pretty harsh break up with his partner (it was harsh for him because she simply didn't want to be with him as she didn't want marriage and kids). Somehow all of his female flatmates turned against the ex, resorting to cyberstalking and sending abusive messages. That she is a scumbag and because of ending the relationship, the guy is now hooked on drugs and has suicidal thoughts. The male flatmates weren't as a emotional, their response was more like 'that sucks but you will find someone else'.

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Feb 10, 2022Liked by Athena Walker

Athena, why do you think neurotypicals struggle to fake genuine emotions compared to psychopaths?

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Mar 28, 2022Liked by Athena Walker

Oh god, neurotypical emotions (sigh.)

Please train yourself to respond only when said emotion has departed. You'll probably realize it just wasn't worth your emotional energy.

Then you'll either deal with the situation rationally, or decide to move on.

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Feb 14, 2022·edited Feb 14, 2022Liked by Athena Walker

Why would that man cook up such a story ? Was the end goal just to bask in the sympathy showered by women ? Or he wanted to

somehow take advantage of the most gullible one?

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Feb 13, 2022Liked by Athena Walker

In my tuition, I had a friend for a short while. She was very friendly and outgoing, so I liked hanging out with her. Then I had to change my schedule from weekdays to weekends, so now we were in different classes. Needless to say that meant we would not meet anymore. I had informed her of this on our last class together,& also told her to send me the notes of one class I had missed. She agreed , but started to ghost me from then on. To check whether she was getting my messages or not, I wished her on her b'day and she thanked me in reply, and immediately started ghosting again. I wonder what the deal with her was? I never realized anything was off with her.

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Feb 12, 2022Liked by Athena Walker

Are you able to ask Athena a private question? email or anything?

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Nice pun

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I have in the past found myself playing along with manipulators just to see what they'd do. In fact I once gave one a small amount of money just to see if they changed their approach and amazingly they faked their own death.

I was amused.

For the most part I'm trying to figure out what they're fishing for

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I’d be interested in your take on this woman’s article in the NY Post:

“Christie Smythe, reporter who fell for Martin Shkreli, defends herself on Twitter”

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

This is the good stuff.

Also worth noting that due to the contageous nature of emotions, emotional people who aren't self-aware can incredibly manipulative by instinct - without having the slightest notion they're doing so. They may even imagine themselves to be wholly genuine and spontaneous, and the very opposite of a manipulative creep.

It could be why these types grate the nerves of skilled manipulators. It may comparable to a seasoned violinist listening to a clumsy apprentice fiddle about.

This situation here comes to mind:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3n2yra/til_that_elon_musk_once_told_his_exwife_that_she/

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