Slightly off topic. Perhaps some of the confusion over psychopathy arises from the fact that there are neurotypicals with very low empathy: narcissists. Although I think it should be easy to distinguish the two, perhaps too much focus on empathy as the key distinguishing element causes confusion.
hey Athena!! Today you write "its my sub-stack"- LOL. So I went to substack.com:- It has ALL your prior posts!!! WoW!! Great to know! (I missed this post: Let's take a test)
How is SS for you? There are some Twitter people, now leaving, who are moving to SubStack.
On their bio, handle, they say "subscribe to my SubStack".
One of our friends, wrote today, he does not feel fear. Please don't answer for me: I asked "how would you know that?" But I mean: "How would I know that?"
Maybe I felt it a long time ago and just stopped feeling it? Certainly I experienced fear at some point?
I think maybe I just didn't like it and turned it down or off.
-smiles- Thanks for your great work. The things you bring up are really meaningful and important to so many of us.
Apr 20, 2022·edited Apr 20, 2022Liked by Athena Walker
"34. I have conned people to get money from them.
Sure have."
Interesting to hear. Long or short term con games? Did you use sympathy stories to gain people's trust in you to get them to more easily pay out? Just curious as last year I got talking with somebody on Discord/on a gaming community who told me (and others before me) she had terminal cancer and (yeah I know you advise others not to do this but for somebody like me it's far easier said than done) so initially I gave her some benefit of the doubt. Others mentioned she lied a lot, but I considered she might just be misunderstood. Over time though, I couldn't help but find certain things she said suspect. She never actually outright asked me for money, but did claim to be in a bad financial situation while living in a big house. I had to wonder at the time if the goal was to make me feel bad for her so I'd offer financial help (though I didn't)!
Slightly off topic. Perhaps some of the confusion over psychopathy arises from the fact that there are neurotypicals with very low empathy: narcissists. Although I think it should be easy to distinguish the two, perhaps too much focus on empathy as the key distinguishing element causes confusion.
I any personality test worth taking?
A lot of your responses were just straight up funny. I mean, not the content itself, but the deadpan way they were stated
hey Athena!! Today you write "its my sub-stack"- LOL. So I went to substack.com:- It has ALL your prior posts!!! WoW!! Great to know! (I missed this post: Let's take a test)
How is SS for you? There are some Twitter people, now leaving, who are moving to SubStack.
On their bio, handle, they say "subscribe to my SubStack".
One of our friends, wrote today, he does not feel fear. Please don't answer for me: I asked "how would you know that?" But I mean: "How would I know that?"
Maybe I felt it a long time ago and just stopped feeling it? Certainly I experienced fear at some point?
I think maybe I just didn't like it and turned it down or off.
-smiles- Thanks for your great work. The things you bring up are really meaningful and important to so many of us.
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From Vanity Fair on the Blue Check Exodus:
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"34. I have conned people to get money from them.
Sure have."
Interesting to hear. Long or short term con games? Did you use sympathy stories to gain people's trust in you to get them to more easily pay out? Just curious as last year I got talking with somebody on Discord/on a gaming community who told me (and others before me) she had terminal cancer and (yeah I know you advise others not to do this but for somebody like me it's far easier said than done) so initially I gave her some benefit of the doubt. Others mentioned she lied a lot, but I considered she might just be misunderstood. Over time though, I couldn't help but find certain things she said suspect. She never actually outright asked me for money, but did claim to be in a bad financial situation while living in a big house. I had to wonder at the time if the goal was to make me feel bad for her so I'd offer financial help (though I didn't)!