"The second tip is to be emotion-free, something that she's found increasingly easy because her emotional range is roughly equivalent to that of a three-year-old."
This bit made me laugh out loud... has she ever met a 3 year old?! They are literally THE MOST EMOTIONAL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET!!!
Emotions aren't something you gradually learn to have as you get older, they just are, and you gradually learn to control them better.
Apart from that all I have to say about this woman is that she is very very very confused...
I know her. She struck me as a fraud immediately. I saw her on YouTube, then accidentally bought her book a few months later not realising it was her. I'd love to see Dr. Phil suss her out. But, something is definitely wrong with her. It's not killing the opossum without emotion that was in her pool, either. I vaguely remember her explaining that swimming lessons were being taught in that pool, so it was imperative to take action. What else could she do? That isn't psychopathy. I think she's a con artist. The fixed smile is so off-putting. Maybe her childhood was damaging in ways that she can't face, so I don't want to be too harsh. Athena, thanks for showing her inconsistencies, which are dumbfounding. I'd love to know how she got through law school. But, I just can't suffer through all of her material.
I went to PsychopathyIS, which I'd never heard of. Again, more confusion, and as you said, quite the grift. I looked at the story the 'psychopath' told about beating his dog when he was 5 years old. He still feels shame over it, yet thinks that he's a psychopath??? His crimes of greed don't necessarily mean psychopathy, either. Mostly neurotypicals do those. This site is a grift, but I believe that we'll see more like it due to the fear and fascination about the subject. And, people who love someone who they believe is a psychopath want to 'save' them. They won't accept that there is no treatment needed, wanted, or that will change a thing.
I remember seeing her on YouTube and being puzzled by the drowning rat story. Very strange person and I took the story to mean that one morning she came to the pool and found a dead rat floating there and due to squeamishness she closed the pool for the day so she didn't have to deal with it
"Be emotion free"... I'm pretty sure that advice would give my therapist a heart attack. The audacity of this author. Even if she isn't lying about her diagnosis, which she is, simply being a psychopath does not qualify one to give life advice.
Yes people who are different can offer valuable insights, and absolutely everyone gives advice to their friends based on their own personal bias, but people look at psychopaths, see their high self-esteem, lack of stress, and charisma, and ask them how to achieve their success.
It's disingenuous to present oneself as having a condition where lack of stress and high self esteem are guaranteed, since birth mind you, and then tell others how they can achieve the same. Winning the genetic lottery and becoming a psychopath is not a viable method to mental well being.
Ps: I like to make comments as I read the text so there might be multiples comments from me lol
People who claim to have a disorder and get the spotlight for it (not in an actual educative way) when they actually don't makes me think automatically that they have no idea what it is to have the disorder. as you said in the text, it's not necessarily a hindrance, but it's not also a paradise.
I got quite satisfied when I got my autism diagnosis because now things in my life and how I live, and used to live, make sense. However, I don't go out and about telling everyone that I'm autistic when It's unnecessary. It has its perks, but at the end of the day, it demands a lot of effort from me just to blend in a world that is literally not made for us neurodivergents. It's a constant battle and I don't wake up in the morning, look at the mirror and say "one more amazing day to be autistic" excitedly.
I don't mind when people claim disorders that they don't have. On the other hand, I think they should at least understand the real deal of having those disorders/neurodivergencies, and not make it look like it's a super power or something to brag about.
I remember you mentioning her over on Quora a while ago and I can't believe she still manages to get her "story" out there after all these years. You'd think people would have caught on by now.
M.E Thomas was one of the non-criminal "sociopaths/psychopaths" (quotes on that because I'm not sure anymore lol) that I came across when I started learning more about it. Nowadays there are some things she says that I'm like "hmm... not convincing enough"
So I wonder, in a few words, what is a psychopath? (sorry if that's a redundant question since it's being asked all the time). I ask it because I see people all around that show some traits of ASPD and whatnot, focusing on the lack of emotional empathy and low intensity emotions and claiming to be sociopaths/psychopaths. That makes kind of confused
Oof, my brain felt like it was melting reading those excerpts of the article and her own nonsensical statements. It really reads like a cringy attention-seeking chuunibyou.
Actually, it reminds me of this scene in a manga where a classmate is wailing about being tortured by spirits, making a total spectacle of herself at school, her two friends sympathizing on the side while she's essentially collapsed on the floor. The protagonist, who actually has spiritual sight, in a well-meaning but naive move, goes to comfort the girl, saying tha it's okay and she isn't haunted by ghosts. The girl bites back viciously saying that the protagonist has no clue what she's talking about and continues her performance. She is totally this girl LOL.
"The second tip is to be emotion-free, something that she's found increasingly easy because her emotional range is roughly equivalent to that of a three-year-old."
This bit made me laugh out loud... has she ever met a 3 year old?! They are literally THE MOST EMOTIONAL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET!!!
Emotions aren't something you gradually learn to have as you get older, they just are, and you gradually learn to control them better.
Apart from that all I have to say about this woman is that she is very very very confused...
I know her. She struck me as a fraud immediately. I saw her on YouTube, then accidentally bought her book a few months later not realising it was her. I'd love to see Dr. Phil suss her out. But, something is definitely wrong with her. It's not killing the opossum without emotion that was in her pool, either. I vaguely remember her explaining that swimming lessons were being taught in that pool, so it was imperative to take action. What else could she do? That isn't psychopathy. I think she's a con artist. The fixed smile is so off-putting. Maybe her childhood was damaging in ways that she can't face, so I don't want to be too harsh. Athena, thanks for showing her inconsistencies, which are dumbfounding. I'd love to know how she got through law school. But, I just can't suffer through all of her material.
I went to PsychopathyIS, which I'd never heard of. Again, more confusion, and as you said, quite the grift. I looked at the story the 'psychopath' told about beating his dog when he was 5 years old. He still feels shame over it, yet thinks that he's a psychopath??? His crimes of greed don't necessarily mean psychopathy, either. Mostly neurotypicals do those. This site is a grift, but I believe that we'll see more like it due to the fear and fascination about the subject. And, people who love someone who they believe is a psychopath want to 'save' them. They won't accept that there is no treatment needed, wanted, or that will change a thing.
I remember seeing her on YouTube and being puzzled by the drowning rat story. Very strange person and I took the story to mean that one morning she came to the pool and found a dead rat floating there and due to squeamishness she closed the pool for the day so she didn't have to deal with it
"Be emotion free"... I'm pretty sure that advice would give my therapist a heart attack. The audacity of this author. Even if she isn't lying about her diagnosis, which she is, simply being a psychopath does not qualify one to give life advice.
Yes people who are different can offer valuable insights, and absolutely everyone gives advice to their friends based on their own personal bias, but people look at psychopaths, see their high self-esteem, lack of stress, and charisma, and ask them how to achieve their success.
It's disingenuous to present oneself as having a condition where lack of stress and high self esteem are guaranteed, since birth mind you, and then tell others how they can achieve the same. Winning the genetic lottery and becoming a psychopath is not a viable method to mental well being.
Final fantasy rules! My favorite franchise.
Ps: I like to make comments as I read the text so there might be multiples comments from me lol
People who claim to have a disorder and get the spotlight for it (not in an actual educative way) when they actually don't makes me think automatically that they have no idea what it is to have the disorder. as you said in the text, it's not necessarily a hindrance, but it's not also a paradise.
I got quite satisfied when I got my autism diagnosis because now things in my life and how I live, and used to live, make sense. However, I don't go out and about telling everyone that I'm autistic when It's unnecessary. It has its perks, but at the end of the day, it demands a lot of effort from me just to blend in a world that is literally not made for us neurodivergents. It's a constant battle and I don't wake up in the morning, look at the mirror and say "one more amazing day to be autistic" excitedly.
I don't mind when people claim disorders that they don't have. On the other hand, I think they should at least understand the real deal of having those disorders/neurodivergencies, and not make it look like it's a super power or something to brag about.
She is a oportunist.Next time she will have NPD with ASPD.
I have seen this lady on YouTube too, ages ago now. I hate to tell you this but when I first found this blog I wondered if you might be her!
I soon worked out that you weren’t. It’s obvious. You are a mermaid, she’s not.
I remember you mentioning her over on Quora a while ago and I can't believe she still manages to get her "story" out there after all these years. You'd think people would have caught on by now.
I'm not sure. I feel like it was a newer series... maybe Mieruko-chan??? (note: a great comedic horror imho)
M.E Thomas was one of the non-criminal "sociopaths/psychopaths" (quotes on that because I'm not sure anymore lol) that I came across when I started learning more about it. Nowadays there are some things she says that I'm like "hmm... not convincing enough"
So I wonder, in a few words, what is a psychopath? (sorry if that's a redundant question since it's being asked all the time). I ask it because I see people all around that show some traits of ASPD and whatnot, focusing on the lack of emotional empathy and low intensity emotions and claiming to be sociopaths/psychopaths. That makes kind of confused
Oof, my brain felt like it was melting reading those excerpts of the article and her own nonsensical statements. It really reads like a cringy attention-seeking chuunibyou.
Actually, it reminds me of this scene in a manga where a classmate is wailing about being tortured by spirits, making a total spectacle of herself at school, her two friends sympathizing on the side while she's essentially collapsed on the floor. The protagonist, who actually has spiritual sight, in a well-meaning but naive move, goes to comfort the girl, saying tha it's okay and she isn't haunted by ghosts. The girl bites back viciously saying that the protagonist has no clue what she's talking about and continues her performance. She is totally this girl LOL.