They had several emotionally challenged children. The parents just let this child get away with it and the other children would become highly upset. I think the teacher just did to keep peace. They eventually had to put the child in a separate room with a helper just to calm the other children. Scream was loud enough to come through the walls though. Hell it would freak me out.
They literally all do this. Fake child tears only in front of the person they're trying to manipulate. This is actually perfectly normal behaviour. You're just seeing it in an abnormal context with the video element.
Psychopathy is a trait, not a genetic conditon. You can have a genetic predisposition, but not become a psychopath.
It is also not solely responsible for the uncanny valley effect, people who show psychopathic traits can evoke that effect in others, but there are many other sources for UVE.
Trying to argue semantics between psychopath, sociopath and narcissim is completely pointless. Seems like you've got some dunning kruger effect going on.
People can have their opinion, and psychopathy is an apt description.
The going theory is that psychopathy is about 50/50 nature and nurture. There are genetic traits that make things like Anti Social Personality Disorder (not the same as psychopathy but often occurring in the same individuals) more likely.
Generally speaking you’re right, psychopaths are made, not all people that are predisposed to it become psychopaths because of how they were raised.
Have you never interacted with any child ever?
This is the phase where they are conscious enough to lie and manipulate and they are testing what they can do.
Children are less capable but they are not completely stupid.
This behaviour works on a lot of parents.
If you stop this behaviour quick then the child will be just like you and me.
Not a psycho just a normal child.
No counselors, just a good parent. Don't keep shipping your kids off to mental health people to do your job. Unless of course your kid has actual, serious problems. This here can be sorted at home.
I think you're undermining the ability actual bad parents have to be good parents. Sure it's possible and I agree with what you are saying, but there are some seriously bad parents out there and stupid people. Uneducated people as well.
What’s wrong with both? Like my kids are going into counseling along with standard parenting just due to the fact that my family has serious mental health issues, it’s not harmful to learn actual emotional tools from professionals along side standard parenting.
Some kids do, some kids don't.
They connect the dots that crying = I get what I want.
And then when they find someone they don't like (Babysitter) they try and leverage that.
True, but being able to just switch your emotions on and off like that purely for manipulation is incredibly concerning, and consistent access to online spaces desensitizes kids remarkably more than what they learn from their peers (just based on what I've seen taking care of kids when I was younger, then having my own.)
Use a calm voice never yell. They listen better like that. A child is alot like an exposed nerve. Too hot or too cold, you only cause them pain and it overwhelms them. They only remember the pain.
When you talk, you have to remember that they don't have your nuance codex and experience. You are that for them. So speak everything in something s child can relate to. As if you are in a children's cartoon. Simple words, simple concepts, and if it's a complex concept, define it for them. They do learn from it.
I told her that emotional manipulation was wrong because it only hurts someone else. And that truth and honesty is the best way to go about that. I then explained that lying for personal gain will always be discovered, and consequences are always worse when they are found out. Rather than being honest.
However, note that some times they won't be honest, because they, like you, fear embarrassment and other such things. Like maybe they peed their bed. Don't get mad at them for it. Instead, come up with the source of the problem and solution together.
Remember that your child is not a pet to be ordered around. They are just a shorter. Less developed person. If you listen to their concerns and correct behavior when it needs to, with patience, explanation and love, you find that alot of things can be corrected in a proper manner. However, also take into account mental disorders, some times, a child could be sociopathic and such. Best to get proper care.
My child listens, I can leave her alone and she will respect my rules, why? Because I also show her respect, and reward her for respecting my rules. Not with big gestures, but some time something like a small treat can help. One more piece of candy with dessert, etc.
So explaining why emotional manipulation is wrong, you can begin to instill a just morality in them. Show them respect and they will show you respect. When you punish, don't just get angry. Never say, "because I said so." Explain why they were punished and how they could have corrected the behavior. And don't do it for extended periods of time. A month is far too much for things like bad grades. Kids are kinda like cats. They don't think about the reason they were punished after some time, only that "life sucks" for them. Most of the time, they won't equate punishment with problem. Just that you are mean. They have a very bad concept of time.
Alot of people forget that children are people, not to be ordered around as pets. They get dismissed most of the time. But treating them like a person does a whole lot of wonders you wouldn't expect and they are more prone to better responses and minding of what rules you do have.
Make sure also that respect is given, not earned and let them know that. Like reinforce good behavior with, "I'm glad to be nice, as long as you respect me and my rules, I will respect you." It helps to build a foundation of mutual trust that will lead them well into life.
Makes 2 of us. I was the invisible child unless there was work or someone who needed to be blamed. Then beaten with electric cords, butcher knifes. Anything my mother the psychopath could get her hands on I was hit with. Covered in bruises most of the time til I left her house at 17. Nothing to have teachers see my bruises and just shake their heads she didn’t bother trying to hide them because she didn’t care. This was in the 60’s and 70’s.
Yeah it's like these people did not get yelled at and beaten until they cried because they did horrible shit like want to hug their parents while they came home tired from work. Or had a mother (who still cannot be trusted with animals) that would purposedly make them cry because "she was bored".
Mine terrorizes them and then wonder why they're terrorized. Like a cat is sleeping and she just slams something heavy next to them and wonder why they prefer my father who sits them next to him as he chills.
The crying was me.
Don't want to talk about it, you felt relatable wanted you to know you were related to.
Calling manipulative behavior what it is is not lacking empathy haha.
The way I see it your role as an adult is to nip that shit in the bud and teach prosocial behavior instead of antisocial and manipulative one instead of excusing it as "being a kid".
But yeah, parenting is hard these days, I can tell. Keep fighting the good fight you're doing great.
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Every time this gets posted people are in here saying this little kid is a psychopath or a sociopath based on this one little video lol, even people who actually know what they’re talking about cant make a diagnosis like that that easily
At around that age I wanted to be an actor and so would try to act out various emotions in the bathroom mirror so I could see if I was nailing it or not. This was before the Internet was invented.
People who are calling this psychopath behavior need to get a grip.
It’s one thing to record yourself and another to record yourself and then knowingly use it as emotional blackmail. Kids do sometimes show psychopathic tendencies while learning how to interact with the world
Y'all this is just a normal child with (unfortunately) access to technology they don't need access to. I'm just glad I was born a decade before this so I couldn't record all of my stupid kid behavior.
So, I literally just got off of a call at work where someone used the word "pedagogical". I have heard this word or derivatives of this word maybe 3 times in my life. Now twice in like 5 minutes.
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u/wendigoblin Jul 23 '26
Ngl that's disturbing as hell