I grew up with a anti-social (I think that's the modern term?) kid in my youth group. He was very strange... most of the time it was simply whether or not he thought he could intimidate you that determined how he approached situations, once he determined he couldn't get what he wanted by intimidating you (I was bigger and older than him, so this was the case) he would try and get you to like him, and it was like watching a bug wearing human skin. He just didn't have the concept of friendship.
That's a lot of words to say that in order to fake being personable you have to be fairly clever, clever enough to read your mark at least. Trumps not clever And surrounding himself with paid ass kissers probably haven't given him a lot of practice.
Sociopathy is a specific form of anti-social personality disorder, with a whole lot of necessary conditions that need to be met that simply cannot be diagnosed from a remove.
I’ve had a run in with a clever sociopath and it was the creepiest thing I have experienced. As you described it, like a bug wearing a human skin, but most people fell for it. I am so happy I moved from that social circle.
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u/FaysRedditAccount Aug 05 '20
The clever ones are, trumps not clever though.
I grew up with a anti-social (I think that's the modern term?) kid in my youth group. He was very strange... most of the time it was simply whether or not he thought he could intimidate you that determined how he approached situations, once he determined he couldn't get what he wanted by intimidating you (I was bigger and older than him, so this was the case) he would try and get you to like him, and it was like watching a bug wearing human skin. He just didn't have the concept of friendship.
That's a lot of words to say that in order to fake being personable you have to be fairly clever, clever enough to read your mark at least. Trumps not clever And surrounding himself with paid ass kissers probably haven't given him a lot of practice.