This reads like one sociopath's dissertation abstract on another!
Sociopath? I don’t fit the profile of a sociopath very well, and I don’t believe we know
Woodcutter TV well enough yet to hang that type of label on him. I surely have anti-social tendencies, but lack the key symptoms of a “sociopath”… I’m not a pathological liar (but how would you know?), I don’t act impulsively (I carefully think things out before action), I’ve never in my life cheated on my wife or girlfriend (any of them), I can laugh at myself (I can “take it” as well as I can “dish it out”), I’m almost never bored (I can always find something to do that occupies my time constructively), I don’t blame others for my mistakes or problems (I admit them readily, and actively work to remedy them), I know I have faults and what they are (I try to minimize their impact, but don’t get overly concerned, everybody has faults), I’ve never had a problem holding a steady job, I’m not subject to fits of rage (and never enter into conflict unless I’m perfectly calm and collected), and I’m fully capable of feeling remorse and empathy (although I have none for those that refuse to help themselves).
But… Along with dropping out of school, some minor scrapes with the law, and some drug abuse as a young man/teen… I can be manipulative at times, believe myself an authority on occasion, I’m a secretive lone-wolf type, and I’m certainly charming :hmm3grin2orange: … … … anti-social, but not sociopathic.
Well
uncle, I certainly don't feel a
dislike towards him… at this point I’m neutral. If he’s truly here “
just for the laughs” he’ll get bored and move on before I know that answer. But if he sticks around, settles in, removes the protective shell he’s built around himself, and drops the meaningless drivel… Being I’m an old bow hunter myself, I have a certain respect for people possessing the self-discipline to achieve proficiency in that sport, so there's something... And (so far) it appears he’s fully capable of remaining objective (or non-emotional) in the face of criticism… gotta’ like that. Only time will tell, and I don’t hold a man’s past against him… even past posts on AS.