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The Role Of Sociopaths In Movies

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Most believe that sociopaths are the crazy murderers in movies that have no remorse what so ever, but this article proves that stereotype wrong. This is about the story of a sociopath and the things that run through their head and their lack of feelings. She starts off with a description of her childhood, unlike most sociopaths she grew up in a healthy loving home. She gives a few stories as examples to show how her first few signs of sociopathy, these stories surprised me because she sounded so malicious and unruly but unruffled at the same time. This is an example of one of her first memories of being a sociopath which really shows her composed, wicked side, “The first recurring dream I can remember was about killing him

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