Jessica B. Kelly's Blog, page 25

The Sinking Ship … The Witch Hunt

I spent most of the past week on vacation, traveling across the country to scope out a possible new home.   I had four flights during that time and each one brought visions to mind of the doomed European flight of a few weeks ago.  While I realized that such imaginings were not grounded in […]

A Peaceful Violence

People hold empathy for different groups in manners that are unequal.  Consider the activist that spends her time fighting for cause X.  Those afflicted with X get an unequal share of her empathy and her efforts.  Maybe the rest of the groups around her are in a relative deficit, but that does not mean that […]

RXHF-107B

I wrote recently about how many faux psychopaths seek to erase their uniqueness in order to blend in with the antisocial crowd.  While such a thought process is ultimately flawed, it does play to neurotypical biases.  Antisocials recognize the uniqueness of each individual who is psychopathic or otherwise antisocial while the neurotypical seeks to paint […]

Eternal War

There is something so powerful about dehumanization.  Nations often use dehumanization to turn the gaze of the public elsewhere, anywhere but toward the realm of empathy for the enemy.  The horrid image that I lead this post with is a reminder of the bigotry and hatred that can arise as a result of dehumanization.  We […]

Into the Pit

A tumblr follower sent me this note: There is a strange but empowering freedom to knowing that almost every single person you have ever met, and almost every single person you will ever meet, would fear and despise you and wish for your death if they actually knew the truth about you. You can draw […]

Sweat

Working is a sore subject for most psychopaths.  We are insatiable bored, yet we rarely feel the need to fill such boredom with activities that are not of our own choosing.  I’m sure that we all recognize that we need money and that employment is a recognizable source of income, but we are also torn […]

Ignoring the Facebook Age – Unfriending Most Everyone You’ve Ever Met

A reader asked me a vague question regarding friendship.  Am I friends with other psychopaths?  Am I friends with neurotypicals?  Am I friends with anyone?  I have at most one friend.  The reasons will become clear by the end of this post, but I would like the neurotypical reader, especially, to think hard about what actually […]

Heresy

The quickest way to be discovered as a fake is to lack personality.  Too many false psychopaths try to fit in by appearing to be prototypical.  They attempt to win legitimacy through descriptions of lurid dreams and deeds without offering anything of what makes them, “them”.  They are walking caricatures, devoid of individuality and sanity. […]

Mutually Assured Construction

Relationships have been on my mind a lot lately.  I’ve been torn between seeking a more traditional relationship where there are expectations of love, emotional bonding, and care and those relationships that I’d be more likely to succeed with.  I’ve listed what is needed for the former.  However, I have begun to think of the […]

Reader Question: Flying too Close to the Sun

A respected psychopathic acquaintance of mine over on tumblr gave me the following prompt to write about this evening: Physical illness and psychopathy. Do we handle illness better than normal people and if not, would typical behavior bite one in the ass? (You have the flu and insist on going out poorly dressed for the […]