A significant percentage of sociopaths passed for normal—they were CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, politicians, defense lawyers, the like. Some didn’t even realize why they never quite fit in, existing on the outskirts, maybe getting fired more often than their peers, maybe ruining a few more relationships than would generally be considered normal. But it was a leap for the average person to add all that up and diagnose themselves as a sociopath. After all, they’d probably never murdered anyone, and that’s what the media and pop culture told people sociopaths did. Psychopaths, on the other
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