#sociopaths lie

[truelovescamrecovery]

Why Do We Believe Lies?

Why do we believe the lies the narcissist or sociopath tells? Because we're normal. It's normal to believe what people say. It's normal to make sense of things that seem odd.

Why do we believe the lies the narcissist or sociopath tells? Because we’re normal. It’s normal to believe what people say. Here’s the thing, it’s normal to believe other people. believing others is hard-wired into our normal human hearts. We’re born this way. We trust and believe others as such a regular part of life, it’s something we barely notice. Continue reading Why Do We Believe Lies?

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Another Pattern: She's a Saboteur

I can't stay here, it's off brand-London

I can't stay here, fire hazard-South Africa

I can't stay here, security threat-Nigeria

Conclusion

When she's pre-booked for "complimentary" hotel accommodations that are beneath her standards, MEgain (Queen Jezebel 2.0) pretends to go along with "their plan," but all the while she's taking deliberate steps to undermine the reservation.

Palace aides observed a similar pattern during her 72 days of "work" in the BRF---she set-up the "role" to fail from the very beginning. #conartist

[hadesoftheladies]

at least one year of near bliss on this app and then the most rancid dumbass skanky conservative coomers came flooding my notifs and hee-heeing bc they think im a loser cuck male who's here to prey on girls bc they literally can't imagine men being anything other than rape apes, including themselves. god conservative men are the lowest animal on the planet. and i just know most of the women in their lives don't suspect a thing. stay safe, radblr. especially with this 4B stuff going mainstream. the monkeys are mad.

[masterreborn]

okay for real though what was up with moffat’s rampant casual misuse of the terms “psychopath” and “sociopath” back in the 2010s. like i can think of half a dozen instances in doctor who s5-7 alone and that’s not even mentioning whatever the fuck was going on with bbc sherlock. why did he do that

[boiled-dennis]

yeah you post really insightful, thought-provoking things about the gang's daddy issues/body image/repression/whatever the fuck else But are you normal about narcissists? are you normal about sociopaths or psychopaths?

[thewritingpossum]

Heartbreaking: the worst person on this show just made a great point

[padfootastic]

being greedy but i'm interested in your answers for 6, 16, and 18 for the ask game <3

hello sharmz 💜💜 thank u sm!! (for kickstarting this, i was so worried it’d go ignored lol 💀)

6. Do you have pets?

sadly no :(( always wanted one (i used to be obsessed w dogs earlier but covid,,,did something,,,and now i’m just tolerant of any and all creatures but not especially passionate about one) but my dad has a Thing about ‘caging’ animals in the house and never really liked it. my grandma did have a german shepherd when i was young and i grew up alongside her and have the fondest memories w her tho!!! she was the absolute best <33

16. Do you have any tattoos? If not, would like to?

this is another sad no 😔😔 for all my piercings, tattoos are still a bit of a no-go in ~desi households and i’ve been trying to convince my mom for *so long* my god. i want to get a whole sleeve on at least one hand, including an arm band on my forearm (so hot?? for no reason??) and just. idk. fill my body up with a lot of doodles and shapes hehe

18. Do you like reading? If yes what's your favourite book?

absolutely obsessed w it. i go through phases where i’m either in reading slumps or going thru 30+ books a month easy. for the past couple years, i’ve only been able to stomach super chill romcoms because escapism is the name of the game 😎 don’t really have fav books,,,,but a few of the ones i loved recently are:

- Talia Hobbert’s Brown Sisters series (esp the second one!!)

- Joely Sue Burkhart’s Their Vampire Queen Series (basically just sex and blood and vampires; it’s a polyam series of like. 7? books and i love each and every one of them <3)

Get To Know Me!!

[snake-and-apples]

That is you flirting, you're right. Didn't you tell me yesterday that you love me? I am wishing upon heaven and hell that you don't move back here. I don't want to get mixed up with you again. You create unnecessary chaos and drama that I really don't need right now. I definitely don't need this shit with you. You always have to have one on hold, don't you, just in case? You're so horrible of a human being you can't even look at yourself in the mirror with admiration, can you? You know the truths to your lies, I bet you do!

You may not realize just how much you give away over a time period. Tiny bits of truths come out with each new slightly different version of your stories. You're also a creature of habit and thus have become easily predictable to me. I know what you will do before you do based on any outcome of a situation you come across. Happy, sad, angry, depressed, or whatever mood you may be in on any given day.

I don't want you here at all. I want you to leave our daughter alone, she has told me she doesn't really like you cause you yell too much. That's what she remembers from her trip to Kentucky, congratulations. She is a very smart little girl, she knows and understands way more that a child her should be capable of. She is witty and sassy too. She is a force to be reckoned with and I'm not sure you can with her yet. At least not without demoralizing and tearing her down to get your win. You will ruin and destroy her with how you are with people. Whether you see it or not, you're poison to anyone who gets close to you. You change into your true self behind those closed doors where no one else can see the real you. That's where the mask you hold up comes down and then you begin to feed upon your victim. You slowly degrade a person by trying to make them believe in your lies then you treat them like their crazy for questioning your word. All of sudden the person is too emotional according to you. When in fact the person is emotionally in the right but you make them feel wrong anyways.

You deceive manipulate, and scheme against a person too. You create impossible standards to a person to follow but don't apply to you. This creates failure for you to use against that person cause you knew they couldn't adhere to your extremity of standards. So now you have new ammo against them, you can say they aren't honest or loyal, or they don't love you due to such failure.

You really are a text book Narcissist. Ugh! Leave us alone and don't move here. You're not wanted by anyone here. You're also not welcomed at camp either. Find somewhere new if you so move back. You shouldn't have lied to them about me and perhaps you should have treated them better after you left.. you know instead of putting them and me down the way you did. You sug your own hole on that one. We are people and we have feelings that usually formulate into our opinions about you.

All done venting, just don't.

[robertsbarbie]

number 84672 of things my mother has don’t to make me unable to trust my own mind: back when i was still drinking soda i had a 12 pack of coke cans and they were disappearing really fast and i knew i wasn’t drinking them that fast but when i asked my mother about it she said she sure as hell wasn’t drinking them so i just thought i was crazy and didn’t actually count correctly COME TO FIND OUT when cleaning the garage she put them in her box of pepsi :)

[yuripira4e]

This is so incredibly real. Like yes they’re AWFUL and they’re LOSERS but that’s not the issue we’re trying to fix here

“your characters need to be likeable” allow me to introduce you to the very worst guy who ever lived

[clowningaroundmars]

so i just watched heretic...

i have Lots Of Thoughts and this might be super revealing of me and my character but fuck it, this is my blog!!! so i'm posting this

so for starters: i think it's a brilliant movie to come out in this irony-poisoned day and age esp with mr. reed being the Insufferable Reddit Atheist trapping women in his home and monologuing at them abt his dumb "beliefs" for hours

and truly, this is a movie that subverts trope after trope, and really has us believing that reed was a true atheist, completely denouncing the concept of any religion or god... until the grand reveal at the end: he believes that control is the one true religion, and all organized religion that comes after is simply an iteration of that.

this is coming from a man that, mind you, has built his entire fucking house as a complete maze in the shape of the layout of the 9 circles of hell in dante's inferno, buys blueberry pie scented candles to convince ppl that he has a wife baking pastries in the kitchen, and forces his captors to pretend to be resurrected old ladies so they can mime a religious miracle as he kills them off one by one.

when barnes challenged him and his stupid rhetoric that all 10,000 sects of organized religion are asinine and stupid-- since none of them are The One True Religion-- she pointed out his flawed logic in thinking that if judaism is the og monotheistic religion, then why doesn't it have more followers hmmm?

he never took into account jewish persecution throughout history, esp the mfing holocaust (not to mention the fact that judaism is a closed religion? you can't convert into being a jew)

and that's really the crux of it all, isn't it. mr. reed doesn't even stop to think abt the suffering of other ppl whatsoever, he doesn't account for lost lives or closed sects or whatever else might affect numbers. to him, these religions are just a game. everything is a game. like monopoly, he thinks everyone is simply a pawn and that if ppl's ~beliefs~ were true then why can't god save them? why are ppl so utterly predictable?

(spoiler alert: they're not. the old lady whispering her "prophecy" to the girls gave them a small warning inside it that she hoped would save them. and it kinda did! reed was forced to re-route and improvise since he didn't expect the lady to go off-script)

he does kind of have a point that religion can be used as forms of control, sure, and control has arguably existed long before anyone formed any kind of religion on this planet, but it is not the One True Religion that he was so obsessively seeking in his life.

when paxton put her hands together to pray for him in the end, even tho he was bleeding out crawling towards her to end her life, she did so fully well knowing that prayers don't work. she said so herself.

she said "ppl pray bc it's nice to think abt other ppl for a little while. even if it's you."

she also tried offering a little bit of comfort to the women trapped in the cages in his cellar, and her prayers were answered when barnes woke up from her throat being slashed and ended reed's life, saving paxton.

the One True Religion isn't the "religion" that has you manipulating every single detail in your life in order to lure and torture innocent ppl into conforming to your narrow point of view of the world.

it's kindness.

the one true religion that came before all known forms of religion that we know today is kindness

that's what faith is all abt!

[scottguy]

Article: J.D. Vance Freaks Out Over the Slightest Pushback in V.P. Debate

J.D. Vance Freaks Out Over the Slightest Pushback in V.P. Debate

[news4dzhozhar]

[scottguy]

And when they get caught lying or doing anything wrong, they double down on it because they have no shame and NO ethics at all.

🤡

Republicans lie about everything.

[457gf]

the salesman yandere alphabet.

₊˚ʚ warnings : gun usage, physical abuse, implications of murder, manipulation, the salesman is so bad at consent and doesn't really care about it, salesman being a sociopath / having aspd, reader being referred to as 'pet', implications of suicide

꒰⁐⁐⁐⁐୨୧⁐⁐⁐⁐꒱ ✦ Affection how do they show their love and affection? how intense would it get?

⟢ the salesman loves to show his affection for you, and if you're not a fan of pda, that's unfortunate for you. he's absolutely head over heels for you, and has been since he first saw you at that shitty station, head in your hands as you tried to cover your sniffles out of pure embarrassment of being in a public setting. when you finally looked up, catching eye contact together, you quickly tried to wipe your tears, hands shaking as you tried to ignore his staring gaze. you looked so pretty with tears streaming down your face, your nose red and eyes all puffy. he wasn't sure what had happened, but he decided from that moment on, he'd be the only one to make you cry.

he'd stalk you until he physically couldn't take the distance anymore and needed to be close to you and actually talk to you. his camera roll is full of nothing but photos of you in your home, out in public from afar, and even close up photos of your sleeping face. how'd he get in your room? don't worry about it. just don't remember to properly lock your window at night, or there will be a problem between you two. you don't want him thinking you don't love him, do you?

✦ Blood how messy are they willing to get when it comes to their darling?

⟢ the salesman loves to get bloody. it's his absolute favorite. he loves to dip his finger in the dripping puddle of blood, bringing it to his lips and tasting the iron flavor. there's nothing he wouldn't do for you, and that includes forcing whoever was behind you crying during your first meet to engage in one of his deadly games. he doesn’t necessarily like cheating, but he’d find a way to make sure they lost.

✦ Darling

aside from abduction, would they do anything against their darling’s will? ⟢ he loves to give you affection, even when you’re telling him to get off. he thinks you’re just being hard to get, and he adores it. he’ll cup your cheeks in his palms, pressing a gentle kiss to your lips even if you push him away. he knows you’ll finally show your undying love him one day.

✦ Exposed how much of their heart do they bare to their darling? how vulnerable are they when it comes to their darling?

⟢ he exposes what he can to you, though he’s not a big fan of being too vulnerable. you’re the only one that can truly make him feel certain emotions, which is quite unusual for him. he wouldn’t admit it, but part of the reason he’s so obsessed with you is because of what you do to his usually unwavering heart. he wants to pick you apart, and see why you’re so different from the rest.

✦ Fight how would they feel if their darling fought back?

⟢ he absolutely loves watching you try to fight back, because you both know there's absolutely no chance of you overpowering him. it just gives him an ego boost watching you cry and beg for him to let you go because you don't want to be here anymore. 'what a silly lie you're telling!', he thinks to himself. you want to be here. you love him. and he loves you!

✦ Game is this a game to them? how much would they enjoy watching their darling try to escape?

⟢ the salesman absolutely loves watching you try to escape, as previously said. though he loves his games, he doesn’t view his love for you as one.

✦ Hell what would be their darling’s worst experience with them?

⟢ his relentless touch even if you’re uncomfortable. he doesn’t know when to stop, because he’s never been told no. as a kid, he was always given what he wanted and nothing but, in hopes of him showing a change of heart. but it never happened, which is a big reason for his lack of morals.

✦ Ideals what kind of future do they have in mind for / with their darling?

⟢ he really really wants to get married and have a future with you. he believes that if you’re there long enough, you truly will fall in love with him. he thinks that you’d be perfect to bear his offspring.

✦ Jealousy do they get jealous? do they lash out or find a way to cope?

⟢ he is absolutely one to get jealous. he knows that he’s much better then anyone you’ve ever come into contact with, so his feelings of jealousy are more so that they don’t even deserve to glance in your direction. though he only allows you outside occasionally, what you wear is completely up to him. a dress? nope. not gonna work. he’s the only one allowed to ogle your pretty body.

✦ Kisses how do they act around or with their darling?

⟢ the salesman is so affectionate with you, he absolutely loves cuddling up with you whilst you’re tied up, unable to move. he loves to give you kisses everywhere, even if you’re objecting to his advances. he loves to treat you like everything is completely normal, that you’re just a happy married couple. he’ll make you two breakfast, force you to sit on the sofa and watch stupid romcoms with him, and even rant to you about work as if you’re concerned about his troubles.. you are.. aren’t you? you love him, right?

✦ Love Letters how would they go about courting or approaching their darling?

⟢ after stalking you, learning your schedule, your likes, your dislikes, he’ll pretend to bump into you, starting up a conversation about something you’re into. if he’s being honest, he couldn’t really care less about it. though the smile on your face does make it worth it. he slowly tries to worm his way into your life, and after awhile, he figures that now is the perfect time to finally make you his. keeping you captive in his basement was a pretty good plan if he says so himself! (he does).

✦ Mask are their true colors drastically different from the way they act around everyone else?

⟢ it's no surprise that many people find the behavior of the salesman to be quite.. weird. his personality changes are drastic, and it truly just depends on how he's feeling. it's apart of the job, after all. though, when most people see him walking the street, a clean put together man, they wouldn't suspect him of having a tied up girl at home. hey, if it helps, he loves you very much! a special kind of 'love' that nobody else gets to see from him.

✦ Naughty how would they punish their darling?

⟢ he’s one to get physical, though he’s not too big of a fan, believe it or not. a slap or two to get you “under control”, or a threat to put a bullet through your head, or even his to guilt you.

✦ Oppression how many rights would they take away from their darling?

⟢ the salesman is used to treating people as if they’re lesser then him, and that strays no different from you. he does believe you’re better then other people, but he truly believes that you were created and put on this earth just for him. in his eyes, he has full control over you. every now and then, he allows you to go outside, though trying to escape would be unwise. he’s always got an arm thrown around your shoulder, and his signature grin as he nods at people walking by. they’re disgusting, he thinks, but at least he can show off his pretty pet. you need his direct permission before you do most things, and if you break that rule, you could expect a slap or two.

✦ Patience how patient are they with their darling?

⟢ he does his best to be patient with you, though he does wear thin sometimes. when he’s stressed, he’s not the best to be around.

✦ Quit if their darling dies, leaves, or successfully escapes, would they ever be able to move on?

⟢ “and lately i’ve tried other things, but nothing can capture the sting.” is his mindset. he feels that the thrills in his games aren’t as exciting, the risks hardly existent for all he cares. if you died, he’d either ramp up the stakes to give him a higher chance of being with you, or simply take his anger out on everyone else.

if you left or escaped, there’s truly nothing that he wouldn’t do to find you. keep in mind, due to his work, he’s got loads of contacts all throughout the city. there’s not many places you can run without being found by him.

✦ Regret would they ever feel guilty about abducting their darling? would they ever let their darling go?

⟢ the salesman wouldn’t feel regret for abducting you. infact, he thinks that you should be grateful for him saving you from your boring life. he wouldn’t let you go.

✦ Stigma what brought about this side of them (childhood, curiosity, etc)?

⟢ ever since he was younger, he'd felt different from others. there were no emotions when a relative or someone he knew had passed away. he didn't grieve, he didn't mourn, he hardly even thought about it. the absence of emotions left people feeling uncomfortable around him, but he didn't mind. it's wasn't that he just didn't care about people's emotions, he just simply couldn't find himself to. his mother was always concerned, but it didn't bother him at all. in his eyes, this was normal and all that he'd known. there was nothing wrong with the way he was.

getting an invitation to be apart of the games as a guard was something he didn't expect, though it wasn't unwelcomed. working his way through the ranks, he got more intoxicated with power. being given a gun, holding the lives of people in his very hand, watching as they fell to their knees, begging to be spared, only to be met with a bullet piercing through their skin without any second thoughts whatsoever. it made him feel so strong, like he truly mattered in this world. he was doing good. he was getting rid of the worthless vermin that no longer served use to society. he was the one who decided who lived and died. it became an addiction.

his breaking point was when he was forced to hold a gun to his fathers forehead, feeling no guilt, regret, or uncertainty.

yeah. this was the job for him.

✦ Vice what weakness can their darling exploit in order to escape?

⟢ feeding into his want of being loved would be a good way to try and escape. though it’s basic, getting him to trust your love and affection for him would allow him to loosen up more, giving you more freedom. he’d allow you to roam more, even trusting you to pick up sharp objects now for cooking or other activities. he still will keep the door tightly locked and guarded, though there might be other ways to escape..

✦ Wits End would they ever hurt their darling?

⟢ he wouldn’t do anything permanant to you. he has truthfully thought about it a few times when in fits of rage, but hasn’t acted upon it.

✦ Xoanon how much would they revere or worship their darling? to what length would they go to win their darling over?

⟢ you’re truly the only human that has ever made him feel his own fucked up version of love, so he adores you for that. there’s no doubt in his mind that you two don’t belong together. there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for your affection, even if it’s you slapping his face or kicking at him. to him, it’s all perfect.

✦ Yearn how long do they pine after their darling before they snap?

⟢ probably a good few months. when he sees that you’re hanging around a certain man more often, touching him by even the slightest brush, and even just smiling in his direction, he snaps and decides it’s finally time for him to intervene.

✦ Zenith would they ever break their darling?

⟢ up to you, my darling reader. <3

[vtkuu]

Alex Hirsch on writing Bill's unreliable narrator perspective:

"I sort of leave it to the reader to try to pick through what is a lie what is true, and more interestingly, what is something that Bill says that's a lie literally, but is a truth metaphorically?

I think sociopaths, cult leaders— they're such narcissists that they often tell on themselves, even when they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes, they can't help it. They'll kind of admit to something they've done, because they sort of want the credit, then they'll create plausible deniability and act like it never happened.

You know, Robert Durst, the rich serial killer lunatic […] he got away with three murders, and he would have gone to his grave with those three murders. But they made a documentary and they said, "can we interview you?" And he's like, "of course you can, you need to hear my side of the story!" Because he's so convinced that he's a genius, he can't help himself. They say that murderers often return to the scene of the crime, well, that's a crazy thing to do. But there's this ego involved. So, a character like Bill is going to deny a hundred things while kind of hiding a confession inside those denials. And that seemed interesting to me to explore."

~ Full interview with the Syosset Public Library here.