What is a sociopath?

It’s an old psychiatric term that has been superceded by the less negative connotative label of Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD).

Although I would like to remain a bit crude for the sake of this post and prefer the title I have given as it summarises my dreadful experience with this particular relationship.

And it goes a little something like this…

Last year I met a so-called friend of a genuine friend who happened to be about 5 years younger than myself. When we first met we seemed to have a similar temperament i.e. both introverted rationals which narrows things down to one of four types.

As time went on I came to the conclusion that he was indeed a Logical-Sensory Introvert (LSI), otherwise known as a serious Inspector.

Him and I had formed a ‘kindred relation’ which like you’d expect does kind of feel like the other person is a member of your family albeit not. We both shared the dominant ego function of Introverted Logic (Ti) so I assumed we might have something of interest to chat about.

However I soon realised that due to other structural differences in the psyche I found his topics of discussion and ideas quite boring and repulsive.

I found myself getting into an intellectual contest with my intuitive-based logic versus his sensing-based. I would always be concerned with how things work, he would just want to know just enough in order to use something.

A typical diversion of interests between the researcher and pragmatists club.

He later admitted that I gave him a complex/neurosis surrounding conceptual knowledge. This later led on to intellectual b*tch fighting so to speak where he would try to compete with me on my level and even became manipulative playing on my entrepreneurial dreams.

Not to say I have a higher level or whatever as its all relative. Everyone should stay concerned with the world on their own personal level e.g. to stop worrying about other people and concentrate on developing their own skill set.

Eventually, in comparison to all previous ‘kindren relations’ I have experienced, it became very boring, stagnant and unproductive i.e. nothing to gain from it apart from basic friendship in the form of meeting up and wasting time together which I could not tolerate any longer.

Anyway, to cut a very long story short, I found it particularly difficult to get out of this relationship until one odd night we had an unforgivable incident.

He unexpectedly and violently assaulted me with an extendible police baton that he pulled out of his jacket. This resulted in grevious bodily harm of which I’m still awaiting compensation today.

In my mind he remains a potential sociopath for he had the nerve to insist we continue as friends weeks after I had recovered from the serious head injury inflicted on myself by him and privately admitted later how he planned the whole thing.

Oh yes, to top it all off he argued that I should have stopped being so closed-minded in my (ruthless) decision to close off all relations with him. With a lack of guilt or any attempt to even apologise he displayed most of the symptoms of APD.

Of course my weak and suggestive Extroverted Ethics function/attitude would probably argue the case for continued harmony although my stronger sense of logic allowed me to make the cold and correct decision to terminate the alliance.

This story represents a dreadful end to a ‘kindred relation’ although to be fair there were other factors at play such as his previous known mental health history and rocky childhood.

This was during a time when I was still quite naive to who I gave a chance to so to speak in regards to open-friendship. So in conclusion I have become extremely vigilant towards apparently unhealthy types who hide their inherent sociopathic tendencies.