A friend of mine kept dropping hints he was a psychopath... He even said he would love to suspend my ex-gf in a shower and fuck her in front of her current boyfriend and slice her open and drain her. Which is fucked up and wrong.
Everyone thinks oh it is just him being him, haha funny just a bit of banter, but as he is laughing along he glances at me, knowing what I am like, what I can see and just smiles, his eyes say this is the real me. I just smile knowingly. Matching that flicker of predatory eyes.
Haha... He thought just because I am empathic I can't be just as ruthless. I noticed more worrying dark triad behaviours he would charm his way through girlfriends dump them and then go after her friends and drive them away from her friends. He even started talking to me explicitly about his sexual exploits in front of his ex... I knew he was doing it on purpose, and I could feel her getting upset.
Plus I kinda was into her so I figured let's chip at his facade. So first I called him out on being horrible in front of her.
Then I start to get people to reframe how they thought about him, by suggesting what he was like. Strategically, until people started thinking it was their own idea, I even got him to say it more, "I am a psychopath" haha... I even started to befriend his best friend, his confidant until she started to say it more.
I don't think it made any difference, but he dropped the facade a little. I think it kinda depressed him because he lost some of his charm.
That said we got on because we were similar and he did similar things to me almost like a game. Calling me out on my sexual and general sadism. I mean his idea about my ex was pretty hot.
If I was you, which I am not, and you shouldn't be me, but I would relish the opportunity to destroy a psychopath... Because I am the most psychopathic empath there is.
It's strange. I am very sensitive to my dogs and pets, to children and the vulnerable, to people are not outright purposely abusers. I hate abusers, as teen I used to almost torture my peers who hurt people, because no one protected me as a child. Now I have lost the person I love, because I drove them away, and now I feel good because I don't have to behave myself anymore, however as I am an adult now... I have to wear a mask too... I have no choice but to see what I am because she is gone.... I guess this makes me abusive... Or at least I was to her.
Makes me wonder is there much of a difference between an empath and a sociopath? Or are they just two sides of the same coin. Maybe it is for me, not other empaths who knows :)