Our Stories
STORYTELLING IS: A means of erasing the stigma. Connecting the community. And telling others they’re not alone.

Story from Anonymous
When I was around 3-4 years old I noticed that I was different from others. My family had a farm and we raised all kinds of different animals; cows, pigs…

Story from David
Trying to describe the challenges of living with psychopathy to neurotypicals is hard to impossible. I often relate things like my inability…

A Psychopath’s Story
Remorse is alien to me. I have a penchant for deceit. I am generally free of entangling and irrational emotions. I am strategic and canny, intelligent…

A Sociopath’s Story*
As a wife and a mother, I have learned how to tell the truth. Which is why I always know when my husband is lying. My husband was trying to tell me…

A Parent’s Story
How do you sum up a lifetime of abuse in 700 words? I don’t think you really can. The abuse didn’t just come from the child I carried for nine months when…

A Researcher’s Story
If you ever have felt compassion for anyone in your life, feel compassion for the parents of children with psychopathy. I have spent many hours…

A Psychiatrist’s Story
From a young age, she lied. She walked down the street and told a good friend of mine I was abusing her. My friend called me, troubled by my daughter’s…

Anonymous Story
By the time my son was 3 years old he seemed angry very often. And it wasn’t temper tantrum anger. It was cold, simmering anger. When I look at photos…

Story from Jack
Although my differences in this regard did not really appear until I was a teenager that is not to say I wasn’t always different. I was born in 2003…

Story from Phil
My name is Phil, 57 years old. My life is a story of broken hearts and empty purses. A trail of wreckage in my wake that I don’t see hear or feel.

Anonymous Story from Germany
It started in my early childhood. My behavior was noticeable: I had tantrums and beat up other children. Often for no reason…

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