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The isolation I'm referring to is not socially mediated, however early in development. It's more like a physical dislocation of the mind, a genetic gap or barrier that isolates it at a very, very deep level from the very beginning.

My primary thesis is that psychopaths live in a profound isolation that is almost incomprehensible to most people, and my post was about how this related to the emotions of a psychopath, leading to the conclusion that there is a double layer of emotions, the primary one belonging only to the...

(I could no longer edit the original post, so I'll continue this way) ...so the process of socialization becomes completely different. The psychopathic mind develops intellectually, even emotionally, yet always completely isolated within itself, so socialization in the traditional sense does...

Psychopathic Emotional Paradox: Real vs. Fake It's said that psychopaths do not feel emotions, they can only imitate them. A popular way of putting this is to say they cannot feel the music of emotions, but can only learn the words. This aspect of psychopathy may account for, or be tied closely...

And her insistence throughout all of her interviews that her stripes and chains not be shown, as if it would make any real difference; everyone knew her prisoner status, so why pretend? No real reason, but indicative of her real intentions in giving all of those interviews: just as the...

Also when asked what she would have done differently that day, she says her best option would have been to go left instead of right and run out of there. Yet on cross, when Juan offered her that very option she said it would have resulted in Travis killing her, so it's gone from the worst option...

She often contradicts herself, yet it's always the latest version that is supposed to, somehow, be perfectly believable. She doesn't seem to get that constantly changing her story makes everything she says unbelievable, including the most recent. As an example, look at what she says in the...

Nice post, but a couple of things I don't understand. You say you want help flushing her from your system, is that a literal request for help, or do you mean the help is implicit in our reading the post, and therefore in reality in just your writing of it? You say you're interested in...

It looks like her first attempt to manipulate the system has failed; that of having things on her schedule and to proceed at her pace. May not be home for Christmas this year, though a Christmas miracle may not be wholly out of her reach, should she wake up on that day and realize she is home.

Didn't she say she was going camping with eight men she didn't know? That would mean she would need the gun in case any of them got out of line. And I mean that literally...

They should have asked her if she was returning them blade first or handle first.

They'd only let her read it in Winter, so they can use her as a heat source.

Not exactly, IIRC in the early days of the investigation the Hughes expressed clearly to L.E. their belief that Jodi did it, and that they were extremely concerned about their own safety (from her). Since it was early in the investigation L.E. didn't want to let anyone know outright that she...

Small mind in a big world, trying to be somebody for all the wrong reasons.

Certainly leaves room for speculation. There was certainly none of the PTSD she would later claim; regularly checking in with L.E., working the crowd at Travis' memorial, her 'morbid curiosity' to see the pictures during the interrogation. Maybe the opposite of PTSD...

That was certainly a popular opinion among the legal intelligentsia, and proved a correct one, so who am I to argue? I still find the fact she didn't even try interesting, and I see no reason to attribute it to her legal intelligence, since she had none. It may be vain to wait for her remorse...

But at sentencing death was off the table. It was only LWOP or 25 years with the possibility of release. If she was all about manipulation, here was her chance for an Oscar performance, but changing her point of view, accepting the consensus, was still meaningless to her, even though it could...

I think everyone knew she would give self-defense her best shot, as obvious a lie as it was, but after the guilty verdict, and the specially cruel verdict, after it was clear no one, particularly the jury, believed her, to then not even miss a beat and to allocute as a domestic violence victim...

I think it was an open question in the beginning, at least as to the extent of her denial. I think most people at least expected her to give something. As it was, she stood behind the discredited defense claim to the very end, up to and including at sentencing. I think most people found that...

And the promise of insight that was implied, leading the jury through the detailed story of her life leading up to the murder, and then the fog rolls in and absolves her of all accountability, a great circle ending at the starting point with all the questions remaining unanswered, but her...