JA has a fairly high innate IQ. She speaks in complex sentences using unusual staid phrases. The testimony has been carefully prepared and the narrative practiced many times. She has an unexpectedly large vocabulary. She speaks fluently, almost too fluently. In certain areas of inquiry, the speech is torrential as if she were on a cocaine high or manic. Her ideas are coherent and targeted for effect.
As has been noted previously, however, she is devoid of emotion. When asked how she feels or how she felt ( as if that were relevant) she pauses and carefully thinks through a vocabulary. A psychopath does not feel authentic emotion and thus must describe emotions in a way that the psychopath thinks a feeling person might feel. She comes up with words like betrayed disappointed confused concerned vexed - words that would be used in a crime novel. Her affect is flat and her demeanor and delivery are robotic. The lies and truths mesh imperceptibly. She merges fragments of truth with fantasy with total ease.
. My DH said as a normal man hearing her testify about the OS was NOT sexually exciting to him.
