![]() ![]() Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things. You should be more paranoid than you are. ![]() It's not being paranoid to worry about us. No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception. Schizophrenics are only 1 percent, but they get all the press. Anorexics are 3 percent, and everybody talks about them. One out of twenty-four people is 4 percent of the population, and that's a lot of sociopaths. I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried. I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing. I can read you almost immediately, get your number right away, and push your buttons to make you do whatever I want. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion, or regard for you. ![]()
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