re: Do You Know Or Ever Met A True Psychopath?

One of my best friends my first couple of years in college. So charming. The ultimate charmer of men and women. I don't mean sexually, I mean like he really could make a person feel understood and cool and valued like no one else you'd ever met.

Then the lies slowly started to pop up. And eventually banging girls you liked. Finally, several of his mutual friends got together and compared notes, along with some people from his past. Turned out he was nothing BUT lies. I'm still not sure, over a decade later, who he really was or what elements of his story were fake and what were merely exaggerated, but he lied about everything - even common everyday stuff. Once he'd run through an entire group of friends at A&M, he left. Someone said he claimed he was going to Africa. No kidding.

Never heard from him again. There's a 0% chance he went to Africa. He'd just worn out his welcome where he was, been found out, and was moving on to con a new group of people. Kind of scary, really.