This is very true. I have an armchair level interest in psychiatry and psychology. I spoke to someone who deals with real criminals all day. They said that in

This is very true. I have an armchair level interest in psychiatry and psychology. I spoke to someone who deals with real criminals all day. They said that in their 30 year career counselling criminals and assessing them, they only met one true sociopath. The kid came from a family with $100M+ and was about 20. They said that this person could convince you of anything to the extent that everyone who had exposure to them had to do so in small chunks so as to not empathize. This person could cut to the heart of someone's identity very quickly and learn how to manipulate and engineer your response. Apparently it is one of those things where you are like "Maybe I am on this spectrum..." but if you were, you would either know for sure, or be pathologically immune to the critism. And if you met someone who truly was on it, they would be capable of things beyond most normal people's imaginations.