Analysis Of Sociopath By M. E. Thomas

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Throughout this article, M.E. Thomas writes about being a self diagnosed sociopath who has never killed anyone but had serious thoughts about it. First, the article starts with an example Thomas experienced. To start off, she scaled a closed escalator which was blocked off then got affronted by the employee who had previously closed the escalator. As a result of getting scorned by the worker, Thomas followed closely behind the worker imagining the satisfaction she would receive by getting this man alone and driving her hands into his neck with an unrelenting grasp until he was stripped of life. After the hallucination of murdering this worker, Thomas realized she had lost him in the crowd of people. Thomas refers to herself as extremely confident,

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