Assuming Names Summary

Assuming Names is an unbelievable true story about a 15-year-old, Tanya Thompson, who fooled the FBI, DEA, and Interpol in addition to many other government and private institutions. Assuming Names is a story that seems too crazy to be true, but Tanya has evidence, on her website and in her book, that her adventures actually happened. She was a bored teenager who wanted to be recognized for her brilliance, posing as a 23-year-old world travelled countess. She used this persona to persuade Tricia to hire her for a position that helps refugees adapt to living in the United States. And that is where her story begins. For the next XXX years as she travelled the world deceiving everyone she met, she found she had to make up new lies to cover the previous lies, compunding the complexity of the deceptive web she was weaving. Soiety classified her as a sociopath or a psychopath. She wanted to prove that she was brilliant, show how sociopaths think, and explain the aftermath of the effects her adventures had on her life. Tanya Thompson wanted to be recognized as a brilliant person, so she had to have a plan for …show more content…
During the time she was in the mental institution, she was questioning herself and her story about the scrape on her forearm. “I was trying to determine if it was the angle or the depth that betrayed the cut to my wrist had not been a nail, but a chain link fence….I hated it, everything in me was against it, but I had to relent.” This is what she was thinking through about her story and ultimately leading to her telling part of the truth about the scrape. Sociopaths treat everything, including relationships, like a game that has to be won. Whether they cheat, lie, or any form of motive to get whatever they want. This is a lot of how Tanya was thinking. Toying with people’s emotions. Many of the motives of sociopaths, including Tanya, was they believe they are superior beings and have to rule