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Sociopath by Patric Gagne

15 reviews

evecaraa's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Physical abuse and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

peggydean's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Addiction, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

o_w_e_n's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Stalking, Mental illness, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Pregnancy and Suicide

maxinekelly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Stalking, and Animal death

zombiezami's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

 Over the past few years, I've been making an effort to seek out perspectives from people with heavily stigmatized diagnoses: anti-social personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, etc. I'm very committed to disability justice action, and I think this is an important part of that that often gets overlooked. If we accept that mental illness is a disability, than we have to accept that it's, well, unacceptable to malign specific illnesses and disorders as if people with them are inherently evil. 

As an autistic person, I felt very seen in this book. Like the author, I too have many experiences of people getting angry at me for not having the facial expression/emotional reaction that they expect in a given situation.  I felt the frustration of the author as she tried her best to be honest and fit in, yet people still made assumptions about her and tried to use her. Overall, I thought the book was well written and often hilarious. I highly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Stalking, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Minor: Pregnancy, Murder, Animal death, Suicide, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization

Eugenics, incarceration

gretchenplz's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

Listen. This was an enthralling memoir that I absolutely devoured. 

However, I can't help but feel a little... off about the whole thing. At some point around 50%, I started getting the feeling that was a bit... weird. I couldn't help but feel like I was being manipulated. That I wasn't getting the full truth. Then a delve into the internet to try to find out more about Patric came up pretty empty. I'm ok with writing under a pseudonym and disguising details, but when the topic is sociopathy... It just left me uneasy. 

This isn't to say that the memoir wasn't well-written or interesting. I really did enjoy it. I just also have to take it with a grain of salt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, and Stalking

Minor: Child abuse

dblue236's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

2.0

I got through about a third of this without much issue. It reads like fiction, and I'm inclined to think that most of it is, but it was more or less harmless and generally entertaining. But the more I read, the more I disliked the author, and the more off-putting the book became. By a little more than halfway through, I had to give up. I don't find her believable, I don't like her, and I just couldn't justify investing any more of my time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child abuse, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I loved this memoir! What a fascinating look into the mind of a sociopath. Patric Gagne offers so much insight into how her mind works and debunks a lot of misconceptions that people may have about sociopathy while detailing her life in stories that are often heartbreaking, laugh out loud funny, and just plain interesting food for the brain. I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death of parent, Self harm, and Death

Minor: Murder and Blood

torturedreadersdept's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Animal death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Bullying, Dysphoria, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Sexual assault

sarah2911's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

Am I sure everything here really happened as described? No. I don’t believe for a second, for example, that she didn’t know patient care would be part of the clinical psych PhD. But I’m not sure I care— the moments she creates are delightfully cinematic and hilarious. Loved the description of how she used CBT for sociopathy; sad she had to go do a whole degree to have better ideas than her dynamic therapist. 

I did skip over chapters with animal death (two instances that I can recall. They are skippable and the next chapter does not discuss it further)

I think this is a book that many neurodiverse people will relate to. Feeling like an outsider, masking, having different interests from your peers, not responding to emotional cues “correctly”— it’s all overlapping. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death