A deliciously thorough peek into a sociopaths mind

I really enjoyed this book, the story telling was fab and really helped me understand what it could be like feeling very differently to myself

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Fascinating and Frank

An insight to be sure. I learnt so much about sociopaths I had no idea about. Compelling. Listen. You won't be disappointed. 😊

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Exhausting

Firstly this book is written really well, descriptive and narrated extremely well, as it would be by the author.

However, the line ‘I’m a sociopath’ was said that many times I could have screamed. If I never hear that word again it will be too soon.

Yes it’s a memoire and yes it’s about sociopathy, but wow….don’t we just know it. Patric is so obsessed with her diagnosis I pity her friends and family as it seems that is something she analyses to an obsessive point.

I wanted to say I loved it, but sadly I found myself getting more and more frustrated especially with the repetition of the word. Maybe it’s better read that listened too?

Sorry :(

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Incredible !

This was just fascinating, to understand sociopathy as an ‘emotional learning difficulty’ and understand what life is really like for a sociopath. I also found it fascinating to visualise an emotional/ empathy scale. Having multiple neurodiversities and having a journey to have these diagnosed in adulthood I could relate to so much in here. I learned so much such as how you judge others by your own psychology and your own place on ‘the scale’ and to understand how we are all so different. I know Patric has helped many others and challenged ingrained beliefs. Finally sociopaths will gain the understanding they deserve. Well read and entertaining, I highly recommend this title.

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A brilliant mind.

I don’t think there’s ever been an author I’d more like to spend an evening discussing life with than Patric Gagne. This was a fascinating and enthralling listen.

I am not a Sociopath, in fact quite the opposite; I struggle with feeling things too deeply - often to a point of overwhelm. On so many levels though Patric’s words resonated; the way she thinks, building logic and ‘rules’ from a very young age - I’ve never heard anyone else speak of such things and in so many ways I identified with her story. Her quest to understand herself and the years of work she put into it are phenomenal. All the more so in a world that can be so fundamentally against people like her.

Her story is clever, engaging, and brilliantly narrated by Patric herself. A must read for anyone who identifies with the term Sociopath or loves someone who does, and essential for anyone in the field of psychology.

A wonderful insight into a different mind, and an important reminder that we are all just humans trying to find our way in this crazy world. This woman is my new hero.

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Honest, amazing and insightful

There’s not many books like this and it’s a shame. What a fantastic author! The book is funny and yet serious at the same time. Maybe the world needs more people like her to help those who struggle with sociopathy.

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The memoir that reads as a storybook, loved it

Amazing and brave storytelling with self awareness and curiosity and it's core. No need to be a sociopath, discovering more about society and the human psyche, is at its heart, and being interested is all you need to enjoy

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Brilliant and real

Such an amazing narrative and personal account I loved every minute of this book 😍 wishing the author all the luck 🍀

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Fascinating

This book is fascinating. I saw it highlighted as one of the best reads in the Saturday paper and basically spent the weekend listening to it. I just couldn’t put it down. It’s very well written. essentially an autobiography but with so much information in it as it’s almost a textbook without one realising that’s what it is! It’s also very well read. I don’t suffer from this disorder but found the book has really helped me understand people like this. I imagine if the symptoms resonate with you that you would find this book exceptionally interesting.

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Oh - is it about a sociopath?

The author is so captivated by the fact that she’s a sociopath, she reminds us of the fact virtually every other sentence once she starts writing about her teens onwards.
It’s infuriating, as she does actually make some interesting points which challenge all our popular assumptions and gives us an insight as to why people with sociopathy behave the way they do.
I think the idea that as there is a spectrum we’re all on in terms of empathy/guilt/remorse et al is a valid one. But she is so unbearably self-aggrandising and wise-cracking that it’s hard to find the wheat in all the chaff. Gagne has a very cheesy, clichéd way of describing herself which suggests her emotional maturity is still evolving. Fair enough, given her subject matter. It’s just hard to care after a while. More academic rigor (this reads like a lazy, self-indulgent teenage diary) would be welcome and much, much less of the tedious, pointless conversations with her equally unlikeable colleagues in the music industry. After all, if she wants the world to seriously reevaluate its ideas of sociopathy, psychopathy and antisocial behaviour disorders, it would be a start if she provided some citations, regardless of the fact that this is a memoir not a medical study.
As for her husband, I can’t believe he exists as she depicts him. A tech whizz (without being a tech bro), he is Labrador-loyal, devoted, and entirely one dimensional.
The book would have greatly benefited by being cut by 75%. I don’t know what her editor was thinking.

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