I've been worrying about my son being a psychopath but I was able to get him to see a psychologist
This is an updating post. When I posted about worrying about my 14 year old possibly becoming a psychopath a lot of people recommended a therapist and we had been looking into it for a bit. But his school has an actual psychology that they send their students to. It was gonna take a few weeks but they some cancellations so my son got to move up to today. My husband had been more on top of that than me and he told me last minute I had to take him today. The reason I worry about my son is because he has no friends and a very strange outlook on life. He's always bee strange. He shows little emotion. Like I said in my other post we had into a car accident and the car rolled over and while we are freaking out my son is unbothered by it. He doesn't care. He even got himself out of the car and when there was a shooting at his cousins homecoming while everyone was screaming and running out, he's walking out unbothered and listening to music. He told me he doesn't have a will to live or die and death happens whether you're 2 or 102. I also feel like he lacks empathy. He said he has empathy but he doesn't feel bad for a lot of people because he believes a majority of our issues are caused by human stupidity. One example he says is poverty and that humanity created poverty because money is just a made up concept and someone decided a piece of paper was worst more than another piece of paper. He's just a strange boy.
How it worked is the psychologist spent about 30 minutes talking to both of us and the about an hour and a half talking to my son alone. When she asked what brought him here he said "Because my mom thinks since I don't fit what society deems as normal that I'm gonna be a murderer who rapes women in my basement". Of course I said I didn't say anything like that. We talked together and she asked him a few questions and empathy came up and he told her what he told me that a majority of the world's problems are because of human stupidity. And said his thoughts on poverty. She asked about other things he might feel empathy for other things and rape came up in this conversation. My son said he feels empathy for rape victims but that rape is also part of human stupidity. That shocked me and she told him to elaborate. I can not quote everything he said but he pretty much said that a majority of the time rapist were showing signs in adolescent years but parents are too ignorant to notice or do anything. He also said not all signs of being sexually aggressive and watching rape porn as a teen but having a severe ego and thinking the world revolves around you and he thinks some parents feed into their kids own ego and make them think they're better than anyone. One part I can quote is he said "They spent they're whole life thinking they're some God and everyone owes them so you're surprised when they try to own someone else's body". He also said he hasn't been sexually assaulted so we don't have to worry about but that he doesn't feel sympathy for parents who raise egotistical pieces of shit with a borderline God complex who is suprised that their child is a rapist. He believes that a lot can be prevented in adolescent years but many parents choose to be oblivious and or ignorant. I feel like he honestly threw the psychologist off. Again he's 14. I had to wait in the waiting room and the psychologist spoke to me and she told me that she can't diagnose minors with antisocial personality disorder anyway but she doesn't feel like he's a psychopath. She said my son is a deep thinker. Very smart and has his own thoughts on humanity. One thing she did say was she does feel there is some depression because she's met kids like my son who's mind is way beyond their years and a lot of the time they're craving an intelligent conversation and can tell me son craves that too. And because a lot of kids his age don't think like that it can become lonely. She recommended outpatient therapy but also warned me to keep an eye on his online activity because sometimes kids who's mind is bit beyond their years, when they crave those intelligent conversations they go try to find someone to have one with and chances are he will meet an adult with his same thought process before he meets another 14 year old and many adults don't have childrens best interest in kind and said that my son might think he wouldn't fall for a predator, when you're craving something and someone gives it to you, especially when you're lonely, it's easier to be manipulated.
At home I did tell him I love him and I only did this because I wanna make sure he's okay. And that I learned I have a very smart kid and on a very rare occasion he smiled.
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