Is Alison Actually a Sociopath?

I don't think Allison consciously made it for Cole. It's just what she thinks of as 'home." Remember it also belonged to her grandfather, who it seems kind of raised her because her mother was a flake.

Yes! I knew it looked SO familiar! And also the weird gray siding, slightly run down looking exterior, nothing like a sweet little girl's doll house!

Thank you! That gives me a lot to think about. I knew there had to be more to that huge and strange looking dollhouse than just a gift for a 5-year-old.




"There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in" --Leonard Cohen

She had spoon out ready to put it into the frosting, into her cake whatever when the knock happen at the door. The detectives commented on the PB in her hand and asked what she was doing with it? Its very possible she got spooked. Didn't put down that jar until the detectives noticed her holding the jar.

I didn't either, ever, but did you read that article?

Now I'm not so sure. She's seriously messed up, no question about that. Has done some really messed up things, too. And the writers have hinted that she may not be quite the "innocent" that she pretends.

I don't know. I'm torn now.




"There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in" --Leonard Cohen

I assumed that was an innocent white lie to tell her very young daughter. What should she had said?

It isn't doing more research, it is redefining a term, often to the point where the original term becomes meaningless. No one dies of natural causes anymore. It is a now always a specific disease, so when one comments that more people die of cancer these days, it is misleading for two reasons, one that the cancer is now diagnosed, and that cancer is primarily a disease of cellular metabolism, whose incidence increases with age, so as people live longer, naturally more of them die of cancer.

You can't even daydream these days w/o an ADHD or autistic label being slapped on the side of your head.

And when is the last time you heard "confirmed bachelor?" Talk about a code word.

I remember being around a woman who threw around the term sociopath so much that people just stopped listening to her. It is a very black-and-white term, and 99% of the time sociopathic tendencies would be way more accurate. Reminds me of the SJW's who now call everyone who isn't 100% in-line with their a homophobic misogynistic racist. They seem to have won a lot of converts with that approach.

Alison frequently commits or is associated with terrible acts. She is a toxic individual to be around, regardless of the source of the damage in her which causes her to act that way consciously or unconsciously. Regardless of her motivation, the effect of the act is usually the same. The non-violent communication approach would have Cole saying "I need to have you in my life in a very limited way" as opposed to him railing against her with you you you statements, which just raise the defensive barriers to listening such that nothing is heard. But this show, like all dramas, is based on sending unclear mixed messages subject to misinterpretation. Sadly, people in real life sometimes learn their communication skills from TV characters.

My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2

That's scary to see in a child, and the parents doing nothing. (So many parents seem like that, I don't get it.) But the kid sounds like a regular Damien.

This charming "friend" I was talking about was a piece of work. I'd known her for quite a few years but only casually. It wasn't until she moved in with me that I began to see how seriously off she was and actually dangerous.

Always seeing herself as a victim, convinced people were stealing from her, unable to handle the smallest amount of stress without falling apart. Being convinced people were out to get her, never letting her friends meet each other, talking trash behind all their backs, that was all just her normal M.O.

The tipping point for me, though, was when her estranged family came from Canada for a family reunion. They invited her to stay with them at this gorgeous seaside hotel as a gesture of familial goodwill. She went, got into a fight with her twin sister over something inconsequential and literally tried to strangle her! Which she admitted to me with no emotion whatsoever. She told me she would have killed her if her brother hadn't pulled her off!?! Later, she couldn't understand why her sister was back to not talking to her again. I asked if she apologized for trying to strangle her and she was, "Why should I apologize?!?!". This was the same sister who had some kind of illness, and she claimed it was fake...had no empathy for her own twin whatsoever. It's one reason her sister had stopped talking to her years before.

Later she told me how she planned on sneaking some kind of banned substance into her elderly parents' luggage to smuggle across the Canadian border. I couldn't believe she'd be willing to put her parents at risk like that. I told her it was unacceptable and unforgivable. Needless to say, shortly after that, we were no longer roommates. She moved to Canada and I've never heard from her since, thank goodness. Oh, and here's another crazy thing I forgot. She told me once that her ex-husband would go out at night and peek into women's windows in their condo complex. She didn't care! I asked her how it didn't bother her and she just shrugged. She was only worried that he might get caught, not that what he was doing was sick.

And yet she collected friends all over the place, because, like I said, she could be quite charming. And also slippery. It was very hard to call her out on her stuff. And despite her frequent falling outs with every single one of her friends, she'd always came back a year or so later like nothing had happened. She's never gotten back in touch with me, though. I think she realized I was really onto her. And I'm thankful because I'd probably stupidly still be nice to her  pretty much like everybody else is, even though being friends with her is definitely not worth the trouble she brings.

I mean, I guess I should be grateful that she's the only person like that I've ever really had any close dealings with. I remember one of my ex's co-workers who was also off. Charming, but kind of scary. I remember him talking about putting a full bottle of alcohol in his fish tank once and thought it was a great prank, even though it killed all of the fish. Even though he seemed like a "fun" guy, good looking, etc. there was just something really chilling about him. I think he was probably a sociopath, I know my husband definitely thought so back then. I feel sorry for his little boy, now. I was friends with his wife who was a real pacifist and wanted to instill that in her kids, and yet she was always dismayed that her son could turn absolutely anything into a weapon. I always thought that maybe it just showed that boys are fundamentally different from girls, but now I wonder if it was an inherited trait from his father. Because apparently, sociopathy can be inherited?

As for Alison, I think I might have just assumed she's being narcissistic until she did that thing with the peanut butter. There's no excuse for even thinking about doing something like that. Also the stuff with Joanie. The lack of bonding, leaving her with Noah, etc. And now it makes me look back at a lot of other things she's done and it makes me wonder.

I don't know if the writers are going there, but I hope they've got a psychologist advisor on their team, because this is some messed up stuff going on with Alison and I hope it's eventually resolved in some way that we, the audience, understands.




"There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in" --Leonard Cohen