Thank you to NetGAlley and the publisher for providing me an e-arc for review.
I was so excited to get to this book. As someone who spent a good chunk of their life thinking they might be and the other half wishing to "not have feelings", this was a welcome read. I think I always understood that we (as society), don't really know what Sociopathy actually is or what it means for a persons behaviour. This book clarified and explained so many things that I previously only had a limited knowledge of. Not only this, but it was given from both the lived experience of, and the professional knowledge of. Never will I ever use the word sociopath to negatively label someone again. I understand that, like other personality disorders/types, and with the right support in place sociopathy is a perfectly manageable condition. However, because I have a personality disorder that is often negatively stereotyped (including at one point of this book... yes Patric Gagne threw me under the bus temporarily.... AITA?), I did come from a place of wanting to understand better... I worry that the built up fear will take more than this book to dispel. This is a pretty great start though... and I can see this book being one that helps a lot of people both with and without sociopathy to understand themselves and/or people around them better. I appreciated the raw honesty even with the things that could get the author in trouble and the things that people forget to try and understand the motivations of and maybe just see the resulting action. The writing was of a high standard too and it was a pleasure to read. I did also grab the audio version of this (which is read by the woman herself), and that was also well produced and read. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to understand better. I not only recommend this, but hope that this will be read by many.