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> I had to deal with a psychopath who was stalking and threatening to kill me and my husband. I'm not much inclined to listen to what you have to say = having dealt with one up close and personal. Thanks for the attempt to school me dude, but I know more about these fuckups than you'll ever know reading third and fourth hand acconts of whatever it is that you read.
No, you don't. I don't want to be disrespectful, nor am I trying to 'school you'. But if I may put it so bluntly, your specific experience is in *this* context an anecdote. It doesn't tells us that the category of 'psychopath' is a good one. It doesn't explain anything. It doesn't give you necessarily superior insight into the problem. It certainly doesn't make you right when you get it wrong. It just means that some probably disturbed person put you through an experience that I would never wish to go through.
If you insist on the relevance of your specific experience, I suppose it might also explain some of your investment in the 'psycho' theory, and defensiveness in response to some fairly mildly expressed disagreement. But that's all.