Personality disorders are a particularly complex part of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, published by the American Psychiatric Association. While it\u2019s become fairly common to hear clinical terms related to personality disorders pitched around TikTok and Instagram,\u00a0not everyone wielding the terms is doing so in the correct context.<\/p>\n
A clinically diagnosed narcissist shared a riddle that can allegedly determine if you\u2019re a psychopath.<\/p>\n
In the TikTok post<\/a>, Skidmore proclaimed, \u201cIf you can answer this riddle correctly, then it is a major sign that you’re a psychopath.\u201d He offered a caveat about the nature of the riddle, noting that \u201cthere\u2019s no research to validate it.\u201d\u00a0Still, he said, \u201cIf you do get it right, don\u2019t get all in a panic. However, that being said, the only people in my life who are accurately able to answer was me, a diagnosed narcissist, and my sister, who is diagnosed with ASPD, aka sociopathy. So, take that as you will.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo, a woman goes to her mother\u2019s funeral, and she meets a guy there that she\u2019s never met before, and they really hit it off,\u201d he introduced the riddle. \u201cLike, this woman is thinking, \u2018Oh my gosh, this might be my soulmate.\u2019 But she doesn\u2019t realize until the funeral is over that she forgot his name, forgot his number. She has no idea who this guy is, and whoever she asks, they don\u2019t know either.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe next week, she murders her sister,\u201d he proclaimed. \u201cSo the riddle is, why did she do it? Why did she murder her sister?\u201d Skidmore went on to clarify that the answer seemed obvious to him, and he was able to answer\u00a0quickly. He mentioned that his sister, who he claimed has a diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder, \u201canswered it really slowly because she thought it was a trick question because she found it so obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n RELATED: 6 Ways You Can Tell A Person Is A Psychopath By The Way They Talk, According To Psychology<\/a><\/p>\n Knowing the answer to the riddle isn\u2019t a diagnosis in any form.<\/p>\n He offered up the answer to the riddle, explaining,\u00a0\u201cBecause if she murders her sister, given that the sister and mother are related, there\u2019s a good probability that that man will also show up to this funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n Skidmore insisted that this riddle is more of a thought experiment than any legitimate clinical tool. He also clarified that, according to his perspective, the woman in the riddle doesn\u2019t seem particularly psychopathic, stating, \u201cIt sounds more Machiavellian traits rather than psychopathic ones. But still, I think it\u2019s a fun little riddle.\u201d<\/p>\n A majority of the comments on the post proclaimed the riddle\u2019s answer obvious, as most people came to the same conclusion, that\u00a0the woman killed her sister in hopes that the mysterious man would come to her funeral. \u201cOh, we\u2019re thinking in realistic terms? I was like, \u2018the man is death,'” one person asked. Another user explained, \u201cI immediately said to see the guy again, but I feel like this just indicates good logic skills. Because knowing the answer doesn\u2019t mean thinking it\u2019s moral.\u201d<\/p>\n RELATED: You Can Immediately Tell If Someone Is A Psychopath Just By Doing This Around Them, According To Research<\/a><\/p>\n Being diagnosed as a psychopath doesn’t automatically make someone a bad person.<\/p>\n The user’s comment on the morality and politics of the riddle raised a valuable point, one that touches on the issues of empathy and psychopathy. An article published in March 2022 by the American Psychological Association<\/a> noted that various aspects of psychopathy include \u201clow empathy and remorse, grandiosity, impulsivity, and sometimes aggressive or violent behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n In the article, the APA stated that \u201cabout 1.2% of U.S. adult men and 0.3% to 0.7% of U.S. adult women are considered to have clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits.\u201d They\u00a0explained that \u201cpsychopathy is not a diagnostic category\u201d within the current DSM, having been \u201creplaced in the third edition by antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), which focuses mainly on the behavioral aspects of psychopathy, such as aggression, impulsivity, and violations of others\u2019 rights.\u201d<\/p>\n There are significant social and cultural stigmas held against psychopathy as a concept and diagnosis. Some clinicians believe that psychopathy exists along a spectrum. While not everyone in the mental health community agrees with that assessment, most do agree that \u201cthe area tends to be both underfunded and undertreated,\u201d and ultimately, not fully understood.<\/p>\n![\"man](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/psychopathic-behaviors-riddle-determine-psychopath-according-diagnosed-narcissist.png\" "\\"The")
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