Strange people, how to understand them.

Brian Lewin
3 min readJan 25, 2024

Each of us may seem strange to others. But there are strange people for everyone. It is difficult to understand such a person and adapt to his inappropriate behavior.

One familiar, smart woman, and there is something to talk about, and you can consult, our interests largely coincide. We talked, we were friends.

But sometimes something disgustingly disgusting, poisonous, malicious, offensive suddenly appeared in her behavior. I tolerated this state and tried to adapt, ignore, forgive. And so they lived.

By the nature of my work, I got acquainted with the diagnosis of psychopathy.

“This is when a person is completely not interested in the feelings and problems of other people. To satisfy their needs, shows aggression and violence. At the same time, the psychopath will not feel guilty and will not engage in the analysis of his own mistakes and gain experience. He firmly believes that he always does the right thing.”

My friend could offend, humiliate, offend and at the same time did not feel the pain of another. I didn’t even notice what I did wrong. And she asked in surprise: “What did I say?”

Finally, I was able to explain to myself the inappropriate behavior of a friend. It was exactly as described above. The grievances passed, and I looked at her…

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Brian Lewin

Writer, Reader and Runner. Discovering what it means to be human one day at a time.