- I wish I had known how to identify the signs and symptoms of Anti-social Personality Disorder (APD).
- I wish I had known that some people will never change.
- I wish I had known that some people don't want to change.
- I wish I had known about a neurodevelopmental marker called "Cave of Septum Pellucidum (CSP)" that occurs in, perhaps, ten to fifteen percent of the adult population.
- I wish I had known that very recent research (August 2010) using MRI brain imaging would eventually reveal that Cave of Septum Pelucidum (CSP) is likely to be the root cause of Anti-social Personality Disorder (APD), also commonly referred to as either sociopathy or psychopathy.
- I wish I had known that some people actually lack a conscience. This ubiquitous feature of APD is so alien and so incomprehensible to most of us that it is nearly impossible for us to either recognize or accept that someone for whom we care deeply could truly be so very different from those of us who actually have consciences and can feel remorse.
- I wish I had known that some people simply can not learn from their mistakes.
- I wish I had known that up to thirty-five percent of the people in prison suffer from APD. We tend to lock them up precisely because they can not learn from their mistakes and, therefore, can not change their anti-social behavior. They can not be reformed.
- I wish I had known that some people actually enjoy causing pain to the people they claim to love.
- I wish I had known how dangerous a female sociopath could be.
- I wish I had known that the woman I had just starting dating (with whom I would have a 24-year-long relationship and two children) was a high-functioning sociopath.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty, I suppose, but I very much wish that I had known these things when I was twenty-five.
