My newly aquired 'dead eye' is also a great asset I think - I just need to work out how to use it...

I suspect that slightly turning my head to indicate interest or total oblivion to them might be very off putting. However, there is always the chance that they might sock me one when I can't see them...

I'll have to work on all that.

Mr. A.H. -

I think this is very true. The immature cause  far more harm around themselves than genuine psychopaths or sociopaths, if you look at the population of the planet as a whole.
Psychopaths & Sociopaths are very rare also. The immature are legion.

The immature will also often call those they dislike Psychopaths or Sociopaths little realising that what they say is meaningless unless they are qualified to make such a diagnosis.

Alchoholism is just the same. To mean anything it was to be a diagnosis. Just an unqualified opinion on a boozer you happen to dislike does not an Alchoholic make.

The immature are the worst people in the world and should be gassed.

The fun is making people guess which eye works and which one doesn't... 

As for Psychopaths - The fun with them is that until diagnosed they aren't really Psychopaths. Only when they've wrought their harm and been assesed do they have their label.  Undiagnosed they are free to roam and, as you say, must number far more than we realise.

Calling people you dislike 'Autistic' is the new one. You noticed that too yet ?

Again it's yet another diagnosis...

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Those 'skills' tend to be a strange charisma born not out of an innate understanding of humanity, but of operating outside of accepted cultural norms, as they don't understand them.

This can appear in superficial party interactions or in bars, as someone possessing great people skills, which the opposite is quite true.

I think you could argue a case (and people have) for many of the 'great' leaders in history being psychopaths,  from Biblical King David  onward.