I am a sociopath

ME Thomas is a law professor, who has many friends and an enviable lifestyle.

But she has a secret, revealed in the title of her pseudonymous memoir, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight.

This is Thomas’s life story, from childhood to the moment a colleague told her she might be a sociopath, and her attempt to understand what this means for her. “I had no negative connotations when she first mentioned the word,” says Thomas. “But, now, thanks to TV shows like Dexter, sociopath is a label for someone evil.”