rSlash - r/Askreddit What Made You Think: "He's a Psychopath"?

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

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Welcome to R slash Ask Reddit where users answer the question, what's something someone did that convinced you they were a complete psychopath? Our next reply is from Living Bath. At a daycare I used to work in, there was this stepmom. Whenever she'd pick up her three-year-old stepdaughter, she was the nastiest lady in the world. We had to watch what we said to her because any negative meant that little girl got punished. For example, we said the daughter pushed another kid and the stepmom gave this little girl a spanking. She used to do other weird things too. Like even though this girl was fully potty trained, she insisted we put her in a diaper before she picked her up. If we didn't, it was the first thing she did. Not like a pull-up diaper either, an actual baby diaper. We were convinced it was just to

humiliate her. She had this awful smile when she would do it too. We told this to the little girl's dad and he just never believed it. Then they came to pick her up together. Instead of mean lady, it was like Mary Poppin showed up. A complete 180 attitude change. The next day, right back to it. Beneath that, a similar story from Send Me Hedgehogs. Oh, my dad's second wife used to do that to me. I was in my teens when they were married. She used to scream at me for the most minor things, full on red in the face, spit flying everywhere, screeching. So she'd be screeching at me like some kind of deranged banshee, then my sister, who was about five at the time, would interrupt to ask her something. She turned to my sister and replied in the sweetest voice

ever, it's okay, sweetheart, I'll be there in a second, then turn back to me and start screeching again. It was confusing and terrifying at the same time, but that was one of the things that told me she was unhinged. Our next reply is from Zorita DeNive. I knew a guy who praised his supervisor, called him a mentor. Not even a year later. the guy completely assumed his supervisor's life. He slept with his wife and incited their divorce. He championed for full custody of his supervisor's kids and had them call him dad. He took over his supervisor's position at work after the guy was so stressed with the custody battle, he requested a different post. The wife got the house in the divorce, so he got all that too, if I recall correctly. It's been four years, and they're still in and out of court. Our next reply is from competitive one. I was with my BFF, and she wanted to go back-roading with a couple of guys she knew. Sure, fine, whatever.

We get in the Bronco and hit the dirt back roads while listening to music. All of a sudden, the truck comes to a stop. They yell, Possum, and run out of the truck. I got out because I thought they saw an injured Possum and wanted to help. Nope. They wanted to stomp it to death. And they did, even with me screaming and crying. My friend tried to blow it all.

office, no big deal. I told them to take me back because I wanted to go home, but they wouldn't. I had to sit in that truck with those jerks until they were ready to call it a night. I did everything possible to ruin their night just so it would end and I could go home. I've never seen someone take so much pleasure in violently killing a helpless animal that did nothing wrong. Yeah, one of the most reliable ways to determine if someone is a good person is to see how they treat animals. Our next replies from careful lavishness. My next door neighbors had an extremely bizarre way of punishing their daughter.

They would literally lock her out of the house for hours naked. I never said anything because I was so young, but my parents never said anything either, even though we could hear her screaming. Then we have this story from ad apprehensive. I'm kind of shaking as I type this, as I've never really told this story other than to my thoughts. therapist. But my abusive dad used to punish me like this a few times when I was a kid. He would

drag me mid-shower to the door and throw me out. I would cry for about an hour, completely soaked, wet, until I realized nobody was going to help me in the apartment building. I would then sleep on the stairs naked for the night until he would drag me back in and beat me up before leaving for work. I ended up with a fever and a nasty cold a few times because of it. Needless to say, that man was a psychopath. Our next reply is from Archimedes, Effia. My estranged mother bought cats solely because she planned to kill them. She said she didn't want my younger brother growing up being a P-word,

because he dared to cry over his goldfish when he was like six. Also, the weirdo, years later, threw the cat out into the street because she was tired of it trying to sneak out her legs onto the porch. She left it starving for several weeks outside to get her. hurt by other cats. Eventually, she let him back in, but then she just threw it out again, claiming it pissed on something. But the whole time, she knew she just locked the cat in the bathroom without anywhere to use the bathroom. So she was just looking for an excuse because she didn't even give the cat a litter box. Every time I think about that cat, I remember how it really

drives me to never consider her any sort of family again. Our next replies from not serial murdering. My cheating ex-girlfriend, who constantly accused me of cheating, punched me in the face while I was driving down the 405 freeway, then grabbed the steering wheel and tried to run us off the road. It started with another argument about accusing me of cheating because I worked 12-hour night shifts, 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. while going to college, and I didn't have a lot of time to hang out with her. Then, she called her mom crying and told her, I was the one who tried to run us off the road. Her parents paid her half of the rent and her college tuition, but I had to work for mine. So while I worked my butt off paying for bills in college, she would cheat on me and then scream

at me and hit me over cheating on her as soon as I got home. The only reason she thought that I was a cheater is because I would get compliments from other girls in public while we were out together, and I would occasionally stay at a male friend's house after she screamed at me and constantly hit me. I never once cheated. My conscience would never allow me. to. Yeah, that's one warning sign I've learned from reading a lot of Reddit stories is frequent accusations of cheating often means that the accuser is themselves a cheater. Our next replies from Effin. I worked with this guy, Steve. Steve was always screwing around at work, seemed to not care about anything and would never take accountability. He slept with a coworker

who was, in my opinion, kind of vulnerable, then ghosted her despite working 10 meters away from her. Then, he said she was crazy and he'd never touched her. The girl he slept with was the kindest, if not a bit naive, but one of the nicest girls you'll ever meet. We all knew that he was full of BS. He'd continuously talk about stuff, like how he had changed his name to avoid child support, or when child support caught up with him, he went and bought a Mac so he'd have no money to pay under some presumption that it was a way to get out of paying.

Then, he sold the Mac for cash to survive the month. Eventually, work would just pay his salary directly to child support. Anyway, we both applied for the same internal role and we were both interviewed. I got a call from the boss saying that I got the job. A few minutes later, Steve called and congratulated me. I'm like, cheers, man, appreciate it. Then I get a message from the boss saying, don't tell Steve you got the job because we'll tell him tomorrow face to face.

I'm like, he just congratulated me. My boss says, it's impossible that he knows. That effort played me for info, and that's when it clicked. I realized he's an actual psycho. Our next reply is from Antelope. I worked with a girl who scammed a guy for $10,000 in a green card marriage deal. She backed out as soon as he gave her the money. She had a teacup Pomeranian that her drug dealer baby daddy stole from someone's yard. Her grandfather leased a Kia for her, but after driving it for a few months, she felt the car was beneath her and just drove it back to the dealership and left it there. I noticed several times where she would be talking to someone and her facial expressions and body language would be off.

Like, the person would be telling a sad personal story and she would be smiling about it. Our next replies from Not Fit Anywhere. When I was in third grade, I had a teacher who was very strict, but overall a normal teacher. Except when it came to one boy. The boy had some kind of learning disability. It was harder for him to study. to speak, and we noticed that he was different from the rest of us. She would get him to write and do math, but he would stumble easily and make mistakes. She would scream and yell at him because she thought he could study, but wouldn't. His attention was off. She would throw him around the room. We would all sit at our desks and cry and look down while she was almost ripping his clothes.

She was yelling, I'm going to rip off your clothes, and all the students will walk past you spitting on you because you have no shame. If you had shame, you would study. The boy stopped going to school in a month or two. When I grew up, I wondered why I never told my mom what was happening. I think at that age, we all thought if the teacher was doing it, then she's right. Then a similar story from Goody Goobert. In sixth grade, my math teacher would pick on these group of popular kids, in particular this one girl. He would pick on her, demean her, and just call her stupid. I remember feeling confused because outside of that, he was level-headed and fair. One day, this girl just point-blank asks him when he's throwing his usual insults, why does he pick on her? The teacher was

stunned, and he just stared blankly for a minute before moving on and never addressing her question. It was genius, but absolutely sad that a 12-year-old kid had to ask a grown adult in their 60s why he's picking on a child. Well, if I had to guess, the girl probably reminds the teacher, of some girl that he hated or had a crush on something when he was in school and he's taking out decades of repressed anger on her. Our next reply is from Schrodinger's Nutsack. My father-in-law was telling me about a kid that he grew up with. He saw the boy snap a dog's neck and throw it as a football for a joke. It was the serial killer Joseph Daniel Miller. I had to look this guy up. He is an American serial killer who assaulted and murdered at least five black women and

and girls in Harrisburg. Then, a similar story from Grotcha. When I was younger, my mentor told me a story about a guy who tried to corner her in her dorm at college about 10 years earlier. She'd escaped and reported him, only for the college to tell her that she could either press charges or they'd quietly remove him from the college. And they warned her that if she pressed charges, he wouldn't be expelled until the case was over, so she would have to see him on campus.

and even implied that she would be responsible for subsequent attacks on campus. She chose to remove him. Maybe a year after she told me this, a girl disappeared in my state and a man was arrested for her murder. Everyone in the state was talking about this case at the time. My mentor met up with me and told me it was him, the guy who tried to assault her in college. There was a month or two of limbo where the prosecutors weren't sure that he would take the plea deal and she might have to testify, but he ended up agreeing to plead guilty. He's since been convicted on two murder cases and suspected of nine more.

You know, one tip in life is that when people give you two options, there is usually a third and a fourth and a fifth option. What the mentor could have done, and you know, I'm not criticizing her for not taking this choice, is she could have demanded that the university removed the guy and then gone to the police to also press charges. So just remember, the next time someone tells you how it's going to be, this way or that way, just stop and think for a minute. You've probably got other options that they don't want you to take. Our next reply is from Royal Visit. A woman I worked with went on maternity leave about a week before her due date. Tragically, the baby died during delivery. This meant that her maternity leave ended and she went on bereavement leave. In other words, she would soon be returning to work.

The person who had been given the opportunity to cover her maternity leave complained to HR. She complained that it wasn't fair that just because a baby died, she would miss out on the professional development and salary increase she would have gotten while covering the maternity leave. She said she should be allowed to finish the originally scheduled maternity leave assignment and that the woman who had lost her baby should have to either take unpaid leave or work in her lower paying job. You know, my response to reading this story is, this woman should be fired.

But the cynical part of me, who's read a lot of Reddit stories, things that management is probably like, A complete lack of empathy? Promote this woman to a manager position immediately. Our next replies from the KinkyB. Some girl I know is constantly waving a gun in her boyfriend's face. She once lost her mind because when he got home from work, he dared to turn on the TV without her present.

and she came running down the stairs with a knife and stabbed the TV several times. She's constantly saying how if he calls the cops, she'll either kill them both or tell them that he's sexually assaulted her. This happens nearly every day and he just goes, no, it's okay. I'm fine sleeping in my truck. I truly feel for the dude, but he's going to end up dead. That was our slash am I the butthole. And if you like this content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day. day.