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I think what Gagne does here is extremely interesting. She is a self diagnosed (by and large) sociopath who proceeds to learn all she can about sociopathy. Her investigation ultimately enables her to accept herself and her perceived differences from other people.

I mostly struggled with accepting the fact that Gagne is labelling herself, and I wonder about the wisdom and necessity of that. She describes serious anxiety that seems to arise from her own lack of feeling - - and this anxiety drives her to do bad things which then creates a feeling of release and relief. As a reader, it was a bit hard to really wrap my arms around a person who claims to be apathetic also having anxiety. If you claim to have minimal feelings, what is anxiety other than a feeling. There's something about her description of herself that seems as though maybe she's on the autism spectrum. Or has a compulsion disorder.

At any rate, her story has a narrative arc that seems a little "made for tv movie", but it also is satisfying in that regard. It felt uplifting in a way that many memoirs (often stories of messy lives that just can't be completely resolved) do not.