[clouddrover]

> if you tell someone you are a sociopath they dissociate with you more or less immediately.

So? Why shouldn't they?

> So it's not in my long term interest to be open about that fact.

If you're not willing to be up front with people then it's disingenuous to complain about it being tiring. You say you deliberately manipulate people but that you're also unwilling to change that. You're making a deliberate choice. If you refuse to make a different choice then there's no point complaining.