Personally I think this book needed to happen. I know Gagne's goal was to reach out to other sociopaths/people with similar personality types searching for connection and to help them recognize the hope within themselves, but I think it's also an amazing resource for non-sociopaths for the first steps of understanding and normalizing what sociopathy, psychopathy, and antisocial disorder actually are and helping to dispel negative stereotypes about these personality types.
 
The fact that it's written as a memoir and not as a journalistic essay really evokes (maybe counterintuitively lol) empathy AND as a by-way, makes a lot of snobby psychology critics look like ridiculous twits when trying to give counter arguments to the entire concept of sociopathy OR claiming Gagne doesn't/can't have sociopathy because of what she wrote in an extremely edited version of her life lol.