There is a large difference between how this is supposed to work in theory , and how it works in practise. Suppressive person is a technical term. It describes someone who used to be called a Merchant of Chaos. Such a person is mentally stuck in a long-ago incident, and so does not perceive what non-SPs see at present time. The SP identifies everyone around him with his enemies in that long-ago time. There is a well-known HCOB entitled The Anti-Social Personality, which lists out the characteristics of the anti-social personality and the social personality.