I may or may not be a sociopath... help

Was reading about the MacDonald Triad and holy eff, seems like i fit the bill. Throw away obviously but I am getting concerned.

Animal Cruelty: I actually own a cat right now. I love it! He's super cute and snuggly and I don't abuse it in any way. However... when I was a kid, I used to do stuff like toss ants into spider webs, obliterate ant hills with lighterfluid+fire, and shoot at stray dogs with BB guns. I like to think and write this off as just normal kid behavior, but is it?

Obession with fire: We had a pretty urban backyard, so I used to light things up all the time. i loved bic lighters and lighter fluids. I would burn various objects, such as gasoline, insects, oil, wood, etc. I'd like to think of myself as a 'scientist' and 'experimenting' with stuff though. Seems like normal kid behavior?

Bedwetting: I don't want to get into the embarassing details. Parents would have to wake me up in the middle of the night with a 'pee-cup' so I didn't wet the bed. but I've been fine ever since I can remember.

Sometimes I get what are called "intrusive thoughts" (Another thing I learned on reddit!) and they're pretty violent. However I obviously don't act on them. I also infrequently fantasize about people I don't like and killing them in various gruesome fashion, but it seems like from other threads and comments that these are all perfectly normal. I appear to be a perfectly normal, college-educated man who works a corp job.

Real question... AM I NORMAL?!?!?

Posted Dec 2, 2011, 4:07 AM UTC

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