I dunno, I totally have violent fantasies I've never acted on. They're just fantasies. I tend to fantasize about whatever the most inappropriate thing to do in the situation is. Like, I'll be talking to someone and think, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if I just smacked this person?" not because I'm mad at them, or dislike them, the thought just pops into my mind.

The worst is on high places... bridges, cliffs, etc. I want to jump off or push the person next to me off. Or throw my purse off, or my engagement ring, or anything valuable really.

Or I want to stand up in Church or at a concert and swear.

But whatever. It's just fantasies. As long as one doesn't act on it, who cares? I don't think it makes you psychotic.

Ah. I see they've found my ex.

Once I was containing a sudden imperative to smack a monologue-delivering guest upside his head. At that moment, "My Cat From Hell" jumped up on the table and whacked him four times on the moustache. With claws.
I love that cat, even though he's a walking lawsuit. I think we all have sociopathic moments.

One aspect of this article confused me. Perhaps somebody with a background in psychology can help me to understand?

In the beginning of the article, she notes that "[she] was not a victim of child abuse". She then details a very abusive childhood, and near the end of the article says "I wonder, though, had I been raised in a more abusive home, whether I would have blood on my hands".

???

Thank you!

I'm going to have to go read the full article tomorrow sometime. From the excerpt, I'm a sociopath. I have gotten so mad that yes, I would have killed and damn the consequences. And yes, usually for trivial stuff. The truly horrific betrayals seem to leave me more even keeled. Kind of like my mom-track mud on her carpet? Run for your life. Get arrested, or pregnant as a teen, or arrested for drugs? She can be calm about that.

But maybe the fact that I didn't kill anyone any of those times, means I'm not one.

The trouble with normal women-- okay, people-- is they're *so* normal.

I don't know much about this type of thing, but I think the idea was that she has no remorse. She is the star of the universe, and people are just pawns for her to manipulate and destroy for her own purposes, or even just her pleasure.

I have been thinking about it though, and I wonder if at least some people around her aren't aware of the inner workings of her brain, despite her smug belief that people are too stupid to catch on. I dunno, just thinking out loud.

Too many people madly-underestimate just how many people with this sort of personality walk among us every day.

I was taught the rule of 90-9-1 by an older, wiser sergeant, who explained it to me this way - 'Son, out of every 100 people you meet, 90 of them will be perfectly normal, reasonable and generally no problem whatever. 9 will be foolish, or deranged - capable of saying or doing almost any idiotic thing you can imagine, but not actually malicious, just misguided. And one will be a stone-cold certifiable sociopath, who knows what he's doing and is comfortable being that way. The trick in police work is to recognize Mr 1% when you see him coming - and it's almost-always a He.'

That was quite a few years ago, and my observation since tends to make me think, that, while it might sometimes be 1 in 150, his proportions are generally pretty-much accurate.

llater,

llamas

Everyone has the occasional violent thought or fantasy. They key component is a lack of real empathy for others feelings . "but I also struggle to react appropriately to other people's confusing and emotion-driven social cues."

Also there is a complete lack or remorse for any action.

with a bit of luck, we won't have the next Amy Bishop, but the brain issues, may well be similar:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201831/Amy-Bishop-Ex-professor-pleads-guilty-shooting-dead-colleagues-wounding-others.html

This isn't a matter of violent fantasies, or getting enraged... this is a matter of people who believe that they alone have the rights over life or death, and they just don't have a reflex to curb that feeling.

If you meet one, you better hope you have a CCW, and the ability to use it. These are the sort of people that if you best them, they WILL hatch an elaborate plan to get you, and they never, never stop.

We see them a lot in the criminal circles, when you find out what they did, and why, you say, "but that's so over the top I dun get it." Like killing a child over a play station.

What we tend NOT to pay attention to, is that there are quite intelligent, learned people who have similar wiring issues, and are far better at planning on how to make you pay.

They are the more dangerous, because you don't see them coming.

"This isn't a matter of violent fantasies, or getting enraged... this is a matter of people who believe that they alone have the rights over life or death, and they just don't have a reflex to curb that feeling."

This argues for many people in government being sociopathic. "They" know what is best for you, and here's how you're going to get it.

Sounds like a typical Tuesday to me.

Wake up....
Eat Breakfast...
Get dressed for work...
Get on the bus for work...
Exit bus, find a stranger that says something...
Fantisize about killing them with a stapler..
Eat lunch...
Finish work...
Etc, Etc....

Where is the problem?

I don't think sociopaths do it for their pleasure. Pleasure would imply that they have feelings.

It's not a matter of sadistically manipulating anyone for their pleasure, or killing for their pleasure. They simply see manipulation and murder as a means to an end.

Stephen King did a pretty good example of one in his novel "It." The character of Patrick Hockstetter found that when his baby brother was born, it disrupted his schedule. His meals came late, and his parents were tired more often. So, he calmly and methodically murdered his baby brother. Not because he hated the baby. His parents could have 100 babies for all he cared. But because the baby disrupted his schedule. Therefore, he killed the baby. Problem solved.