Patric's mother finds a stolen locket, and Patric calmly reveals an entire box of stolen items she has collected.

Patric stabs classmate Sydney in the neck with a sharp pencil and immediately feels a wave of euphoric calm.

Patric's mother leaves her husband and moves with Patric and Harlowe to Florida.

A man lures Patric toward a van by claiming to have kittens, and she narrowly escapes abduction.

Patric tours a prison with her uncle and recognizes her own traits in the sociopathic inmates for the first time.

Baby the ferret dies, and Patric feels no grief while watching television as her mother comforts her weeping sister.

Patric discovers Baby was buried without her and throws a glass pitcher at her mother in fury.

After overhearing her mother consider sending her to boarding school, Patric decides she must stop being honest.

Patric meets David at summer camp and, for the first time, experiences genuine companionship and romantic love.

Patric enrolls at UCLA and learns in psychology class that sociopaths commit antisocial acts in an attempt to feel emotion.

After researching sociopathy's bleak prognosis, Patric jumps from her dormitory balcony and lands unhurt on the grass below.

Dr. Carlin administers the psychopathy checklist and officially diagnoses Patric as a sociopath.

David appears unexpectedly at Patric's door, moves in with her, and his presence temporarily replaces her apathy with feelings of love.

Patric and David break up after he grows increasingly judgmental of her sociopathy and she feels his love has become conditional.

Patric devises a treatment plan with Dr. Carlin, reconciles with David through couples therapy, and they marry and have two sons.

Patric Gagne's memoir traces the defining arc of her life as a sociopath, beginning with childhood behavior that alarms her mother and leads to a pivotal decision to stop being honest. Her search for understanding intensifies when she recognizes her own traits in prison inmates and later in the medical literature she studies at UCLA. A suicide attempt marks the lowest point of her hopelessness before therapy provides her first official diagnosis. The reunion with her childhood love David offers temporary relief, but their relationship fractures under the strain of her unmanaged sociopathy. Ultimately, Patric builds a sustainable treatment plan, reconciles with David through couples therapy, and goes on to marry, have children, and work as a therapist specializing in the very condition that defined her life.

The headline story of Patric's life as a sociopath, from childhood to resolution.

Patric walks home alone in the dark from a slumber party rather than risk giving in to violent impulses toward her sleeping classmates.

Patric locks neighbor girls Sydney and Tina outside in the dark and retreats to her room to listen to Blondie records.

After Baby is buried without her, Patric steals her mother's ruby earrings and tries to flush them down the toilet in revenge.

After her family moves to a new house, Patric breaks back into the old home through a window to retrieve her hidden locket.

Patric secretly uses her mother's real estate keys to break into and explore empty houses as a way to relieve pressure.

Patric follows a man with a German Shepherd to his home and watches his happy family through their window in the dark.

Patric and David discover a hidden tunnel behind a kitchen cabinet beneath the former Rockefeller estate that serves as their summer camp.

At UCLA, Patric studies her fellow students like subjects and practices copying their facial expressions and gestures when she is alone.

A drunk student hands Patric his car keys at a college party, and she begins regularly joyriding in strangers' cars around Los Angeles.

Patric confesses to her father that she relieves pressure by attending strangers' funerals, and he urges her to find a therapist.

Jennifer reveals she moved her neighbor's killed dog to the street to make it appear the animal had been hit by a car.

After trespassing in an empty house, Patric introduces a broken Statue of Liberty keychain on the hall table as her honesty signal to David.

Arianne hands Patric a key and asks her to break into boyfriend Jacob's home and read his journal to check for infidelity.

Patric meets famous singer Max Magus at a music studio, and he is immediately captivated by her sociopathy.

Patric's family gathers for Thanksgiving and debates whether she should write a memoir about sociopathy or a self-help book instead.

This pool covers the secondary but essential events that fill out Patric's journey, from early antisocial acts rooted in compulsion to the relationships and discoveries that gradually shift her self-understanding. Her childhood habits of trespassing, stalking, and breaking into empty spaces are shown as deliberate pressure-relief strategies rather than random mischief. At UCLA, she invents a social disguise by mimicking her classmates and begins joyriding as a compulsion outlet. In the music industry, her collision with Jennifer exposes what a real abuse of sociopathy looks like and fuels Patric's developing moral code. The introduction of the Statue of Liberty keychain, the Arianne-Jacob episode, her friendship with Max, and the family's Thanksgiving debate over her memoir all mark key turning points in how Patric navigates honesty, exploitation, and identity.

The significant scenes and relationships that shaped Patric's path through sociopathy.

After stabbing Sydney, Patric digs her nails into her arms trying to force remorse but draws blood without feeling any guilt.

After visiting the Florida prison, Patric searches a dictionary for the word sociopath but cannot find any definition.

Patric latches a school bathroom door to lock several girls inside and is caught standing calmly outside as they scream and bang.

After overhearing her mother's despair on the phone, Patric decides she must stop being honest and begin pretending to conform.

At summer camp, Patric admits to David that she does not crave love, and he responds with complete acceptance.

Patric tells David about squeezing a cat's neck in a compulsive act, almost revealing the full story when he declares he loves her.

Patric researches sociopathy at the library and discovers the term has been dropped from the DSM, replaced by antisocial personality disorder.

In a conversation with Dr. Slack, Patric proposes that sociopathy may be a spectrum-based emotional learning disability similar to autism.

Patric discovers research suggesting that, unlike psychopaths, sociopaths may be capable of learning social emotions such as empathy and love.

Patric drives to Jennifer's boyfriend's Beverly Hills home, breaks in, and stands over the sleeping Jennifer while fantasizing about harming her.

Patric tells Dr. Carlin that society's view of apathy as a character flaw triggers destructive anxiety in sociopaths, and Dr. Carlin suggests graduate school.

Patric escalates her nighttime stalking of Ginny Krusi and nearly attacks her but stops when Ginny's son Liam unexpectedly appears.

At an abandoned cottage, Max plays piano, declares his love for Patric, and storms out furiously when she rejects him.

At Everly's concert, Patric confronts Max about their dynamic, suddenly experiences what she recognizes as genuine remorse, and apologizes to him.

Patric goes to David's door and reintroduces herself as a sociopath, asking directly if he can love her exactly as she is.

This pool focuses on the internal turning points and revelations that drive Patric's transformation from a confused child to a self-aware adult. Early moments of failed remorse and unsuccessful searches for her condition in the dictionary establish just how invisible sociopathy is, both medically and personally. Each encounter with her own compulsions — the bathroom lockout, the cat, the confession to David — deepens her self-knowledge and forces critical decisions about honesty and identity. Her academic research gradually builds a new framework for understanding sociopathy as a treatable spectrum condition rather than a life sentence. The spiral involving Jennifer, Ginny, and Max brings her to a breaking point that ultimately produces the clearest emotional breakthroughs she has ever experienced, setting the stage for genuine reconnection with David.

The key discoveries, decisions, and emotional shifts that define Patric's inner transformation.