Originally posted by: Bauer
talking about sadism in general. I can see fire and torturing animals as a form of inflicting pain. Makes them feel in power and control. But bed wetting...that doesn't tie in with anything.
I suppose you can regard bed wetting as a form of anti-social behavior. A lot of raising children involves teaching them all the rules they have to follow to be able to live in a society with other people. (Rules like maintaining personal hygiene, rules of politeness, taking the needs of other people into consideration, etc.) Maybe these antisocial PD people have some kind of deficit in picking up or learning those kinds of rules of appropriate social behavior, so they learn things like how to control bed wetting a bit later than other children. Kids who wet the bed later than other kids are usually embarrassed about it, I suppose, and they might be motivated to learn how to stop it. Maybe the antisocial PD people feel no embarrassment or stress in doing something that other people think is inappropriate, so it takes longer for them to stop that behavior?