Chaotic Situations

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Recently, I came to the conclusion that I have a fascination with watching chaotic situations unfold and observing how people react to them. For example, just recently I had a couple days' obsession with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and I watched a bunch of videos on Youtube. I particularly liked watching the people on the streets react to the Twin Towers falling down. Also, I've been watching some videos on the Columbine shootings, and I liked watching the security camera footage of the students panicking in the cafeteria when they learned that there was gunfire going on around them.

Can anybody else relate? I hope I don't freak anybody out by saying this, because I would never commit violence against people. I just enjoy watching people's reactions to chaotic and otherwise horrible occurences. Please don't judge me too harshly.

That sounds familiar! Technical interest, wanting to know why people do things and why they don't.

I had a fascination with warfare for instance - tactics, strategies, etc. But never had an empathic pleasure with people dying and suffering.

I am making a job out of it as an Social Worker , nothing to be ashame of.

Yep, that sounds interesting. Not weird.

i find it fascinating too, maybe because i'm not very reactive and wonder whether i could muster up anything similar in a more dire situation.