Is Laura a psychopath?

I think Laura genuinely does not care much about other people, but that doesn't mean she's a psychopath. She seems like a garden-variety asshоle to me.

"Grover's a Muppet's name, Brian."

Absolutely. A shrink would peg her with a DSM diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder which is pretty much synonymous with psychopathy. I also think this is perhaps what the writers are trying to get at.

The clearest sign was when she was trying to let the lesbian girl down. She says, "I guess I just like him better than I like you." Other than Alex, this is the only friend with whom she's bonded. A normal person wouldn't put it anything like that. She's incapable of experiencing empathy. It's foreign to her.

The actress pulls it off really well. She seems annoyed rather than sad that she just emotionally drove a truck over her best friend. When she chases her down, the girl fires back, "I hope he dies before you get bored of forking him too," then leaves. If you watch her facial expressions after that, she seems puzzled. Even though she's lost her only friend, there is no remorse because she's incapable of feeling it. Any normal person, that would have hit like a ton of bricks.

The casual sex sure is interesting. For Alex, it's a bad habit. For Valerie, it's a way to validate herself. For Laura, it's the only way she can feel anything.

No I don't think that she's a psychopath. Her poor decision making and communication skills should be attributed to her being young, dumb, and immature. Not to being cold, calculating, selfish, and incapable of empathy.

I don't know about psychopath but she is a real kunt.

In the third season she has this tattoo that she got in sympathy
with the dying, and then not-dying, boyfriend, who know she cannot
stand and cannot be reminded of.

She asks her father for the money to remove it, and he says if she
pays half, he will cover the other half. So, she goes to her mother
and tells her than her father said that he would pay half if the mother
paid the other half. Of course the mother talks to the father and the
story comes out.

The mother asks her why she lied to her, and she says "because I'm
a teen-ager".

Oh, god, that burned me up. I started to really be annoyed and almost
hate that character. Maybe it is because teen-agers, and a lot of other
older people are like that, and one then has to wonder how many people
who you think are civilized nice people that are your friends behave
like this, and how do you deal with people without treating them all
as potention psychopaths and wanting to hold a gun on them to keep
them at bay!?

Seriously, I don't think I could take being a parent to a kid like that. Are
there kids that are really like that, and what do you do? That would be
like torture for me to have someone in my life that close that I could not
trust. Who might steal from me, or who might cause a scene or disaster
at any moment. Life is stressful and hard enough as it is.

A year ago you wrote this?
Wow.
No activity on this board since then mostly.
Do you still watch this show?
I really like this show.
There are great characters here, and interesting interactions.

But as to your question, Laura drives me out of my mind.
I am not sure why, though if I could figure it out it would probably be a great leap for me.

Her selling of her Mom's new table that she knows means a lot to her mom pretty much pushed her into the trash can of characters that are probably irredeemable.

I think the first time was when she justified her trying to steal money from her Dad and Mom by saying she was a teen-ager and she was supposed to do that ... or something.

What would make it more real or better writing is if there was something obvious that was bothering her. Does she have bad parenting? It seems like her Mom and Alex are responsible, if selfish.

I just do not like any scene where she is in it now though.