They are not presented as sociopathic, but massively conflicted. Clark’s early childhood is marked by infant health struggles and elementary-school age worrisome behavior (like freaking out and locking yourself in a closet at school). Clark is viewed by his foster parents, rightly, as a person to be protected, because…

Easily the best scene for what you’re describing is in BvS where Clark has a crisis of faith in Superman and flies off, goes to the mountaintop and has a chat with dad. The story that Kent tells about saving his farm with heroic effort, and the unintended consequence of that heroism meaning the Lang farm was…