Lemme put it this way. There are infinite worlds that each have their own laws of physics, so you can be anything. I played a piece of IKEA furniture that was so incorrectly assembled it achieved sentience.
It could easily have been you. That's the thing most of us need to remember, hormones can make any of us feel anything if they really wanted to. Any of us could grow a tumor or develop rage at any point in our lives.