Infamous Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer May Have Had AS

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19 Jun 2005, 7:31 pm

Now, I think a far better candidate for Aspergers and who still happens to be ALIVE is the Unabomber.

Discuss amongst yourselves. :)


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19 Jun 2005, 8:20 pm

I would love to continue to debate the Dahmer topic, but am leaving the country for 10 days 3:30 this AM...perhaps when I get back.

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Now, I think a far better candidate for Aspergers and who still happens to be ALIVE is the Unabomber


Although I strongly disagree with several of the points in your assesment of Dahmer. I agree with you on this one



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19 Jun 2005, 9:22 pm

Dahmer sounds Autistic to me. His childhood seems oddly like my own, minus the animal bones of course. His father defanitely sounded AS (or HFA), so it makes him (Dahmer) a prime candidate.

BTW, I think the Unabomber's been discussed before and AS was ruled out.


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19 Jun 2005, 9:25 pm

Why wait till he's dead to dx him though? He was alive in the nineties so it all seems too convenient.

They seem to be doing their own version of cannibalism on JD, dis(re)membering the corpse and being obsessed with pieces of it.

I also don't find their method scientific. They reached a conclusion then felt they had to find evidence prove that conclusion and no other. This type of thinking usually means people ignore anything that would disprove their claim. I think a genuine scientific method is more open to other results than that. I'm not sure as I couldn't locate the footnote reference to the authors but it seems the authors are all GPs, not psychiatrists or any other type of head doctor.

I don't dispute that we have our own murderers and criminals in AS, but I don't want to see it become a 'one size fits all' label stuck on any crime with a 'bizarre' character, or on any perceived 'misfit' as I'm concerned about the social need for scapegoats - the need to feel that all evil is done by 'not us'. I think it's important to note and object to any trend to negatively stereotype AS people as 'violent' or 'criminals' or whatever.



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19 Jun 2005, 9:45 pm

Sarcastic, the Unabomber was discussed for maybe having AS but it wasn't ruled out. If you're refering to him receiving the diagnosis of Schizophrenia during the trial, it is easy enough to see that being labeled with a Psychotic Illness won him a lesser punishment (i.e., life in prison and not the death penalty). The Schizophrenia diagnosis was a TACTIC.

But look at his childhood behavior. You can't get more Aspergers than that. Sincerely.


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20 Jun 2005, 2:13 am

Jeffrey Dharma may have had "asperges tendencies" but I'd suggest he had something more than just that - whatever it is, I'm glad nobody I've ever come across has it.

One funny thing:

The last track of "51_13 The Singles Collection" by Aphex Twin is called "Respect List".

Here is my deciphering of the lyrics:

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Respect going out to Shammi, Maffu, Gentle John, Cylob Industries, Grant and Ted

Thanks to Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish,
Leila and 109,
Danny, Rob and Steve
Stuart Mike and Eel
Matt Loach and His dogs next door
Jim and Tom Vulva, Rhysa
Phillie-T
Maurice and Gwen.


I don't know about most of it but definately the "Thanks to...." part is correct.

I love that guy (Aphex Twin not "J.D.")



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20 Jun 2005, 3:31 am

I only recognize Dahmer and Albert Fish in that lyric... oh well.


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20 Jun 2005, 11:20 am

Sarcastic_Name wrote:
Dahmer sounds Autistic to me. His childhood seems oddly like my own, minus the animal bones of course. His father defanitely sounded AS (or HFA), so it makes him (Dahmer) a prime candidate.

BTW, I think the Unabomber's been discussed before and AS was ruled out.

Speaking of 'famous' Wisconsinites :o , even though he did his deeds before most or all of our times (in the 1950s), what about Ed Gein?

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20 Jun 2005, 11:28 am

No. He was just raised in a bad family and was mentally disturbed. He did not have any AS traits in my opinion.


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20 Jun 2005, 12:54 pm

It also my opinion that Dahmer did not have AS and was not even on the autistic spectrum infact i think he was on a syndrome of his own.....................insane in the membrane! i find this qiute disturbing that he is even likened to anyone with AS.
I know that there is a small chance that people with AS can do criminal acts, as can most people NT's included but the chances of someone with AS doing anything like he did, would i belive be extremly rare, i dont think anything about him fits into the AS criteria.


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20 Jun 2005, 5:25 pm

ManureMental wrote:
It also my opinion that Dahmer did not have AS and was not even on the autistic spectrum infact i think he was on a syndrome of his own.....................insane in the membrane! i find this qiute disturbing that he is even likened to anyone with AS.
I know that there is a small chance that people with AS can do criminal acts, as can most people NT's included but the chances of someone with AS doing anything like he did, would i belive be extremly rare, i dont think anything about him fits into the AS criteria.


Are you saying that someone with AS is incapable of doing what Dahmer did? Just because someone has AS doesn't automatically make them a good person. There are probably people with AS who do horrible things, like murder.

It is likely that Dahmer had other issues, but it is difficult to call someone insane. In psychology, there is no such thing as insane. It is only a leagal term that courts use.



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21 Jun 2005, 12:33 am

Sophist wrote:
I only recognize Dahmer and Albert Fish in that lyric... oh well.


I'm guessing everyone else on the list are just random people that he knows personally and aren't famous. That's what makes it funny. :wink:



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21 Jun 2005, 12:38 am

I could easily be as evil as jeffry, but i am not very ambitious and i have no strong hates for anyone.



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21 Jun 2005, 12:27 pm

I have no hate for anyone either.



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21 Jun 2005, 12:46 pm

I resist being a crazed murderer regardless of how tempting it is. Some people are just stupid and don't know when to stop. All I need is someone to push me over the edge and I'll have fallen into insanity. Luckily, I have a very high tolerance for idiots.

As for the Unabomber, maybe I just came to the conclusion that he wasn't AS after reading about him. I'll have to find the thread...or not... :roll:


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21 Jun 2005, 3:52 pm

bec wrote

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Are you saying that someone with AS is incapable of doing what Dahmer did? Just because someone has AS doesn't automatically make them a good person. There are probably people with AS who do horrible things, like murder.

my answer to this is an obvious no , someone with AS is probably very capable of committing such an offence and probably more likely to get away with it as well, being more devious than most it would more likely be the perfect crime- Having AS also will not make a person automatically good, as we all know good and bad exist side by side throughout all walks of life, irregardless of religion creed and colour, one mans freedom fighter is another mans mercenary.
I think having read about Dahmer, I dont think he had AS, it is so easy and quick for people to say someone has AS when they are dead, It's so much harder trying to get the same diagnosis for someone when they are alive it takes forever to say that you have it.


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