Newtown school shooter = Aspie?

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It is SICK that they are already talking AUTISM, but NOT the fact that his parents were DIVORCED. The fact that he didn't kill his FATHER who lived nearby...Nope, just his mother. His mother, who although as some claim the kid is mentally disabled, had 3 guns in the house? Sorry, sounds like another kid of divorce that was pissed off and of course, they will NEVER blame it on a WOMAN, much less a MOM, even less a TEACHER...but instead, on autism.

Dear whatamess, the surviving brother, who was from that town, said he had not had contact in two years, so, yeah, you are right, there was some serious problems in that family.
As a teacher who was supposed to be able to evaluate emotional problems to some degree, her son could not have been an obvious threat, or:
He would have not been living with her
He would have been institutionalized
She would not have had weapons in the home.

Sylkat

I wonder where his best friend and girlfriend are at, or if both dead too, where are the bodies?

I imagine he was a schizophrenic like many of these shooters and his odd behaviors which may of been diagnosed as AS were early indicators of it. He's dead now so we'll probably never know for sure sadly. The actions of this man are his own tho, you cannot blame AS, gun, schizophrenia for what he did.

The only thing I heard was that he had a "personality disorder" but that doesn't mean that someone won't try to blame this on Asperger's.

Even if he was schizophrenic, he would have shown worsening symptoms, if he stopped his meds.
Have not heard any therapist claiming to have treated him,or claiming contact from the mother, concerned about his behavior or her own safety.
In addition, no one working any local pharmacy has claimed to have dispensed any psychotropics.
Wonder why there seems to be no history of threatening or violent behavior?

Maybe he was NOT on any spectrum, just angry and hateful and evil and chose to kill people?

Sylkat

Great just what we need; another sociopath with an alleged aspergers diagnosis;Anders Breiviek, Gemma Barker(the girl who 'became' three boys), now this gunman. I becoming really concerned with Aspergers and its representation in the media. People with no actual diagnosis claiming to have it, people who have committed certain misdemeanors; Gary Mckinnon (albeit a 'harmless' offense) coming to the news- bring Aspergers Syndrome into the spot light but yet it never being properly understood with any a**e h**le with an opinion stating what it is.

As if people with ASD aren't misunderstood enough.

I dont care what he had. Thankfully he had the guts to kill himself to save us alot of money by housing him in prison

Don't you just love how the media starts throwing out random names without even having the facts? At first, reported Adam Lanza's 24 y o brother was the killer. His brother is a professional tax guy with a career, very successful, and at work when this happened yet the media goes and blabs and claims he is actually the killer. It's so annoying. Lately media has been in irritation overdrive. Man, if the media reported something like that about me, I would be pissed as hell.

Well here ya go


El Linko


Again, it's nice when Uncle Sugar gives you a check for having a diagnosis, but when all those scared NTs start clamoring for "something to be done", that diagnosis seals your fate.

Except for spree shootings it may appear

Why do you think so many killers like this one are described as having Aspie traits? The number of suspected aspies is disproportionately high and it is not usually associated with homocide or even serial killing, but with gunmen.

Being a psychopath seems much more logical, but still they are mostly described as high-functioning autistic types.

Has anyone ever done a study whether Aspies are more prone to this kind of crime than to others?

The only thing that stops media irresponsibility is lawsuits.
Mr. Lanza could have had a SWAT team surrounding him when he got to to town, could have been hurt/killed by a distraught parent/relative of a victim.
Mr. Lanza should sue somebody's socks off.

Enough successful lawsuits will stop reporting without verification of facts.

Money talks.

Sylkat

So what if he had Aspergers, ASD, or OCD?

My lingering questions are around how he had access to his mother's arsenal, which seems overkill for an upper-class Connecticut neighborhood - and I have questions about that as well...

We hear about a spree killer being on the spectrum, but we do not hear that another murderer is NOT, so an idea is planted that we have more of a potential for violence than NTs.

We don't.

Sylkat