NOT GOOD, Connecticut shooter was diagnosed with Aspergers..

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyreg ... iller.html


""He carried a black briefcase to his 10th-grade honors English class, and sat near the door so he could readily slip in and out. When called upon, he was intelligent, but nervous and fidgety, spitting his words out, as if having to speak up were painful.
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Pale, tall and scrawny, Adam Lanza walked through high school in Newtown, Conn., with his hands glued to his sides, the pens in the pocket of his short-sleeve, button-down shirts among the few things that his classmates recalled about him


Several said in separate interviews that it was their understanding that he had a developmental disorder. They said they had been told that the disorder was Asperger syndrome, which is considered to be a high functioning form of autism.""

Excerpt from article.

News articles also claim James Holmes had this disorder.


I am getting worried now. I hope that we are not stereotyped and singled out for this crap. I have been bullied and beat up enough in my 22 years.

I just watched a psychologist on the Piers Morgan CNN show describe autistics and Aspies as having no empathy. He tried to kind of back down later, but the overwhelming impression was that we're potentially dangerous.

http://www.jaapl.org/content/33/3/390.full

I already have had family members look at me oddly since James Holmes. I am getting a bit nervous. I hope the general public of NT's does not take anything out on all of us. I live in the area of this as well. I have so much empathy for human and animal. This guy was sick. A couple of bad apples do not make up all of us.

I was so upset when I heard about this. Now I hear he has Asperger's. Oh my.

maybe he was visiting this website before..

Goddess DAMN it this is really starting to piss me off. They want to see an Aspie go postal? The next f****r that decides that having Asperger's is an excuse to shoot people at random is going to be down the barrel from MY gun. And I'm a pretty good marksman.

And course doesn't help that the media sees this issue as merely a profitable story (playing off peoples fears == more airtime == $$$). I swear to Goddess this world has gone to s**t. Part of me hopes the Mayans were right and we only have a week left until humanity's extinction. Not that humanity needs a cataclysm to facilitate it's own demise, they're doing a pretty Goddess-damned job of it on their own IMHO.

this is not the time to start threatening to kill people bro.

Makes me think about my therapist's intake questionare. She asks if anyone owns a gun.

The last thing that we need is some parent who lost a kid to seek revenge on people with the disorder. The media is riding this aspergers > school shooter correlation like crazy.

Please dude. Don't give them more ammo(no pun intended), this is the last thing we need. Show them by making it far in life like Einstein did. We are so intelligent, self reliant and we have put up with a lot of bullying, we are emotionally stronger in that regard. We can get back at them in other ways.

the last thing we need are people who are too hysteric

there are many more killers in potential in the US and other places.

for me it feels the same just to be intimidated by them.

fear from death is awful too. and we are all facing this fear each moment.

Exactly. I have an aspie friend who was "laid off" from work shortly after the James Holmes incident. It was likely because of Aspergers, his quiet, shy, and intelligent demeanor.

Hi, I'm in NZ and have not seen any... got any links thanks?

Sorry, but my first reaction to stuff like this is to rant. It's a character flaw of mine, in fact one of a few factors that cost me my relationship with Kyuuchan, so it's something that I'm trying to change. Apparently not quite there yet. Some days are better than others.

That said, I totally agree. I mean, Kyuuchan once told me that the majority of her school teachers thought she was destined to be a knocked up 16-yr-old dropout, and as such, her sole motivation to succeed was so that she could (in her mind) single out everyone at her graduation who said she'd never make it, look directly at them, and raise both of her middle fingers high in the air.

As bad as that sounds, that's a big portion of my drive to become successful, something that has recently been nurtured and encouraged via sudden unforseen opportunities - mainly Kyuuchan deciding I can stay her friend, but also because there's a tech park being built in Laramie that will coincide with my anticipated graduation date, which means if I can get my degree on time there will be several network engineering and sysadmin jobs in my hometown just waiting for a CIS* graduate to fill them.

Don't worry guys. Once I get out there, I'm going to start writing fantasy fiction, and if my high school literary contest is any indication, there's only a matter of time until I make it on the New York Times bestseller list. Then, once I've become a celebrity, I can put my fame to use advocating for the proper consideration of Aspies and autistics. I owe the world that much, at least.