NOT GOOD, Connecticut shooter was diagnosed with Aspergers..

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I was taught firearm safety at age five and went hunting with my dad at an early age. I consider myself more safe than my NT friends when it comes to firarms when we go target shooting. Maybe it is because of my Aspergers or maybe because I was raised right I don't know. I was bullied savagely in high school. I was beaten up, spit on, and had my shirt set on fire in studyhall once, but I never thought of going on a shooting spree. By the time I was in high school I owned a .22 caliber semi-auto rifle, a single shot 20 gauge shotgun, and a 12 gauge pump shotgun for squirell, turkey rabbit, pheasant, and deer hunting. I never once thought of killing a human with those firearms. My first firearm was purchased for me when I was twelve, it was a single shotgun. Everyone in my family did this with their kids and we have had no accidents or murders. Everytime I hunted it was for food. I like to think that it was celebrating my Appalachian and Native American heritage. I believe it has everything to do with upbringing.

The killer was mis-diagnosed, IMHO.

We were covered by CBS: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/ ... -massacre/

Did you see the first comment? Some people still don't understand even when a great news article like this ones explains our position as an autism community .

Autism Rights Watch said “the easy access to weapons in our households” is the most significant factor to blame for the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 children and eight adults dead – including Lanza and his mother.

I was about to post the same. Someone claiming people on the spectrum should be "treated" treatment with what? Magical Powers? Stablize? Stablizing a ASD person's life is more about the people around them then themselves! Handled right? Do we need diaper changes or something.

I blame his mother for his lack of empathy. My parents are simple people, dare I say poor West Virginian hillbillies. They do not have fancy college education based degrees. The shooter's teacher mother pulled him out of school and home schooled him. Big mistake according to my mom and dad. They did not know what was wrong with me in the 70's. No one diagnosed me with Asperger's they wrongfully dx'd me with ADHD. My parents did not know what any of that was, but they knew I was anti-social so they made sure to make me play with the other kids. I did not want to have anything to do with the other kids, so I would hide and my parents would find me and force me outside. I would have to play with other kids in whatever games they wanted to play. I learned how to interact with other people properly, I even learned how to speak up for myself and talk people into doing what I wanted.

I blame his mother for his lack of empathy. My parents are simple people, dare I say poor West Virginian hillbillies. They do not have fancy college education based degrees. The shooter's teacher mother pulled him out of school and home schooled him. Big mistake according to my mom and dad. They did not know what was wrong with me in the 70's. No one diagnosed me with Asperger's they wrongfully dx'd me with ADHD. My parents did not know what any of that was, but they knew I was anti-social so they made sure to make me play with the other kids. I did not want to have anything to do with the other kids, so I would hide and my parents would find me and force me outside. I would have to play with other kids in whatever games they wanted to play. I learned how to interact with other people properly, I even learned how to speak up for myself and talk people into doing what I wanted.

I would get my ass smacked if I acted out violently with my friends. My parents would ask if I liked getting hit, of course I said no and learned not to hit other kids. They also taught me empathy by buying me dog and making me take care of it. They also taught me responsibility and gave me a work ethic by giving me jobs to do on my dad's property clearing brush, stacking firewood, and planting trees. They never babied me or allowed me to use my "weirdness" as an excuse not to do something or go somewhere.

Adam Lanza's mother pulled him out of school to home school him. Doing this to him was great disservice. How would he be expected to learn to properly interact with people if she allowed him to hide from people? I might have been savagely bullied in school, but I had friends. I was awkward from K-7th grades and I learned how to better interact with people by staying in school. From 8th -12th grade I made friends easily because I was different and funny. Some people wanted to punch me in the face for being different and there were others who were attracted to my weirdness and sense of humor. I wonder if Lanza's mother shielded him from friends or going outside of their house trying to protect her son. I wanted to hide from people, but my parents pushed me out of the nest no matter how much I protested. Adam Lanza's mother must have played to his weaknesses instead of making him overcome them. She made a monster out of her son by trying to protect him from the kids at school and in the end little kids and herself became his victims.

Your shirt was set on fire, and still didn't want to strike back?
Geez, you have the patience of a saint, my friend.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

You know what's strange is that there has been little to no mention about the other attributes of Asperger Syndrome that would've been picked up if Adam Lanza really had Asperger's. I'm talking about the stimming, the monotone speech, the poor eye contact in conversation, the sensitivity to certain senses and textures. What do we get instead? More generic talk about how he was a loner and how he was smart. Therefore, he must have Asperger's. I would sure love to know who the doctor was that "officially" diagnosed him based on the "loner" criteria.