Possible explanation comes out: Fear of Being Committed

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This sounds credible to me. His mom had started process to have him involuntarily committed. Still doesn't explain what mental condition he had yet, but the Doctor running the medical investigation (Carver) said in another article today that 'Aspergers isn't even on the menu' as far as what they are looking for. A third article today said so far have found no indication that Lanza was on any meds. Main source is Marine, who grew up there and is son of local pastor. Lanza's possible grudge against the school is also mentioned.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fe ... n-to-snap/

Your link has a t at the beginning where h should be.

It does sound like a plausible motive. It's even possible, if she was friends with all three, that she consulted with the principal, psychologist and teacher on her decision.

BUT you don't have someone committed or put under conservatorship for autism - at least I've never heard of that. So, if this is true, there had to be a lot more going on with him than possible autism.

And why, why, why, if she questioned his ability to function that much, why did he have access to guns that were registered to her? And where was his dad in all this? His brother? Geez, this is just a nightmare all around. Poor woman was dealing with a clearly very troubled son and apparently with no help or support at all from other family members. I'm so sad for her at this point.

God, what a sad shame.

Makes it look real bad for the rest of us, too. Like no matter how OK we are at any given moment in time, we're a mass killing waiting to happen. I am so sick of being treated that way-- knowing that no matter how long I function very well, in a lot of people's eyes it's just an illusion, an interlude before "reality" rears its ugly head.

Makes me want to be dead. Not that I'll act on it-- but I might wish that the inherited heart defect that killed my dad is also in me, and that I'll simply drop dead sometime while things are still good. I hate thinking that the bad times-- which have made up about 15% of my life to date-- are "the reality" and everything else is "a reprieve."

What a misearable shame. That mental health treatment should be such that a person feels that killing all these people and blowing his own head off is preferable to a stay in the psych ward.

Too bad the attetion this brings to the state of mental health care in America will result in changes for the worse, not for the better.

Would that the average human being had a tendency to think logically rather than emotionally. I would be a lot less afraid right now.

Something to add. In the flurry of reports that have come out (some erroneous) I saw one early on about there being an altercation between Lanza and 4 adults at the school the day before the shooting. As the story went, three of the four were killed, including principle and pyschologist. The 4th, a male was not at the school the day of the shooting.

But the story disappeared quickly & I never saw it again. I thought it weird it just disappeared and assumed it might therefore have proven false.

Or it could be the doomsday theory? This particular motive is not yet set in stone. I still think he was pushed over the edge by all this talk of Mayan doomsday. It's upsetting to some people and they react to the stress by becoming more unstable than normal and it's not just Adam Lanza but many others as well. Some people are very sensitive to these subtle stresses even if they are not consciously aware of it, it affects their psyches and could their behavior as well.

I can't help but wonder what would have happened to this boy if he had pursued computer science, and wonder why he hadn't continued down the path of taking those college courses... It doesn't seem right that AS alone is a reason for all this. I hope that the information they find can explain any other influencing factors.

The Mayan calender thing being a factor is possible I suppose. It is not looking good for getting the data off his hard drive right now, which would be a shame for it might indicate something of that nature if he was visiting those type sites.

I do hope it is not just left at aspergers, but that something more consistant with psychosis comes out. He was at an age when certain psychosis typically begin to show. But in many cases and for various reasons it takes a long time for those to get diagnosed correctly. I just read the medical examiner did confirm he had a Aspergers diagnosis. I guess its in the medical investigators hands and we will just have to wait and see.

I did want to say, that aspergers does not affect a persons core personality, and that anyone NT or AS can simply be a bad egg. You don't have to read many other headlines to see there are plenty of those:

In 2011 - the latest year for which detailed statistics are available - there were 12,664 murders in the US. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms.

I just read about Adam Lanza's mother took him to the shooting range a few days before the shooting spree. This doesn't sound like the actions of someone who is wanting to involuntarily commit her child. Sounds like the actions of a trusting parent. If a parent thought her child was a danger and needed to be committed, would she take him someplace where he can hone his shooting skills?

You could be right. I also just read a story where it said there is absolutely no connection between his mother and the Sandy Hook Elementary.