I hate weapons.

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Particularly firearms. When I see a window of a shop selling weapons I feel revulsion. And I abhor any form of physical violence. Can’t stand it: be it exercised against humans, or animals. In movies I can see violence against humans because I know that it is tomato ketchup, but I have more problems about animals, because, in most cases, animals are really killed. The worst to endure for me is violence against powerless living beings, tied up persons or creatures, like in executions or slaughtering. If you ask me if I am a vegetarian, I answer: I have been off and on a vegetarian all my life, but I admit it’s very complicated, because, want it or not, you are part of system where violence and killing is endemic and embedded. But I don’t like it. I also know that physical violence is not the only form of violence, and I suffered much of it myself. Mental abuse and cruelty may be even worse than physical violence and is all around us.
Is this part of autism? Man, like his nearest kin, the chimp, is a very aggressive animal, but internecine violence is different from aggressiveness: aggressiveness is fight within some rules, is emotional and communicative, it doesn’t ends in killing as a rule. Killing, particularly with a weapon, a gun, is cold, unemotional. Is not motivated by hostility or hate but by achievement. Also I am not aggressive, but I insist that’s a different thing and while I consider my lack of aggressiveness a fault, I would not say the same of abhorrence of killing.

they really kill animals in movies?
i thought that was like what peta and s**t prevented.
i seen "no animals where harmed in the making of this" msg sometimes

What would you do if some one attempted to hurt or kill you? I don't like violence either, I would far rather talk my way out of a situation that resort to it, but the world in which we live sometimes nesscitates it, and I would far prefer to commit violence upon some one who intended to hurt or kill me than suffer from their attack.

Cats will hunt for sport. They kill birds and snakes without the slightest intention of eating them. They might kill mice without eating too. They'll eat all the fish they catch though. Cats LOVE eating fish.

I guess I don't really see the difference between agressiveness and what you're describing as cold bloodedness. Plenty of bar fights end in deaths. Are you trying to differentiate between like crimes of passion, and systemized killing (eg the Holocaust or slaughterhouses)? The mainstream view of Autism, I'd think, is that we'd have less of a problem with killing something or with watching something die than most people (because we're short of empathy, self-preoccupied, etc), but I've always had the impression that I've had a harder time with death than people around me. I don't like to see people killed in movies and as a kid I didn't like to randomly kill bugs (although I remember at least one instance where I spent an afternoon crushing ants on a sidewalk and feeling guilty about it).

I'll give up my guns when everybody else does first.

As far as AS is concerned there is a belief that people with AS are more likely to want to protect the vulnerable,and I can identify with that.I seem to be more effected by hearing about the rapes and genocides in Darfur,then I was about the 9/11 killings.I think maybe because it was hyped like a made for TV movie(and then they made the movie)Some how those deaths were different....for one thing,the people who of 9/11 are dead,not suffering.The people in Darfur and in a lot of poor countries are currently suffering with no end in sight.Death bothers me less then suffering and the insanity of humans who inflict it.That makes me feel hopeless and suicidal(and has since teen years).

I think people feel more sympathy for the victims of 9/11 then the survivors of New Orleans.Please tell me how Bush got re-elected?

There is a part of me that scares myself.It is more of a "role" then the real me...but when I imagine being backed in a corner by some one with a knife...I can imagine ripping their throats out with my teeth.....yet,I have been raped,robbed and hit and have never done more then calmly stand there and try and reason with the person.I did have a psychotic break after being robbed 6 months after an attempted rape.I was paranoid that the guys would come back and seek vengeance after I identified them.Yet at the time I felt detached and felt no actual hate for them.

I did once think that if I were to act out on my suicidal feelings,I would be tempted to take out a few pedophiles before I went.At least provide kids with some justice.....I doubt I could do it though...I still believe in the possibility of Karma an dont want any blood on my hands.

I feel revulsion about certain kinds of weapons

cluster bombs are the number one in this category, chemical, biological, and weapons that are viewed as non-lethal but can be very much so <tasers are a big one in this category>

on the other hand some weapons fascinate and amaze me, MOAB and daisy cutters are just amazing devices to me, yellow dogs, firearms, tanks, aeroplanes, and, oh god missiles, missiles are fascinating


but the ones I do feel revulsion towards I do feel almost physical illness when I hear tha the government has developed more or purchased more