Adam Lanza diagnosed Aspergers, what happens with bad care

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I just found this video:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2336615746

Well, it seems like it's official that he was actually diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and he seems to have had a very severe form, as I am myself autistic I can actually understand the trouble he has been in, although his decisions were wrong.

I will tell in short the most important information about him given in the video:

He was apparently diagnosed with a reflex disorder, which means that his reactions at impulses weren't normal, for instance he couldn't stand being touched at a young age. This is similar to my severely autistic family member who can't be touched, but Adam seems to have had it at a young age. At a later age in middle school he was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome. He was known as a brilliant kid, he taught himself Mandarin Chinese and did other complicated things, he wasn't very good at making contact though. According to the journalists, what is one of the factors which could be most responsable for the tragedy is change. Because Adam couldn't stand change and he changed from school to school, while that wasn't good for him. Besides, when he went to university his good health care fell away and he didn't get any good care anymore, which could have lead downwards.

I actually think that if better care was given and a more stable environment for him, this wouldn't have happened in the first place.

They said he went on a murder spree because he wanted to top Anders Breivik's total, but after a short gunfight in the parking lot of the elementary school, he just opted to take himself out.

I was thinking along the same line about it. Violence is never justified, but I can see what might have been going on in him. He definitely needed more care.

I'm guessing it's depression as a result of constant, unending overstimulation, then. This whole thing is horrible.

Just a bad person.

Nurture ain't going to make someone murder a couple of classrooms' full of kids. "Bad", "evil", "the wrong biology", "nature", or whatever you like to call it, does.

For those who don't want to watch the video, the text version from the Hartford Courant. It automatically plays a video at the top, which you can pause via a button on the lower left of the video. Also, you may get an annoying popup ad for the "Connecticut Home Show".

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut ... full.story

It seems that Nancy Lanza constantly was shuffling Adam in and out of programs and schools, which is about the worst thing you can do to an aspie. He'd get settled, then she'd decide he was doing poorly, and off he'd go somewhere else. It's no wonder he eventually grew to hate her. In addition, she would fly off to various tourist destinations and leave him all alone in the house with TV dinners to eat; she said she wanted to make him independent, but he likely perceived it as being abandoned. She pulled him out of HS and away from his support system. He was too young and immature for college. When she decided that she was gonna move to some strange city with him, it likely set him off.

It seems that every indignation you can inflict on an aspie, she did it. She wasn't mentally ill unlike some of our parents, but she did everything wrong. An American supermarket tabloid claimed that Adam had started worshipping the devil, burning himself with a lighter, and believing that he himself was the personification of evil. I have to admit that similar thoughts about being the personification of evil crossed my mind more than once, and my upbringing was far more stable. The obsession with the Norwegian gunman would fit. I'm sorry, but Nancy largely dug her own grave here, her son was unstable to begin with and she did all this to him, constantly changing everything, and we hate change.

He was also on SSRI's, which have been linked to violence by multiple studies and banned in some European countries.

His murder spree may not have had anything to do with "bad care" or Asperger's, for that matter.