Rampage killer Chris Harper-Mercer was an Aspie

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All of these shooters seem to get diagnosed ASD... this might mean one thing, are we demons?.

how can we remove the 'demon' from us?

These are from the NY Times article.

There does seem to be a confirmed link Godzillawoman.



It seems highly likely that he had mental health issues in addition to AS.

It would be amusing if she had said that she and her son had both been "officially diagnosed with Asperger's." Then we would also know that she was a reader here at WP.

Chris Mercer and I have/had a lot in common - bespectacled, aspie, mixed race, immigrant, angry, LPN mother, absent father, etc. One big difference, though, is he actually liked his mother. She bought him guns and took him to the shooting range. I guess I should be grateful that mine was a crazy, religious, controlling, narcissistic miscreant that I got away from otherwise I might also had been a serial killer.

Looks like I am late to the party.

An article on cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/06/us/oregon ... index.html

Also if you go directly to cnn.com, the word "Asperger's" shows up in the lead in to the article.

Uggh. I am not going to be a happy camper tonight. Self-doubt. Paranoia. Wondering why God did this to us.

Where was that established as a fact?

Where and when was he assessed?

Who dx him?

What do you expect from Presstitutes who sell unsubstantiated rumor/hearsay as though it were truth?
Professional liars and BS artists nothing more.
f**k'm all.

The son must be diagnosed with something since he went to special school.
If those posts are the mother's, then he was diagnosed with aspergers as the posts say.
They don't mention any other diagnoses of the son.
Are the diagnoses relevant to the shooting?
Is the aspergers diagnosis relevant?
Can we reasonably say one way or another?
How would we know it is not relevant?
Or how would we know it is relevant?

Her email address was linked to the Yahoo account, that posted the messages. Anyway how many African American, gun fanatic, nurses with autistic sons do you thing there are? There may be a few others, but probably not a lot.

That's OK. It's people in the US that need to see it.

If it makes anyone feel better, I've been following this story pretty closely across the media spectrum, and no one is talking about autism, mostly they're just talking about guns. As an outspoken gun owning Aspie, I'm the most likely to suffer blow-back from this sort of thing, and if anything it's made me be more open about both my autism and my gun ownership, as my own one man counter-programming effort, but honestly I'm not that concerned on the autism front.

The Oz gun law changes did nothing insofar as murder with firearms is concerned (method substitution hasn't even kicked in). A similar number of people are murdered with firearms each year with the gradual down-slope/trend continuing on. More people have always been murdered with knives here (about 2:1).

There hasn't been as many massacres involving firearms; though, massacres with other weapons/tools have happened (which are often overlooked). Probably not enough of them in the first place to get an accurate picture, though. That's the one problem with using rare events as qualifiers, as you don't have enough data to use. With overall murders, you do.

You can look it all up yourself.

Anyone proclaiming Oz got it right doesn't know what they're talking about.

(Ironically, Martin Bryant has AS too.)

Uh, no.

On what facts do you make these conslusions, specifically the "proliferation of conservative religious congregations..."

I'm not paricularly religious, but what makes you think that? I'm curious and not attacking in any way.