Disturbing stories of Aspies

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Alexander,

Actually NT is more a term from the people who study us. They always refer to everyone else as NTs. I've also thought about the whole oxymoronic value of calling a Schizophrenic a NT. And, in fact, you could even say someone with a severe brain injury is also not truly NT since their brain is not functioning typically at that point.


I guess we've just started to use the term because they do.

Zanne

Zanne,
Thank you for the clarification.

I just read about that kid who stabbed the other kid. If he was on all kinds of medications and had a history of talking about weapons and violence, where does that fit in with AS? I think the press just thought they had something with the whole AS thing and focused on it. It's pretty clear that kid had other things going on. The bigger question is why the school and parents didn't see that there was clearly a problem with him being so fascinated with weapons and violence.


It does sound like he killed that kid by accident. I wonder what that poor kid did to set that off. The really sad thing is that it sounds like the kid he killed was also picked on in school. The whole thing is just a tragic waste. But, I don't accept that AS had anything to do with it. There was another issue there.


And what is this about 22 cases of AS being used as a defense? What's that about? Is that the burning bed defense? I was victimized, therefore I became a victimizer?

How do you think that I became a rebel?

One problem is that it is hard to prove self defense when the abuse that a person suffers is extended over a long period of time. It is harder to establish that the abuse is life-threatening.

I was abused so I became an abuser? If that is the reality that a person is forced to endure for 18 years and longer, then what exactly is wrong with that plea? The person failed to make the Herculean effort that it takes some people to overcome such abuse? The person failed? Oh, he's not a machine, he can be held responsible, all that GARBAGE?

Learn to feel lucky for everyone who does come to some kind of accommodation. They are going above and beyond what they are rightly responsible for. So it may seem that almost everyone who goes through this manages, but I have other opinions. Instead of one person attacking one other person and injuring or killing them, the result is often a wave of mass murder committed by one nation against another, and they make it a holy cow instead of what it is, a thing that makes the term "obscenity" far less than enough to cover it.