28% of murderers thought to have suffered from ASD

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I don’t feel that “sensory issues” would incite a person to murder someone.

There’s something else going on other than autism.

I do agree, that is comorbidity of psychopathy and PDD-NOS.

Yesterday I was startled by the presence of a small black wasp in my bathroom so I sprayed it with Raid and then just sat and watched it die. Deep down I felt bad for the little bugger, but that didn't stop me from watching until it finally stopped wriggling around on the floor. Then I gave it a burial at sea (flushed it down the toilet).

Does that mean I'm a psychopath and therefor a potential murderer?

Maybe not, because I went to bed last night wondering if the wasp was screaming as it writhed on the floor and I just couldn't hear it. It felt pretty unpleasant.

I'm feeling more empathy and guilt for a bug than I normally do for a human.

I think that PDD-NOS should be in DSM-5 and ICD-11 when it comes to diagnosing criminals with some form of Pervasive Developmental Disorder, because not everything that some serious criminals with ASD do are autistic behavior.

The problem is that there are situations where not all killers deserve death penalty, and the motivation for every killings is not the same. Another problem is that 4 percent of people in death row are innocent according to the innocents project.

We need to be sure that a person is sadistic enough to get death penalty, just being a killer is not enough.

I have mixed feelings about death penalty because wrong people get capital punishment, regardless if they are a criminal or not.

I would not put killers to death row, if there is evidence that they have emapthy and remorse, that sounds more like revenge than punishment. There has to be proof that a person is too dangerous, megalomaniac, and lacks emapthy and remorse in order to put such person to death, and not for punishment anymore, but because the person is too dangerous to others, and if we decide to keep such people alive, they belong in a mental hospital, because they are too dangerous to be in regular prison. It shouldn't matter if you know right from wrong at this point.

I call BS on ASD being a factor. Abuse, bullying, shaming and other general mistreatment due to ignorance on the part of NTs is a much more likely factor (where ASD is present in a murderer, anyway).

All of which I have endured, and I've never committed or been charged with anything worse than a traffic ticket.

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I don't know how to act my age, I've never been this old before. Which begs the question....
Since ASD means various parts of the brain stop developing at various ages...
Just how the hell am I supposed to know WHICH age to act, anyway?

The problem is that there is a very strong link between being having neurodevelopental disorders related to or part of the autistic spectrum and being victimized more than the general population. Some people with ASD that have been victimized happen to have psychopathic traits, but most people with ASD that are victimized are more likely to be suicidal than being acting out on anger.

So it is a factor, but only very small proportion of what is going on with those criminals, as they also have psychopathy as well.

If you’re interested in forensic psychology, you should research mass murderers more.

Most of them seemed, to me, to be opposites of those with ASD.

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc., were proficient social beings.