Do you think that virginia Tech killer Cho Seu was an Aspie?

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Correction: Borderline Personality Disorder in all its glory. BPD is known for being accompanied by the characteristics of dissociation, which is why I mistakenly drew that as my initial conclusion. Extreme BPD + self-centered, perfectionistic parents = massacre. I'd certainly have a bone to pick with Cho, himself, if he were still alive, but his parents and teachers should have taken more efforts to get him straightened out. I would have picked this kid out within ten minutes of knowing him. He wasn't rotten like a true sociopath, but he was a mad dog because no one bothered to take him in for DX. No, he wasn't Aspie, and, even if he was, it wouldn't have had nearly as much to do with his actions as BPD.

Post: #14RE: Virginia Tech Massacre: "He Was a Loner"

I haven't read through this Thread, but would like to add a Post Script from an earlier private message that I sent to a friend on AFF this morning:

Beammeup Wrote:
A sad note: Todays Headline in the paper was about the horrific killings at a college in Virginia. I'm sure it's gone global in the news. I fear to speculate that it was a misdiagnosed individual, given the wrong prescription that sent his brain into a psychotic rampage. End PS

My arm chair diagnosis of him is Schizotypal personality disorder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypa ... y_disorder

My logic: Loner, had Imaginary girl friend, said he could see promiscuity in a girls eyes,
stalker.

Schizotypal is likely a common condition that the criteria many persons with aspergers meet. But technically if one has aspergers it eliminates an official diagnosis of Schizotypal personality disorder.

Back to Alex's remark that Asian people aren't afraid how their image is affected.
yahoo news

Doubtful. Even if he does, he has way worse problems than AS. Here we go again with the stigma being put on loners as being sociopathic killers. Incidents like these really make me angry.

I doubt he was AS. Some people are just born like this (you typically know by a young age though). Still, it's scary to think about that even your neighbors could be like this somehow. Mine aren't, it's just an example.

I seriously doubt he was, to my knowledge, individuals w/ AS are more prone to suicide than acts of violance like that, it is possible though, but i hope to God its not (whenever the news tries to show Aspergers/Autism in a normal sense, they generally screw it up already, so i can only imagine what misinformation would come out of this)

I think it is very possible given he rarely talked, avoided eye contact, had few friends etc. I do agree with others I hope it doesn't give us a bad name. However I think it is important to realise that for whatever reason Cho was extremely lonely and angry. In order to help prevent future incidents this is important.

The latest I read is he was on SSRI's. I know a number of people who have been put on them and started acting insane when they had been normal people before. I know someone who got violent on them. Then there are reports from last year stating kids get suicidal on SSRI's.

It is true that as a South Korean avoiding eye contact is normal. Looking someone in the eyes for more than a split second is viewed as a threat. I worked for a Korean before and this is true. I think some of you need to rethink what you posted, or more like grow up, when you say psycho behavior is normal for Asians. It doesn't matter what race you are; you are no better than anyone else. Some of the kindest people I have ever met are Korean and Chinese and some of the worst are Caucasian Americans. In fact the majority of the famous psychopathes in America are Caucasian. That doesn't mean all Caucasians are psychos though. Race has nothing to do with this except for this kid may have dealt with racist pigs who bullied him. Murderers come in all colors.

The guy does seem to have some Aspie traits, but if he wasn't diagnosed before his death they can never prove it. He may have been maniac depressive too or could just have been the meds he was on.

I'd like to remind some of the old timers on here we have had a number of young people who claim to be Aspie post on here that they wanted to kill someone or themselves. In the times past when people have posted on here that they wanted to kill someone nothing was said against it nor was anything done about it. I don't think you can ignore those kinds of people. They might be just trying to get attention, but they might be crazy enough to try it too.

He was just one extreme of humanity, nothing more; nothing less.

(It'll never end until we do.)

NO!!