NOT GOOD, Connecticut shooter was diagnosed with Aspergers..

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It seems to be like while people with ASD tend to be less prone to acts of violence, on rare times when they do become very violent however it tends to end with so many deaths. Seems like most school shooting suspects had aspie traits too.

Well what I'm trying to say here, is that normally with any case like this.....they first gather criminal history or arrest records and slather them all over the media to give some sense of peace as to why this happened.......and to of course claim the person was bad bad bad.......but the funny thing is they didn't do squat. Actually they would not give revealing information about the shooter......and that left me very "suspicious" that there was something more here.

In case you all didn't know, just a few days ago, in Casper, Wyoming, another boy diagnosed with aspergers shot and killed both his parents too. (I'm starting to wonder if since so many have been diagnosed since the early 1990's with some for of autism, that this is the end of the world as we know it). The dude in Oregon, that went whacko with a gun in the mall......had no history of violence, but yet, most considered him quiet, soft spoken and then he just......well snapped. But it's funny, cause even though they say he was "popular" in school.......there is no record of him being involved in extra curricular activities at all....... Just think about it.......and then hide your guns lol......I'd prefer to go down with a fight if you know what I mean.

When I heard on the radio that they thought he may have aspergers, I first thought they were just jumping to conclusions, like it seemed like they did in this video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6HvQf0HKaM[/youtube]
But from how he is described in the OPs' link, it does seem that he did have AS.

I am kinda worried about all of this. I'd hate to think that people (even if it's a small number) may end up seeing something that is a fundamental part of who I am, as being synonymous with being a potential murderer who could go on a shooting spree without warning.

I love guns, target shooting and hunting. I can just imagine in the near future another line on the background check form for purchasing firearms, just below the one asking if you've been committed to a mental institution... "Have you been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder?"

I don't want to turn this into a gun debate. I just want to give an example of the possible discrimination that I'm worried could come from all of this.

Now its on the front page of CNN near the top graphic "Family member: Suspect had form of Autism"

I don't have the right to judge whether Adam Lanza is an Aspie or not. Initially, I'm very angry whenever NTs say stuff such as Aspies are more prone to violence than NTs. I thought, "How dare they stereotype us like that!" But now, I'm trying to figure out why these NTs think that Aspies are prone to violence. (Disclaimer: I still think that "all Aspies are violent" is a stereotype doesn't deserve to exist.)

1. I don't know about other Aspies, but I have a violent temper. I'm trying very hard to keep it in check.
2. My thinking tend to be more black-and-white than most NTs' thinking. If there is a nasty person within a group, most NTs have no problem socializing with all members of that group while staying away from that person. As for me, I will stay away from that entire group because I have a tendency to think that people who are part of the group that the nasty person belongs to might be guilty by association. I'm trying to get rid of such black-and-white thinking, but sometimes it still haunts me.

If a person has a violent temper and happens to hate entire groups of people, argh, maybe he/she will resort to violence the day his/her irrationality defeats rationality.

As an aside, I discovered WrongPlanet after a shooting incident in 2005 at a fitness club I think in Orange County, California. The news report indicated the shooter was an aspie, and I heard Alex on the radio (KFI with John & Ken). I think that was about the time I was figuring out what Aspergers was, and beginning to take some comfort in the notion that my quirky and often frustrating life path perhaps came about due to factors that were hard-wired, rather than as a result of personal failures of character or will. Anyway, in this 2005 incident, there had been enough warning signs that the shooter was about to blow...some troubled posts on the Internet (on a WrongPlanet forum?), and he'd written a story about somebody doing approximately what he did (the lead character was named "Natas", which is Satan spelled backwards...not exactly subtle). Alex went on the radio and explained we were all a bunch of time bombs, and people had better start treating us a lot better or we'd rise up and kill everyone. Just kidding. Alex said aspies were quirky but non-violent in the extreme, which I certainly believe. I'd expect that, on the whole, we're more likely to implode than explode. Of course, reality often has nothing to do with the memes that sweep through the popular culture, so I don't think there's much point trumpeting how benign we are. As a practical matter, just shrug and carry on.

He was human. Let's just leave it at that. Aspie, NT or otherwise, a human being is fully capable of violence. He might have been a little more prone to violence, but it's still wrong to assume that AS was the cause. Anyone with the "right" motivation can do something like that.