Robert Durst & Autism

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I was very shocked and surprised, that Robert Durst had a form of Autism. I mean a guy who is a socio psychopath, and admitted in an interview that he was diagnosed with having Asperger's. I find this completely misleading, and falsely inaccurate on a guy who murdered three people in the last three decades. what's your thoughts, and opinions on it?
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Its certainly possible to have more than one dysfunction at the same time, and he pretty clearly is very screwed up. I don't know whether I'd take anything he said too seriously - just because he claims to have been diagnosed with this or that doesn't mean he has. And even if AS is one of his issues, that would not explain or excuse his bizarre and criminal behavior. I'm really sick and tired of the US media trying to attach AS to all sorts of violent psychopaths, especially since AS doesn't officially exist as a diagnosis anymore.

Geez, the very last thing we Aspies need is a psychopathic probable serial killer claiming to be one of us. I don't know if we've been able to live down Adam Lanza, yet.
And even if he is an Aspie, that hardly means that he doesn't have something else that is seriously wrong with him.

He was diagnosed by a psych hired by the defense lawyers and it got acquitted way back. I have not heard it mentioned in the current news coverage.

If Durst is indeed an Aspie, then the stereotyping of people is just going to get worse for us Aspies.

Well, he's only a convicted murder. He hasn't been proven guilty

I watched a bit on him on Dr. Drew, who from my view did a rather poor job of coverage. When Durst made his confession, Dr. Drew kept saying that he was responding to "internal stimuli" (voices in his head), when it is probably much more likely he was just rehearsing/replaying conversations in his head. Just because some is talking to himself doesn't mean they are hearing voices or psychotic, or even if they are psychotic, that doesn't mean they are actually hearing voices in their head (seriously, shame on dr. drew). When I watched the confession I got a sense that there were two possibilites:

1) I'm reenacting this conversation thinking about what the audience is thinking
2) I'm reenacting this conversation adding in what I was thinking at the time.
3) I'm responding to voices (least likely possibility)

There's a lot going on with Durst. He's old. He might have dementia. He might have schizophrenia. He might just be a psychopath.

Watched CBS' 48 Hours story on him last night. I can't say what he's actually guilty of, but he does by all appearances seem to have AS, and as his defense attorney said, he is very intelligent, but extremely naive.

There's a particular piece of Gotcha journalism going on here, where they secretly recorded him in the bathroom, muttering to himself, and he says "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course." Naturally, prosecutors and the documentary producer who made the recording insist that its a confession, but that's not what I heard when I listened to it. As a person who talks to myself constantly, What I hear is an irritated, sarcastic remark: "Oh, WHAT did I do? Killed 'em all, of course. SuUuUUUurRe I did - @$$holes,"

Its the b*tching of a guy who's sick of constant insinuation and accusation. I'm not saying that he's innocent, I don't know about that, but this recording is definitely NOT a confession of any kind. I'd like to hear the entire recording, instead of the five seconds they're using to crucify him with.

However it was made, its not proof of a confession, that's entirely a matter of interpretation. There's more compelling evidence than the recording that they may nail him with, like envelope with his handwriting and consistent misspelling.

Though prosecutors were insisting that his entire reason for appearing in the HBO documentaries was to "control the story," I doubt that, too. I don't think he has the Executive Function to "mastermind" anything. If he's guilty, he's been making it up as he went. He may be smart enough to try and cover his tracks, but I doubt he's much of a planner. They picked him up in New Orleans, claiming he was about to flee the country, because he had been withdrawing thousands of dollars a day from his account for a month. Putting all that financial activity on the grid is not a smart thing to do if you're trying to sneak away. It is, however, the sort of thing someone suffering from high anxiety would do - miss an opportunity to get away, by over-preparing and running out the clock.