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01 Aug 2012, 12:03 am

I think people who say they feel bad about it just hope it doesn't happen to them.



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01 Aug 2012, 12:19 am

I didn't feel anything about this incident either. I just had thoughts about it and thought it was horrible and shame those people had to lose their lives. I can't imagine being there. I can't even imagine being the shooter.


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01 Aug 2012, 1:00 am

Toy_Soldier wrote:
goodiesguy wrote:
So in other words he's just what we called a "Troll"? He be trollin'


Can it be you don't know what a troll is ? Or do you just use the term because you are angry that he doesn't agree with your viewpoint ?

But here's one aspect you may not have considered. What will people reading yours and similiar comments posted here come away with in how they view Aspergers?

I don't know for sure, but my guess is that it won't be good.

You might condemn Joe Scarbouroughs comments, but I think comments like yours lend them credence. So in a way saying things like that makes you his supporter and will make things even harder for all Aspies in the coming years. People will view them with even more mistrust then they do now. Even fewer friends, even fewer jobs, even fewer positions of responsibility. Your managing to shoot yourself in the foot, heart, and head all at the same time. Impressive. :roll:

You can't take back words once they have been said, which is why it is important to choose them carefully in serious situations.

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You're right, Toy-Soldier.

Some people apparently call everyone who doesn't agree with them or who believes in personal responsibility a troll. And, I sure hope people who don't have Asperger's don't read these forums often. It'll give us all a bad reputation.

And, I can't see how anyone can't feel at least a tiny amount of empathy of a human tragedy.



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01 Aug 2012, 3:46 am

I think there are people who don't feel any empathy with the victims whether they've got AS or not, there will always be people that just don't care, it doesn't mean there's something wrong with them.

Personally, I don't understand why you'd want to watch a film where people are getting shot at and chased and tortured and killed etc, (note: I don't know specifics about the film I'm just assuming they're along these lines because of the type of movie it is) how can you find enjoyment in that? I don't get it, I really don't, but that's just me. There is a tiny part of me that thinks, "now how do you like it, now you've seen it for real?"

But there is an overwhelming part of me that feels sadness for the children and parents of the victims, perhaps because I am a parent of a 6 year old myself it's easy for me to imagine the grief. I do wonder what would possess a parent to take a 6 year old child to a midnight viewing of a PG13 film but that's beside the point, I don't feel less for them because they were stupid or had stupid parents.

If you don't empathise, I think you should keep it to yourself, as others have said, it's not necessary to tell people everything and people will think bad of you if you make those kind of comments, which might be quite damaging, not just to yourself but to others with AS in the long term.



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01 Aug 2012, 6:24 am

I think it's stupid to go cry about it and feel bad. Millions of people are dying of hunger, thousands are dying because a bullet made a hole in their head, another few millions die because of some war for oil and here we are crying our eyes out for 11 people. Sure it's sad and i rather not have it happen but the whole sad people cliche, you HAVE to be sad about it or else you get painted off as a monster



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01 Aug 2012, 9:24 am

goodiesguy wrote:
You know what happened with that dude shooting people in the cinema during Batman.

I've got Aspergers and I honestly don't care and feel no saddness towards any of it. I'm not a horrible person though. I have no feeling and really don't give a f**k unless it happends to me or is something to do with my disability. I don't know why, but it seems it's like this with everything. I want to feel bad, but I just don't.

This is a long thread, so I don't know if anyone's asked this, but what was your first reaction?

I ask this because there's a possibility it's a reaction to the non-stop media coverage. The overkill gets overwhelming for NTs, who I hear saying they are "sick of hearing about it" and are not considered evil for saying so.

Even if your initial reaction was "So what?" or some other such thing, maybe the newscast broke into a favorite or particularly interesting activity?

I think I need more details.

On a related point, chances are that at least one person in the theater has ASD--in fact, Batman, midnight showing--it's pretty much impossible that not one person on the spectrum was in attendance.



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01 Aug 2012, 11:03 am

I feel the same way. I have been somewhat amused by the reactions certain people have had to it, mostly as they seemed so random initially. People die every day. It reminds me of 9/11, which had an even greater effect. I never predicted that people still wouldn't be over it 10+ years later.