Are Aspies more prone to being radicalised into terrorism?

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It is a mental disorder, mental illness is a bit inaccurate but it is still considered a mental disorder.

I wouldn't be surprised you would misinterpret that as overreacting as you are the best at that. I've been polite even when you get things wrong, something you're not very good at.
There you had your answer anyway. It's schizoids that do that. You thinking of joining a cult?

Please advise me where specifically, I have got something wrong Anomiel. If I have I will correct it.

If you don't feel that "You make it sound like there are terrorists desperate to get aspies (or anyone!) to join" is an overreaction then you are even more over-emotional than I believed. That is neither what I said or implied and I really don't get how you misinterpret my posts so badly, you are the only person who displays this type of reaction to my posts. Even Verdandi (who was in opposition to my views in that thread) disagreed with your strange interpretations in the cat thread recently.

Finally, you (again ) have clearly not read all my posts on this thread before blurting out such responses, nor appreciated/understood the intention behind my thread if that is your view. There is no point me discussing this any more with you as it's getting increasingly difficult to get either logic or analytical abilities from you.

And FYI, when I had my AS assessment, the clinician also tested me for psychological disorders and conditions and ruled them all out. I am safe in the knowledge therefore that I do not have any such disorder...I wonder how much you can say the same. Insult me all you like, sticks and stones and all that. You are just showing yourself up.

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I would correct you by being more explicit, in that it is not a mental disorder, it is a neurological disorder (but what I said about it not being a mental illness is still correct).

You can't make any blanket statements and be correct, but I would guess this would sum it up for most of us. I definitely don't think we should shy away from discussion. Discussion isn't going to flesh out the boogeyman, and we aren't "letting the terrorists win". The day this website exists to broadcast a politically correct veneer is the day it plummets into the inconsequential.

Exactly. I applaud you, additionally for saying succinctly what I have waffled on about to get across.

But that's just it, Asperger's is not mental at all, it's neurological, meaning that the brain is wired differently than what is considered normal, and as such it causes people to be different and to miss cues because the brain isn't wired to recognize the patterns that most people can. It can have mental side effects, but AS itself is neurological.

The best example I can give, is the temporary impairment when someone is drunk. When someone is drunk, they aren't sufforing from a mental illness, nor is it considered as such, they're sufforing from neurological damage as a result of the alcohol in their brain, this causes synapses to misfire, causing the impairment.

Well, with AS, some synapses don't fire at all, others fire too much, both of these cause impairments of some kind. When a synapse doesn't fire in a certain part of the brain, we aren't able to (for example) recognize social cues. But in other parts where the synapses are overstimulated, such as for the optic nerve, we have a reaction to light as if it's brighter than it should be.
These are all neurological, not mental by any degree.

Does the population of inmates at Gitmo have disproportionately high number of aspies?

I seriously doubt it.

I doubt we stand out one way or the other.

Apolitical mass murderers like Cho (the VT killer), the colorado shooter, the connecticut shooter, often do have aspie triaits. And even mass murderers who claim a poltical agenda, like Andre Brevik- and the Unabomber (strictly speaking he was serial killer and not mass murderer but in personality and motives he was much like spree killers -and had was not much like other serial killers) often have aspie like traits. But people who kill for political reasons with accomplices (like the bostom bombers) are usually very NT in personality. And both instigators and executors of terrorist acts always seemed to be very NT.

Aspies may get homocidal- but its in the name of their own demons, not because they are buing into some larger groups demons.

I think anyone who is carrying around a lot of anger and/or hate is probabl more prone to be radicalized to the point of terrorism.

Autistics do have a few more reasons to end up carrying around hate and simmering anger.

Radicalized?? Yeah, that could happen to me pretty easily. I am, actually, kind of a radical leftist anyway. I'm so far left, I have more in common with the right than the mainstream left.

Radicalized into terrorism?? Not so much. I have this stick-up-my-ass moral problem with killing people. Especially innocent bystanders.

It just seems that Aspies are made out to be criminals. I hope that doesn't become a stereotype.

It already has, that's the sad part of it all.
Despite our best efforts, there will always be people out there who demonize us because of nothing more than speculative theory about other people and the "why". They do so, on the sole basis that we have AS, therefore it is already a stereotype, and sadly, there will always be more than a handful who listen out of ignorance, fear, and hatred.

I don't think so..?