Here we go again--Asperger's linked with violence

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Watching Dr. Drew on Call tonight on HLN. With the recent shootings that happened at LAX this weekend, a forensic psychologist linked the shooter's actions again to Asperger's. They were also linking violent video games and social awkwardness to the shootings. When in the hell is the media going to get the message that violence <> ASD?

I'm trying to find a link online that say people believe he has Aspergers. After Newtown last year, I am prepared to deal with this kind of naysaying more than ever now.

Did he say that the shooter was diagnosed, or was he just speculating irresponsibly?

I've read that he was quiet, a loner, ate lunch alone, was bullied and there wasn't anyone close to him.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... z2jjlglWno

I still have never seen a definitive source saying Adam Lanza was on the spectrum

What's the difference? It grabs ratings, gains notoriety-- it's good for the show. Who cares if it ruins a few freaks' lives?? No one likes them anyway. It's not as if they're PEOPLE...

You know, it's really starting to get freaking scary with the way the media is portraying ASD. In fact, it is frighteningly similar to how Nazi Germany demonized the Jews. Also, another terrifying similarity is when the media started to show that people with ASD are better off dead. They may not say it outright, but the implications are obvious. For example, have any one of you ever seen a story going along the lines of "parent kills child with severe autistic disorder", and then sympathizing with said parent. Sure, if the child was autistic, they would say that the child was showing "increasingly violent behaviors" and that "the parent felt deeply threatened by the child". However, if you were to change the wording to "parent kills child", you would think that the parent was a murdering psychopath, no questions asked. In fact, if things go along the path that I think they're going, sooner or later children with ASD will be sent to the "happy farm" and then supposedly die of some disease. In truth they would be sent to a nice, pretty room, along with all the other disabled children, and promptly done away with. Now that you mention it, the Nazi's did that too, didn't they...

Whether you are willing to accept it or not; people on the spectrum do get violent, and without support could kill...

I was given CBT as a result of my outbursts and the poor fools would've better hoped there is a God if I'd got my hands on an actual weapon - when I was younger anyway!

Its common enough for people with ASD to lash out; often in a rather chilling fashion...

There are two sides to mental health: the Neurotic and the Psychotic...

Essentially: to much emotion and to little emotion...

Take a guess which we are; Good old Hans certainly considered us as having a "psychotic personality"

There are a number of interesting theories about "diverging species"...

And it is a main theme in much Sci-fi media...

Homo sapiens aspergensis INDEED!

Though I do believe the Taxonomy is more

Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Aspergensis) - If you can convince the powers that be to stick with it, while proving we are a sub-species of the modern hominid...

Otherwise you're going to need some serious cash and a mother-load of gene samples pre-historic and current...

Signs of overreactions here:
Major signs:Aspergers relation, video game relation
Minor signs: None
Hmm, I'd say that this is a case of an overreaction. I think stirring up some backlash to show this neurotypical his place.

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