What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic?

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Moreover, autism has been related to psychopathy and sociopathy, although it does not imply that even a significant percent of autistics have it.

Well it's true, but nevertheless autism is related to every other psychiatric illness and even to a whole bunch of other illnesses, so that doesn't say that much. The correlation to have both is not that high and not everyone who kills ppl is automatically a psychopath.

Boulevard press. I avoid it for a reason. I'm not going to pay for something that says trivial stuff like "celebrity X is now divorced with celebrity Y" or generalizes "all *insert type of people* are a possible danger to us!". The final nail in my personal boulevard press coffin was the statement "people who play "killergames" (<- idiotic term used for the shooter genre of games here in Germany) are most likely killers/mass murderers/public/school shooters".

I play them too but I never killed anybody.
So what?

I'm German, does that mean I'm a little Hitler/nazi who shoots everybody who admits he's jew?
No.

I'm most of my time at home and being busy with my obsession. Does that mean I am planning a rampage?
No.

According to media and stereotypes, I would always fit the stereotypes of a killer/mass murderer.

Here is an example. The example lists stereotypes I heard/read created by media concerning what makes you a mass murderer (warning: heavy usage of sarcasm):

• I am a human - Check.
• I am a withdrawn person and live my life mostly within my room - Check.
  => of course, this automatically means I am a sociopath, misanthrope, psychopath, etc. - Autocheck.
• I am male - Check.
• I am white - Check.
• I have the hair colour of some other random mass murderer in history - Check.
• I have short/mid/long hair - Check.
• I think a lot - Check.
• I was bullied a lot for a long time - Check.
• I am single - Check.
• I have just a few friends - Check.
• I am ending my teenage years - Check.
  => of course, if I end my teenage years, I will fit into the other criteria: 20-something year old male white guy who was bullied - Autocheck1.
  ==> of course, this automatically means if I grow out of that group, I'll hit the 30-something year olds - Autocheck2.
  ===> I'm older than that? No problem - Autocheck3.
• I am spending most of my time in front of the PC - Check.
• I am definitely not normal in behaviour (and am suspected to have AS and soon am working on a diagnosis) - Check (eventually double-check later).
• I have troubles socializing (in school) - Check.
  => of course, this automatically means I am considered a nerd/geek/failure/whatsoever - Autocheck.
• I make checklists - Check.
• I believe in a god (which, of course, automatically means I'm some religious terrorist ) - Check.
• I play (first person) shooters/"killergames" - Check.
• I'm a German - Check.
  => of course, this automatically means I am a (neo-)nazi and thus overly violent - BIG AUTOCHECK.
• I listen to *insert music genre here* - Check.
  => in case it's more than one (x), check x times - Autocheck*x.
• I actually check my checklist - Check.
• I now think check as a word looks and is funny - Check.

If I had to believe media stereotypes concerning what makes you a mass murderer, I would have been dead since long (either by suicide or by police) and there would be no living people on this planet anymore (so in that case, most likely suicide).

The best you can do is probably ignore such statements and move on with your life. Time usually makes people forget that, the killergame statement was forgotten too by now. It just happened that now the trend is: Everybody who is in the slightest mentally/socially disabled (apparently even if you are additionally physically disabled and in a wheelchair) runs in danger of being seen as such a person. After the next incident it will be people who listen to heavy metal music again or some other dumb "stereotype" (you can't really call that, it has no long-livity as stereotypes do in my opinion).

What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic?

...The toxicology report may be more important in understanding this case than the medical history, per any potential diagnosis of a disorder, unless he was prescribed a legal prescription for an issue like psychosis and was not taking the medication.

What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic?

This is one of the most interesting bits of speculation I've read about Adam Lanza:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/we-can-work-it-out/201212/was-adam-lanza-undiagnosed-schizophrenic

Has anyone come across anything about any outside resources being used by Nancy Lanza to help with Adam? Any support groups for parents of children with asperger's? Any therapists, care providers, counselors, or anything like that? I'm wondering if Nancy Lanza was living in denial and didn't want to acknowledge something more. I'm assuming it is probably much easier for a parent to tell people her child has a developmental disability than some other more stigmatizing diagnosis.

I hope the toxicology and police report shed some light on the situation. If I'm correct in guessing that there is more to Adam's known problems, I hope it will bring to the forefront the issue of people having a difficult time accepting and acknowledging behavior that is well outside of normal for fear of the stigma of mental illness. I am all in favor of de-stigmatizing mental illness so people will more readily acknowledge it in themselves and those close to them and seek help sooner (or at all).

Speaking of Adam’s mother. It has been reported that she owned 6 guns, including semi-automatic weapons with multiple high capacity magazines holding about 30 rounds each. When multiple assault weapons are kept at home, it raises the question as to whether the owner was riddled with paranoid and/or murderous urges of her own.

We also know that mom took her mentally disturbed son to the shooting range. While we don’t know what went on behind closed doors, we have to wonder if Adam was raised in a paranoid, rage-filled environment. Was he abused and/or taught violence? When a mother keeps six assault rifles in the same house as a child who is mentally ill, she is all but giving that child a license to kill. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that Adam was beyond enraged to have shot his mother in the face. Clearly, school officials need to be more vigilant and intervene in reporting families in need of assistance. In retrospect, one now sees that the writing was on the wall that Adam was destined to fall. The question is why nobody heard the call?