Please?

[the_hunter]

Please don't make it be about the Aspergers. There are a lot of people out there with Aspergers, and we are EXACTLY as likely to go on a gun rampage as all you Neurotypicals. Actually probably less so.

Firstly we don't have the social skills, for the most part, to make enquiries about obtaining a hand gun, and secondly we're more likely having

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[flexor]

This whole gleeful shouting of "See? All MRAs are murderers! Burn them!" is literally making me sick to my stomach.

These days I think more and more often that War, Famine, Pestilence and Death are amateurs compared to Stupidity.

[stasia]

Yeah, I saw that and was similarly concerned. I wish they'd stop making this about "mental illness" at all. He was just a misogynistic, self-absorbed murderous asshole.

My partner's slightly Aspie, all his co-workers are (he's in software, everyone around him shows signs of Aspie-dom), I'm going into chemistry and many of my fellow students are ... Aspie-ish.

They'd NONE Of them even think of doing something like this. It's just not something that would occur to them.

Who DOES think like this is a sociopath.

Stasia