This guy doesn’t deserve our attention as a cold blooded killer. He deserves our attention because of his “manifesto” which is a service he has done us to describe how he reached the point of cold blooded killer. And his autism played a huge part. With one child in 30 being somewhere on the autism spectrum, we had best drop our focus on the gun and put it where it belongs: a child’s lifetime of feeling outside of society can definitely cause deadly harm. We need to make sure these people are attached to society. It can be done.
At some point, a kid with Aspergers has to learn how to interact with their peers, how do you do this by removing them from exposure to them?
At some point, a kid with Aspergers has to learn how to interact with their peers, how do you do this by removing them from exposure to them?
At some point, a kid with Aspergers has to learn how to interact with their peers, how do you do this by removing them from exposure to them?
Problem is autistic boys have same intelligence and drives as normal boys. Problem is due to their sensory problems they cannot take information from environment and learn. Depending on degree of severity, these boys eventually will progress but at various levels and degrees. But the drive to have a girl does not disappear. Our pop culture does not diminish sex and sexuality. Many of these autistic boys will grow up and become violent. Each year scores of parents or caregivers are beaten to death, scores of young good looking female workers at half way homes are assaulted. Many of these autistic boys when they grow up to be men, cannot roam the streets, but rather institutionalized along with the mentally insane.
The movie Rainman with Dustin Hoffman does not portray austism accurately. Small percentate of austistic people become geniuses, but most are not. Significant numbers become violent.
Very interesting post. It’s so very hard to homeschool these children, hats off to you, and obviously movie producer Hollywood dad couldn’t have done it (wouldn’t have either). I have a daughter this way, who has expressed ideations like this boy’s, but given the testosterone differential, boys do the violent thing more than girls. I finally took her out of school as a senior, better late than never. These kids are treated so very very bad, and they don’t have the mental skills to be able to think “whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”, no, rather for some of them it’s whatever doesn’t kill me makes me want to kill you.
We have a spiritual problem that no amount of meds can cure.
Good job! That should be seen and read beyond FR.
Did you read the kid’s “manifesto?” It’s really an autobiography.
The kid’s family is using Asberger’s as an excuse for their failing him, and it’s disgusting. What’s the evidence that Elliot Rodger had Asberger’s or even any kind of learning disability? Read what he wrote.
As a child, he had a few friends and play dates — just not the “cool kid” friends he wanted. He went to both private school and public school, and finally graduated from a continuation high school, where he went because he was unhappy being the smallest, bullied kid in a big public high school.
If you read what he wrote (and believe it), it’s clear that this kid’s problem was that his dad, SO CONCERNED NOW, utterly abandoned him as a boy and a teen.
He had a happy childhood with birthday parties, travel, and an intact family.
When his parents divorced, his world collapsed. There are no happy memories recounted after that (except going to the premiere of the fourth “Star Wars” movie.)
His father remarried. The kid didn’t get along with his stepmother, and he was banished from his father’s house. Not just abandoned — rejected.
So he was raised by his mom and World of Warcraft, which he played to the exclusion of everything else.
He agonized about always being the shortest, slightest boy in his class. So where was his dad to teach him other ways to be a man besides being six foot two, which wasn’t possible for this kid? How about, take him to church? Or teach him to tear down a transmission?
My guess is the kid couldn’t even change a tire on the Beemer his identity was so wrapped up in. Thanks, Dad!
What does any of this have to do with Asberger’s? Or Hollywood liberals, or guns, for that matter?
This terrible crime is about a father abandoning his boy to be raised exclusively by women (his mom and teachers) and videogames.
Somebody needs to call this family — especially the father — on using genuine mental illness and learning disabilities to cover their a** for utterly failing their child.
What you said is correct...
It has sen reported here in CA. that this young man WAS in school
through high school for kids with learning disabilities of course in a public
school system (which he was in) lord only knows what the hell kind of
education that is!!!! His parents WERE financially able to get him a
private school if they could NOT homeschool!!!!!