We have a spiritual problem that no amount of meds can cure.
Disagree here, with one potential exception.
Disagreement — religious families also have kids with autism. Religion and morality don’t prevent it or cure it.
And there aren’t meds for autism anyway.
One potential exception, and I’ll give you credit for this one: if this family of the killer had had a closeknit religious community, with the right people in leadership, MAYBE, just MAYBE, he would have had somewhere to go to confess his horrible thoughts and feelings, and maybe someone could have guided him.
He definitely could have had a girlfriend. There are plenty of teen or twenty something girls with special needs who also don’t know how to relate to others. The two could have learned together. If only his family could have guided him to a social group for teens with autism, maybe a summer camp, when he was in his teens. Things could have turned out differently.
(Beg pardon if they did try that - I did not read the whole manifesto)
Reading the thread I'd wondered about that. Is the diagnosis clear enough that it is rarely misdiagnosed so that some with autism are put on the ADHD type drugs as kids?