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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.

I didn’t read the whole thing. I stopped around age 12. But I was greatly affected by it as I read so many parallels with my son’s childhood that I felt compelled to share my thoughts.

When I heard that the Sandy hook shooter had been dx’ed with asperger’s, I didn’t even really care. He was so inhumanely sick that I didn’t care what diagnoses he had ever been given.

This one, because of the autobiography, affected me. I can see that autism WAS TRULY THE BASE OF HIS PROBLEMS. And I did not read much about the Sandy Hook killer, but I am willing to consider that his social disorder might have been an origin of causality in his rampage as well.

Because this Santa Barbara killer carefully described his life from his perspective, and because I know my son and know the discrepancies between his descriptions of his childhood and my own recollections, I see clearly how autism was the problem, not parental attention.

Could the parents have done things better, knowing how disaffected an unpopular, sensitive autistic child can become? Yes, but they didn’t realize it.

Should kids with autism be in regular high schools and middle schools? Probably not. It doesn’t do them or anyone any good. Unless they had their own safe classrooms, and both sets of kids were taught to be sensitive to the differences of the others.

Dad didn’t ‘reject’ him. Dad had him 50/50. Read it again.

The kid is severely disturbed.

Extreme jealousy! Over trivial stuff.

What is this expectation of being able to (bleep) women since puberty?

Where is his attempts to date a single woman in this document?

Where is there an actual example of any rejection by any concrete woman?

The teasing he complains very early on about sounds like the normal teasing by a young girl with an interest in him.

Then go look at his videos and photos. This kid lacked for nothing.

Something severely wrong with this brat.