cannot remember where i read the guy was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and a personality disorder. Aspergers Syndrome is for a higher functioning individual with intelligence but no social skills. Autism higher spectrum - idiot savant - keep in mind Rain Man - Dustin Hoffman - great on facts but no able to function in society.
The gun was not the problem it was the issue of Asperger’s Syndrome - little is known about the disease recently added to the DSM classification - not enough people whom are trained to deal with the Aspergers Syndrome (Nonverbal Learning Disabilities) thus resulting in the youth being granted social security disability.
Note the classification of NonVerbal Learning Disabilities is a newer class of learning disabilities that the researchers are still trying to classify. Sue Thompson in Nonverbal Learning disabilities (NVLD clarifies the disorders of these type of learning disabilities). The problem is the children receive help to get through school, but as young adults they do not have any assistance because the colleges, technical schools do not have the resources to accommodate the disability. The diagnosis is made in elementary school and special education classes are part of the education - socialization skills but as yound adults isolated alone and some whom get jobs are fired repeatedly because of the social interactions needed in the workplace.
Please understand the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome is a diagnosis that is under the DSM classification of mental health disorders. But it is not a true mental health disorder - it is a neuropsychological, neurobiological one. Some people call it a disorder of children whom only recognize traditional roles, the child as an adult is lost in the world, because the world has advanced but this child as an adult does not know how to function in the real world.
Articles with Asperger’s Syndrome and autism in the first paragraph, were all over the afternoon/evening breaking news stories, yesterday. I knew what autism was; I had to research Asperger’s Syndrome, since I’d only heard it once before.
“Some people call it a disorder of children whom only recognize traditional roles, the child as an adult is lost in the world, because the world has advanced but this child as an adult does not know how to function in the real world.”
This sentence is quite amazing in terms of what we know about Adam Lanza and in terms of his slaughtering his younger victims.
From what I am reading, his mother withdrew him from High School and started home schooling for his Junior and Senior years. Apparently, things took a turn for the worse for Adam. I have noted similar age/puberty patterns with previous perps in the mass shooting events.
I would really like to see Adam Lanza’s Psych-evaluation. I am sure that will never happen!
Thanks for the post