I am a therapist that works with children and young adults with Asperger’s Syndrom as well as other diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum. It seems that you are very familiar with this as well. When they described this person’s behaviors, I immediately wondered about Aspergers...
I have come to believe that there is not an autism epidemic. Rather all those children who somehow got through school without a diagnosis are either just lucky to have found themselves a supportive spouse and workplace or experiencing some degree of failure. For people who haven’t learned to cope or found help, the prognosis is very bad. Life can be a living hell. Included in the failed are the individuals who are being labeled depressed, narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths. How can you not go crazy when it is hard to understand what is meant or wanted, when you can’t tell what other people know, need to know, or feel, when you take things literally and don’t understand abstract words and concepts, perseverate, have no empathy, misread social situations, like objects more than people, feel constantly put down, become paranoid. I do feel someone trapped with this kind of brain - without a proper diagnosis and treatment early on - is going to explode. Autism is described as “morbid self-absorption”. And don’t be fooled - many are loquacious when they feel like it. I am a big proponent of early diagnosis and treatment of children with learning and social problems for this reason. Not helping them can be dangerous to us all. I think that is the proper diagnosis for Cho. That his parents “keep to themselves” may indicate that one or both are one the spectrum as well but making it, sort of. They may not have thought their son was too quiet because they are. I do not believe they are monsters. We need better assessment tools as quickly as possible.
Well you are right just on the news Cho’s grandparents have indicated that he was diagnosed with autism when he came to America in the 1990’s. They indicated he did not talk to his mom or his aunt and he was ‘very cold’ which explains his aloofness.
I taught stage 1 violent SEBD autistic children for 2 years and it was a living nightmare. The abuse those kids used to level on me for just telling them to sit down for their lesson. I was bitten, kicked, hit, chairs thrown at me, head butted, scratched, and all we could do was restrain them. I taught elementary level and it drove me out of the teaching profession as I’ve never experienced kids like that before. I can understand now how Cho became that way if he didn’t receive any social skills training as a child then most autistic children cannot develop on their own as a normal child would through observation and repetition.
Anyway the article about him being autistic was found on the following website http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/7101526.html
Also he seems like a typical Christain terrorist as everyone keeps trying to find the muslim link somehow but he’s going on about Jesus on the cross and being crucified and Muslims don’t believe that Jesus died on the cross. They believe that he was taken up to God and God put another man to die on the cross and gave the resemblence of Jesus. This Cho had serious issues and his parents should have helped get him the treatment he needed as he was internalizing everything.