Unfortunately, “autism” is a catch-all for many different and varying degrees of personality disorders, from the very mild to the very serious.
Lanza looks more like a delusional schizophrenic to me.
There are many people who have multiple disorders, but if they have a basic, underlying disorder, the “mere” psychological disorder is often neglected. Long ago I worked with retarded adults (that’s what they were called in the 1970s) who had what were referred to as “psychotic overlays.” That is, their basic problem was something organic (retardation), but they had another problem on top of that.
The fact that these problems often emerged later (and gradually) in the individual’s life made them harder to detect, since while the people were already under treatment of one kind or another, it wasn’t for mental illness.
Obviously, a psychotic is a psychotic, but it is sometimes harder to distinguish this in the case of a person who is developmentally disabled, autistic, or one of the other conditions that seem to be organic problems.
However, when these people were all living peacefully in supervised cottages on the grounds of a remote mental hospital, that was much less of a problem. For one thing, they were subjected to much less stress, and for another, treatment for “episodes” was at hand, and they were much less likely to be able to injure others.
The cowardly animal is angry and mentally ill. Thinks his personal family cause is so bad that only nationwide attention could justify it.
Real tough guy. Kindergarten kids.
What a worthless piece of shit.
If he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory make like Ahnold in Terminator and walk into a police station and pick on grown ups with guns.
Reality is different than Hollywood.
Yup. We have grown the stupid spectrum and now have all the variegated puzzle piece ribbons thrown at us.
I have little doubt I am on the spectrum.
It’s BS. This twit might be on the official spectrum and get excuses for it, but truth is he’s probably just an evil ass.