What are your views on people with asperger's after the newtown ct shooting?

[H311H0UND]

I prefer answers from people who don't have aspergers

[Cjmjm2]

Adam did not have Aspergers. His family already told the media that he did not have it and there is more evidence that he had a personality disorder and not a pervasive development disorder. Plus if he had Aspergers it would have gone against a great majority of the symptoms to be able to do something like he did

[velocity girl]

the majority of crimes, violent, white collar, theft etc are committed by men. s

hould we take preemptive action against men, since they are the group most likely to commit crime? i assume you, as a guy, or a girl who knows at least one guy, will say no.

aspergers does not pre dispose anyone to murder, whatever you may think, or choose to believe. though many people with aspergers will hit out- verbally or even with fists against their family, or perhaps teachers, that is a world away from coldly shooting 20 children and 6 teachers dead, and leaving a load more with physical and emotional wounds. im sure youve had fights with brothers, friends, sisters. people with autism find life incredibly hard. if you were on fire or being tortured your reaction would be to cream out and hit those doing it- thats how autism can be described, like being on fire, or toture. the fact that there is not a long, sorry string of autstics who have committed mass murders demonstrates that theya re not a risk.

to think that people with aspergers pose a danger to the public is reductio ad absurdum- taking an instance and reducing it to an illogical conclusion. how many people are shot each day across america?? around the world? psychologists corrolate eveidence on violent crime- people with aspergers do not figure high in the stats- drink, drugs and poverty do.

he could well have had aspergers and a personality disorder- autism is a neurological disorder, personality disorders are of the mind. noone will ever know, as he's dead so cant be assessed now (its possible he could have been assessed for aspergers and that it was missed. its virtually impossible for someone to be diagnosed with it, when they dont- the only way its missed in someone is when brief tests are given, which happens frequently. full tests are extremely rigorous, and consider chldhood development, life long medical history (inc physical) and test a range of cognitive processes, such as working memory etc, which culmnativly are near impossible to fake).

trhoughout history, many of the greatest achievements, from da vinci to steve jobs, have been thanks to people with aspergers. you use facebook? do you think mark zuckerberg should be locked up 'just in case' he's a danger?

as a group, people with aspergers are varied, but often brilliant. the world would be a sorry place without them (cept maybe fb, ha ha, which drives me nuts). they have changed and improved it more than any other single group. one person who may have had it and committed an atrocity should not reflect on them any more than it should make one think less of men because he was a man, or be more chary of people from CT because thats where he grew up, or look askance at americans, because it happened in america.

perspective is pretty important.