Posted by SLS on December 18, 2012, at 12:53:38
In reply to Re: Adam Lanza, posted by hyperfocus on December 18, 2012, at 12:37:28
Hyperfocus,
I understand your perspective, and agree with you.
This thing is sad from whatever angle you look at it.
- Scott
> People are calling this kid evil and a psychopath and not to take anything from the incredible evil acts he did; but to me he is also a victim. I just wonder what combination of mental illness and circumstances drove him to this.
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> It sounds like he definitely had Asperger's but it's only a very small piece of the story. All autistic kids struggle with rage and some can be violent, but violence against family or innocent bystanders or weaker people isn't something that happens with Asperger's AFAIK -- in fact it's quite the opposite.
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> I mean I can't honestly say that I never had fantasies of getting revenge over the people in school who rejected and made my life miserable. But the people he shot weren't his peers. And his mother -- the person who loved him the most and who made him the center of her life? Was it some kind of psychotic break?
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> I'm just utterly and totally baffled by this. I grieve for a life that could have done a lot of good and helped a lot of people, in different circumstances.
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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