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This article is poorly written and even more poorly thought out. This guy is messed up.
But I'd like to read what this "silva" guy wrote...... That could be REALLY disturbingly messed up.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
Uh, so because
some criminals have
a few traits that could be linked to autism, "autistics are the perfect serial killers"? That may be the most ludicrous, nonsensical, paranoid leap of deductive reasoning I've ever seen outside of a Chick Tract. Guess what!?
Even more criminals are neurotypical or at the very least exhibit symptoms and behavior patterns common to neurotypicality! Oh no! How can we allow these people, so obviously predisposed towards lives of crime, with their irrationality and selfishness, to walk and live among us? It's a disaster waiting to happen, I tells ye.
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What makes this article even more bizarre is that its author appears to be saying that he himself has Asperger's Syndrome (I'm not 100% sure of this, since it's not very well written and the wording is convoluted in places). You'd think he'd know better than to buy into this tripe.
This article appears to be a rebuttal of Silva's theory, but it is too weakly written even to be coherent, much less convincing. Robert Moran should have decided what he meant to say before he wrote this.
Capability doesn't equate to a desire to.
Using that high IQ and logical mindset I could easily concoct some really cold and precise killing or something; but I wouldn't, no matter how badly I might've been treated in my life so far I have far too much empathy for life and pain (Not to mention total lack of motivation) to ever execute such a plan.
It seems to me that he's almost saying "Because Autistics are cold clean and logical outwardly they'd make good psychopaths". But you could use that excuse for almost anyone and anything ie. "Dwarves are likely to smash your kneecaps with a baseball bat - They're the perfect height afterall", that maybe but motivation?
Especially since the rest of the qualifications for "serial killer"--no conscience, penchant for cruelty, disregard for law--are definitely NOT on the Aspie skill list.
Hmm...rules... stupid rules...
I think disregard of law vary a bit.
NTs have committed murders. Shall we eradicate all the NTs?
That stuff Moran wrote was appauling, and J. Arturo Silva more so.
Well, people easily make misconceptions.
In 1950's people thought that radioactivity was healthy, so they made creams radioactive. There's no reason such people who start such ideas don't live today.
Well yeah, the '50s were half a century ago. Most people who were adults in the '50s are dead.
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Both my grandmas were adults in the fifties, and they're still alive. In fact, everybody who was born in the 1930s would have been young adults in the '50s, which would put them in their 70s now.
Those who used radioactive creams probably are, though... 
On the subject, as far as I am aware crime is indeed lower unless comorbids are involved, and where it does occur it is often due to obsessive interests (a friend of mine works for the probation service and they have a young man with AS who gets in trouble for sniffing women because he really, really loves to sniff things and to lick stuff).
Violence does seem to be big problem for some especially boys in late childhood and their teens (I didn't want to believe this but there are some very decent parent forums where parents describe some of these problems and they are not making this stuff up), although in many many cases it is linked with underlying problems such as epilepsy or a mood disorder.
I bet that there would be a greater number of crimes committed by NT's and people with other psychotic disorders than those with AS.
Naturally, but AS is the hot topic of the moment so after lauding it over the moon and celebrating it as the new hot thing to have ("Geek syndrome", "Einstein! Newton! You too could be like those geniuses!") the downfall is inevitable with today's fickle media
Some might think that would serve them, but in a such society none are safe.
I strongly suspect that there is no demonstrable link between autism and serial murder. There is a huge difference between being somewhat of a loner and awkward socially, and having a sociopathic personality.
just a thought, you think the curebies will soon start a campaign that pretty much tells college aged students that autistics are violent demons and then universites will deny them admittance to schools because of their diagnosis?
I doubt autism have no impact at all on the chance of serial killing, but that is just me who tries to be realistic. I have no idea if it could increase or decrease the chance.
They've studied this stuff. On autistic children.
If autistic people can figure out someone is being hurt, we care as much as anyone else does. That's what differentiates us from sociopaths, who can (if they're not autistic, anyway) tell they're doing awful things, but just don't care, they are totally selfish and amoral. It's totally different.
I wish I had the name of the study on hand, but it was done, and this crap that some researchers spew about us "lacking empathy" (and then they go on to say "just in the technical sense," but people still read this as lacking caring), just fuels the error that we're somehow the same as these awful people. When actually studied it's clear that autistic people are not lacking in the kind of empathy that you'd have to lack to be a serial killer. We can care just as deeply about people as anyone else.
As far as Kazinski goes, I don't know. I'm reluctant to do this diagnosis-at-a-distance stuff that people find so fashionable, especially as his brother is a friend of a friend and I've heard enough secondhand stories about how devastating everything was to his family, I don't want to rehash this crap in public out of respect for them. Remember that the people that people idly speculate about as an intellectual exercise are flesh-and-blood human beings, not the larger-than-life figures they become in the media, and there are private things about them that aren't necessarily generally known. After meeting his brother and hearing him speak out passionately about human rights I would feel very strange and intrusive indeed speculating in public about what label he fits or doesn't fit, and whether the label he does or doesn't fit is actually connected to the awful things he did. It's that empathy thing again we supposedly don't have. :-P
This story was just media mash. The writing is poor and he is writing for a very right wing and not very intelligent small segment of the population. His style is to mix and match a number of soundbite sentences together and he isn't payed to excite the braincells because his audience would rather be immersed in the feelings of rage, horror, glee and total egotism. This is only fit for recycled toilet paper. The piece is written with no integrity.