Aspies For Freedom

Something tells me that it was wrong of my to assume that the guy was nazi, like the other students who shot their classmates and then themselves.

People like to distance themselves from the perpetrator of such atrocities by identifying characteristics within the individual that are unlike themselves and those around them. It’s a defence mechanism.

Yes, he was a loner,
Oh yes I know the type.
Not like us…
No, not like us at all.

He's not like me…so your safe…I could never do that.
He's not like you…so I'm safe.
Good we're both safe and sane.

I think if it came out that he had many autistic traits that would proof that aspies are often treated inappropriate.

"Aspies can be killers, but they're not any more likely to be."

That's something you just have to assume if you don't know any facts, I think environmental factors are the things that create such personalities capable of doing such things.

Apparently half of us are more "gay" than "downs". :p

Here is something to consider. I think most of us have been or maybe still get bullied and/or ostracised. Now if any group of people ought to feel a "right" to "strike back voilently" it would be AS/hfa's. I do see the great propensity for media to attribute every murder (it seems) with being autistic/aspergic or having those traits. I would be very suprised if 1/200th of the murderers in jail was on the spectrum. Yet this is the smount of autistic people in the population.

That's true to me too, but that is because of fear.

Aspies are apparently often accused of stalking, even when they didn't mean to do so.

The guy was crazy. Crazy people do crazy things for crazy reasons. We are not talking about an autistic person being autistic or doing autistic things. Crazy.

"You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience. You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people."

Yeah maybe he was rational.

The guy was a dickhead. He was a cold-blooded, remorseless killer. I believe he was as mad as a cut snake.
If you honestly believe he was in full possessions of his sensibilities, reasons and sanity and in the face of everything we have been told believe he was rational, and you want to believe he was just a rational but evil man...cool.
No worries. I will not argue. He was just a pissed off, evil, rational dickhead with a couple of guns, itchy trigger fingers and a lot of moving targets to kill? OK I'm fine with that.

Yeah I got bullied at home and at school. It was inevitable that I ended up in a situation where I eventually fought back. The first time I did this in a big way was beating shit out of my bullying father and then for the next 10 years or so had a very "short fuse" and used to fight at the drop of a hat. It did a few things. I became a lot more physically aware of my body in relating to fighting. I got back a lot of self-esteem and self-respect and felt like less of a victim. I have no compassion for those I scared shit out of or hurt in retaliation.
Of course now I am 36 I am getting a bit too old and slow to fight all the time and rarely get into physical confrontations. I also have the force of confidence behind my words that if someone bigger picks on me and I say "Right mate do you really want to sort this outside now or are you going to fuck off and leave me alone?" they normally do back off and go to easier prey. They can guess I would, and that in fact saves me from not only bullying but fighting or getting violent. It is weird that in bullies there is a "respect" for the ability to be able to respond physically...it is stupid and bizarre.

Well said. Dead right. I agree. And from the guy who reckons he can't have an intelligent conversation...go figure.

Maybe they'll bring religion into the debate...

No worry about the pen pushers. This is where they get there uneducated views from