Adam Lanza, Asperger's, and the Media Narrative on Autism and the Mentally Ill

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3. I agree, and this is why I posted this OP

Here is another one, from the NYTimes. Given that I have already seen that played in the past for my youngest son, a charming, but socially awkward young man whose main issue, like you, is sensory overload, I am really concerned about the fallout.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/opinion/dont-blame-autism-for-newtown.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

In the wake of coverage like this, I worry, in line with concerns raised by the author Susan Cain in her groundbreaking book on introverts, “Quiet”: will shy, socially inhibited students be looked at with increasing suspicion as potentially dangerous? Will a quiet, reserved, thoughtful child be pegged as having antisocial personality disorder? Will children with autism or mental illness be shunned even more than they already are?