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In reply to the discussion: Adam Lanza’s Father, in First Public Comments, Says ‘You Can’t Get Any More Evil’ [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,951 posts)I have asbergers, and the day it was announced Adam was, I expected the shit to come down thick.
Now, let me lay some things down for people:
School can be complete Hell for Aspies, as neither schools nor teachers are often equipped or even allowed to deal with us. We get picked on a LOT. We often get accused of being lazy or dumb, despite high IQs. We are often the people everybody hates.
Now, that being said, few of us go ahead and shoot people, then again, few of us are taken to a gun range to shoot by a mom who has survivalist right wing fantasies. I wish I could feel sorrow for her, but it's hard considering she would have loved to shoot us liberals.
We cannot, will not, think like most people. Some of us are the Mark Zuckerbergs, Bill gates, Robin Williams and Dan Ackroyd and even Daryl Hannah that are able to take this and make it a positove. Some of us, like myself, are on disability, because despite busting our ass working, we get told "sorry you do not fit in here" which is a fine way of saying 'sorry, you kinda creep us out." We get accused of having no empathy, when in many cases, we feel things more intensely than others, because our brain is firing off like an engine that needs a tune up.
But we are NOT evil, and I think that perhaps maybe this evil Adam;'s dad saw was merely the result is his failure to deal with his son.