I was watching more TV the other day than is good for me and it struck me that there was a lot of glamorizing of shooting people and just plain violence on the tube and movies than I remember growing up. The media is an easy target to blame, but there seems to be a real glut of poor models for solving problems.

Tim dude your examination of autism is fatally flawed because it makes one assumption. Your logic assumes Cho Seung-Hui’s autism experience is Typical. Anyone who knows autism at all understands that there is no typical presentation of autism. Each autistic individual is like a light in the night sky different and unique. Your logic attempts to offer a standardized programmatic understanding of autism when none can ever exist.

I have made a most excellent map of my own autism experience and for me it is likely the most accurate reflection of my life long authism experience on earth. Tim my autism experience is unique to me no other autistic person will have exactly my presentation and responses to autism and life challenges.

If you are not autistic your ideas merely show what you think autism is like. If I look at Cho Seung-Hui and share my opinions, my ideas just give you insights on the parts of Cho Seung-Hui ’s autism experience I have limited insights and understandings about. Remember autism is a spectrum disorder as such there are many unique powerful presentations of the autism life experience of which mine and Cho Seung-Hui ’s are just two.

If your logic were right Tin we could pick any two planets from the solar system and base all our planetary science on what those two planets have to tell us. Likewise we could pick any two points of light in the night sky and based on what our studies tell us base all our understanding of cosmology on what those two points of like tell us. In both cases we would be ill served becausem we would be missing the majority of the science behind what makes the universe tick.

Likewise if we looked at your picture of autism and even added my own we would still be getting only a tiny almost useless slice of the total autism spectrum experience. Autism is bigger than any one man or any two autistic men. The autism spectrum life experience is far too vast to fit on all the paper ever made. My autism experience can offer insights and thats why I share it but, speculation on what made Cho Seung-Hui do what he did is something only he knew. The only source of why any autistic person does anything is that particular autistic person themselves.

Tim when you dare think ideas and theory you offer explain something vast complex and personal as autism you fool only yourself. Tim more importantly you do an almost criminal dis-service to all of us autistics and those who care for us who are trying to build bridges of hope and understanding between the autistic and typical human worlds.

Tim thanks for your well meaning attempt to help but please understand your attempt fell far short of its mark sir.

So far all I have seen are more gun control laws that don’t address the underlying problem whatsoever.

You function horribly in all environments because you have impaired ability to make eye contact, or receive instructions from others because even you can’t acknowledge what you have been instructed or you have a poor sense of intuition and cannot comprehend what is said, like when the someone yells out an instruction that requires interpretation, your autistic mind only interprets it in a literal manner. You then get frustrated because you get yelled at you for not doing what’s told.

Life becomes miserable because you cannot do anything useful because you can’t do what’s asked of you.

You lose your sense of interaction with your environment. Unlike the introverted man who withdraws himself from the environment, you go even further to the point in which you isolate yourself from the world and rediscover your own one. You become a dreamer and you recreate that dream world inside your own mind.

While you occasionally need to function in the real world, it is the harsh unforgiving world that doesn’t treat you right, and one that you don’t have much time for.

Your boundaries and defense system become irrational as a result of that little dream world inside your mind. From your dream world point of view you think you have sound coping mechanisms for dealing with the real world, but really the thought mechanisms are irrational and completely insane.

“Society is failing me, they had better correct this, or they will pay the ultimate price”

These people have different coping mechanisms; They give others the opportunity to correct the problems they are causing, and while these people do get many opportunities and chances to correct their problem, if they don’t do whats required of them, implied, hinted, insinuated or no hint at all, they pay the price. That is the irrational thinking from the Aspergers condition.

I am joined with the belief that Apsergers and Autism were a problem for Cho. “You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today”, as signs of his irrational thinking.

There was no middle ground in his thought patterns, he emphasized a zero tolerance approach in an attempt to extract his demands from the society that was failing him. I feel some of this was relevant to his actions, and to consider the reason he wore sunglasses inside. If it was so that he could avoid eye contact then that act demonstrated a significant characteristic of autism.

I wonder if he had lived, coild he use this said syndrome as a defense, not insanity, but as a mitigating factor?

DEE