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Old 12-19-2012, 11:37 AM   #61
Saya
 
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Originally Posted by Jonathan View Post
The aunt describes Nancy Lanza as a "doomsday prepper" stockpiling food and weaponry in case of apocalyptic societal breakdown. So on top of any mental issues Adam may have had, he's spent the last several years as a shut-in, in the exclusive care of a person suffering from paranoid delusions. Yeah, that is a healthy environment. Oh hey what are those http://www.maurilioamorim.com/wp-con...1/red-flag.jpg

It's a shame her emergency preparations didn't include a combination lock gun safe.
His aunt said that she said she liked to talk about preparations. I can't find a sources that says she also said she was stockpiling food. I have no seen a reliable source saying she was obsessive or fanatical about the end times. Since then everyone has been jumping on that as if that clearly means she's mentally unbalanced, when she is every much a victim as anyone else: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle6513676/ This is quickly turning into a blame the mother scenario when its really the only blemish on her.

We know that the parents had him as a priority when going through the divorce process and Nancy committed to taking care of him as long as he needed it: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle6490674/ If he did have autism, that sounds like pretty normal caring parent behavior.

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That doesn't sound like impulse control problems or inability to empathize with others?
You mean Objectivism, Spencerism/Social Darwinism, Libertarianism? Lots of assholes believe we shouldn't have any empathy and they're malicious and selfish about it. And they seem to be doing remarkably well in American politics.

Have you been around a person with autism? Do you know what the "lack of empathy" means? I used to babysit an autistic boy, when my cat died I was curled up on the couch really sad. He seemed oblivious to that and just asked me about how the cat died and (this was the dead of winter where we couldn't dig) how we were going to bury him. He wasn't malicious about it, just something about a pet dying he didn't fully understand, he never lost a pet yet. When his dog died, he understood a lot better. He was still a sweet boy who was very gentle with everyone around him.

Since Lanza didn't leave a note but went through the trouble of destroying his harddrive, it was probably planned out, and not an "impulse control" problem.
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