It's less that there's a link between autism and inherently wanting to carry out a shooting than that there is a link between autism and the social treatment that also leads to many others not on the spectrum carrying out such attacks.
By default, most autistic individuals are highly moral, but if their autism by chance coincides with psychopathy in a condition known as autistic psychopathy, they may indeed simply choose to become a mass murderer but this would be an exceedingly rare choice in an autistic psychopath just as most standard psychopaths don't become serial killers. It requires so happening to develop the interest, coupled with lacking the empathy to prevent acting. I'll explain later.
Autistic individuals tend to have extremely narrow and intense interests. They often seek to become the best at something. Max Park has autism and now holds the vast majority of Rubik's Cube solving records due to his intense focus on it.
Unfortunately, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter was on the spectrum and his psychopathy allowed him to randomly choose mass murder as what he wanted to hone. He didn't suddenly snap and wasn't particularly emotionally compromised; he simply wanted to be a really efficient mass murderer by some freak chance and didn't have the empathy to change interests.
He was a series of bad coincidences and a big part of what led to people looking for a link though. Autistic psychopathy, however, is rare and doesn't guarantee an interest in murder anyway. The other autistic shooters generally want some sort of revenge just like most mass murderers rather than coincidentally choosing to be one or doing it due to some inherent interest common to autistic people.
Socially awkward people who feel really isolated and are perhaps bullied often become mass murderers. It just happens that autistic people fit this description rather well. That said, the link isn't to autism; it's to a certain type of social experience.
The sad part is that being mean to the special ed kid is mostly standard in most schools. As they grow up eventually theres just the understanding of they need to be pitied.
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It's less that there's a link between autism and inherently wanting to carry out a shooting than that there is a link between autism and the social treatment that also leads to many others not on the spectrum carrying out such attacks.
By default, most autistic individuals are highly moral, but if their autism by chance coincides with psychopathy in a condition known as autistic psychopathy, they may indeed simply choose to become a mass murderer but this would be an exceedingly rare choice in an autistic psychopath just as most standard psychopaths don't become serial killers. It requires so happening to develop the interest, coupled with lacking the empathy to prevent acting. I'll explain later.
Autistic individuals tend to have extremely narrow and intense interests. They often seek to become the best at something. Max Park has autism and now holds the vast majority of Rubik's Cube solving records due to his intense focus on it.
Unfortunately, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter was on the spectrum and his psychopathy allowed him to randomly choose mass murder as what he wanted to hone. He didn't suddenly snap and wasn't particularly emotionally compromised; he simply wanted to be a really efficient mass murderer by some freak chance and didn't have the empathy to change interests.
He was a series of bad coincidences and a big part of what led to people looking for a link though. Autistic psychopathy, however, is rare and doesn't guarantee an interest in murder anyway. The other autistic shooters generally want some sort of revenge just like most mass murderers rather than coincidentally choosing to be one or doing it due to some inherent interest common to autistic people.
Socially awkward people who feel really isolated and are perhaps bullied often become mass murderers. It just happens that autistic people fit this description rather well. That said, the link isn't to autism; it's to a certain type of social experience.
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The sad part is that being mean to the special ed kid is mostly standard in most schools. As they grow up eventually theres just the understanding of they need to be pitied.