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From Salon in March of 2009:
It is not politically correct to criticize the disabled.
But sometimes disability is mental illness. Dangerous and deadly mental illness, which resulted in the horror inside the walls of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012.
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the mind of Newtown killer Adam Lanza; he ‘was like a ghost’His mother spotted his precipitous withdrawal before he went on his rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School. ‘He didn’t understand why she wanted him to go out into...
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Adam Lanza was not wired correctly. His brain did not work the way it should. He was not a normal human being. He could not feel physical pain. He did not look people in the eye. He could not bring himself to communicate with others. He was "Autistic",...
- "i Live With A Son Who Is Mentally Ill. I Love My Son. But He Terrifies Me "
From Ace of Spades: Here's an excerpt but really, just read the whole thing. A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings...
- We Don't Know Much About This Shooting Yet, But ...
I think the following five paragraphs may tell us almost everything we need to know .... Lanza is believed to have suffered from a personality disorder and lived with his mother, said a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation.A law...
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When Autists Become Monsters
From Salon in March of 2009:
The monster inside my sonRead the entire essay HERE. Relate the contents of the essay to Adam Lanza, who according to the information to date, had a form of autism.
For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew.
On Feb. 14 I awaken to this headline: “Professor Beaten to Death by Autistic Son.”
I scan the story while standing, my coffee forgotten. Trudy Steuernagel, a faculty member in political science at Kent State, has been murdered and her 18-year-old son, Sky, has been arrested and charged with the crime, though he is profoundly disabled and can neither speak nor understand. Sky, who likes cartoons and chicken nuggets, apparently lost control and beat his mother into a coma. He was sitting in jail when she died.
This happens to be two days after my older son’s 21st birthday, which we marked behind two sets of locked steel doors. I’m exhausted and hopeless and vaguely hung over because Andrew, who has autism, also has evolved from sweet, dreamy boy to something like a golem: bitter, rampaging, full of rage. It happened no matter how fiercely I loved him or how many therapies I employed.
Now, reading about this Ohio mother, there is a moment of slithering nausea and panic followed immediately by a sense of guilty relief.
I am not alone.
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Andrew started life as a mostly typical child. But at 3 and a half he became remote and perseverative, sitting in a corner and staring at his own splayed hand. Eventually he was diagnosed with high-functioning autism, a label that seemed to explain everything from his calendar memory and social isolation to his normal IQ....
It is not politically correct to criticize the disabled.
But sometimes disability is mental illness. Dangerous and deadly mental illness, which resulted in the horror inside the walls of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012.
- Coy Boy: Colorado Court Rules “transgender” First-grader Has Right To Use Girls’ Bathroom
It's not a girl. It's not a boy. It's a Coy Boy. Where would a first grade boy even get the idea he wants to use the girl's bathroom? From CNN: A transgender first-grader who was born a boy but identifies as a girl has won the right...
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the mind of Newtown killer Adam Lanza; he ‘was like a ghost’His mother spotted his precipitous withdrawal before he went on his rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School. ‘He didn’t understand why she wanted him to go out into...
- Hurricane 1
Adam Lanza was not wired correctly. His brain did not work the way it should. He was not a normal human being. He could not feel physical pain. He did not look people in the eye. He could not bring himself to communicate with others. He was "Autistic",...
- "i Live With A Son Who Is Mentally Ill. I Love My Son. But He Terrifies Me "
From Ace of Spades: Here's an excerpt but really, just read the whole thing. A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings...
- We Don't Know Much About This Shooting Yet, But ...
I think the following five paragraphs may tell us almost everything we need to know .... Lanza is believed to have suffered from a personality disorder and lived with his mother, said a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation.A law...