Tuesday 18 December 2012

No Link Between Autism and Mass Murder.

Agree absolutely with this article

There is no correlation between autism spectrum disorders and violent crime. Yet the media has latched onto the fact that Adam Lanza had aspergers as somehow important in attempting to explain why the killings occured.

The link above also refers to a recent blog post by Idaho blogger Liza Long, who writes as "Anarchist Soccer Mom." Long has a "mentally ill" son. She admits that he has never been diagnosed; autism has been suggested as a possibility, yet has not yet been diagnosed.

I refuse to post a link to Long's blog. If you want to search for it, feel free. But I refuse to promote her on this blog - aside from the criticism I am now giving.

Long labels her son as a potential killer by calling herself, and mother's like her, the "mothers" of a Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, of a James Holmes and Adam Lanza. Without having a qualified diagnosis she compares her 13 year old child to the aforementioned killers.

And to top it off she includes a photo of her poor son, betraying his right to anonymity.

A mother who means well?

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