I read online where they said Cho was autistic since he was a child.
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From a fundie perspective where the bible is the top instance to explain the world, this makes sense (kind of, I guess). For anyone else who is based in reality, this explanation is fucked up.
I'm sorry texastig, I just can't imagine living in your paranoid little world full of spooks, ghosts, and goblins. That you can chock up the mental state of a young man that may have had autism, and most probably was schizophrenic, with your make-believe world makes you delusional. Either delusional or your an inhuman monster.
Sandman:
Will you people please stop trying to pass blame on to something else. Face it, Cho was a quiet person who didn't fit in well, he was branded a loner which negatively reinforced his lack of self-esteem, he reached a point of critical mass and then he killed 33 people. No demons, just cause and effect in human relationships.
Fuck off. That's just disgusting of you to say that. Yes, he was probably insane on some level. No, he does hot have demons, and no, autism doesn't make people violent.
szenah, I second your sentiments.relentlessly tormented for his inability to speak clearly.
Autism is a very terrible mental illness, that virtually isolates children from their surroundings. Maybe in the past it was considered demonic, but of course, it came from the same people who thought that the Earth was flat.
Anyone believing in the existence of demons is a retard.
Matilde: I have taught some high-functioning autistic boys who might give you a bit of an argument about the "terrible mental illness" part. The autism spectrum is huge. It runs from people who never learn how to talk all the way to intelligent, extremely functional people who just seem a little awkward in conversation. Look up "Temple Grandin" sometime and you'll see what I mean.
autism doesn't make people violent Well, i got punched really hard by an autistic teenager (low functioning)...but the poor kid was terrified, emergencies rooms can be quite scary for them. Anyway, it's true that, usually, they're not the kind of people who hurt others on purpose.
@ Irene Thank you.
I'm autistic. Have been my whole life. Guess that means I'm also demonically possessed and driven to murder. I think I'll start with texastig.
schoolmarm: I’m sorry if I upset youbut I do not believe I call you or any other autistic person a second class citizen. My own son is autistic, why would I think of him as being a second class citizen? I am upset with people who see autism as some sort of absolutely life ending disease with no hope in site. I’m not saying that it’s a great thing, or that it’s a bad thing, just that autism is part of who my son is and when I hear people say things like “autism is a terrible disease” it is in a way like calling my son a terrible thing.
Yes, because all mental illnesses are Satans work... The same Satan who is, supposedly, chained to a rock somewhere in the Earths mantle... Yea, it all adds up, especially when you ignore the pressures from all fronts that young people have to endure...
As someone who has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and Bipolar Type II, let me just say a few words here.
I read online, and you believe it immediately. To be autistic, he was rather communicative and eloquent. There are levels of authism, and maybe he suffered it in the past(I guessed the doctor wouldn´t tell us for professional decorum), but I think that it was not the problem he had and not the cause that triggered the tragedy. By the way, one of my old schoolmates has an autistic child too, who doesn´t speak. Maybe that´s why I think it´s something so sad and take that as paradigm.
Straight from the mouth man with a little brother with autism (and whose parents were told by thier priest that his autism was because of the sins of my father)
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