Can we talk, just for a second, about how many neurotypical people commit violent crime? Or, you know, people who don’t have a mental illness who do the same?
How about how many people who live with autism or who are otherwise non-neurotyical are not, in fact, psychopaths, sociopaths, or otherwise violent? And how all of those things are different things?
And can we maybe acknowledge that while Elliott Rodger clearly does have some things going on with his brain, that does not change the fact that he made his motives abundantly clear, or that there are entire communities of men who believe that punishing women for being autonomous is an acceptable mode of behavior.
Autism and mental illness are not the problem here.
Stop treating people with autism and mental illness like they are dangerous or less-than or somehow incapable of being humane and decent.
Stop ignoring rape culture and misogyny and giving fucking murderers the benefit of the doubt because those things happened to occur in the same space as autism or mental illness.
just a side note, there are a fuck ton of people out there in the world who are sociopathic and still manage to NOT KILL PEOPLE.
People who are homicidal commit homicide. They may or may not have other issues going on, but homicidal is definitely the big key.
Autistic people are no more likely to kill people than schizophrenic people OR COMPLETELY NORMAL HEALTHY PEOPLE.
In this instance it was a dude-bro with serious entitlement issues thinking that rejection was a legitimate reason for homicide, and having an entire community of supporters telling him that he is right.
Personally, all of those people supporting this guy on his youtube video are suspect in my book. Not for what this guy did today, but for what they are capable of doing tomorrow, or the next day. My ability to extend them a modicum of TRUST to NOT KILL WOMEN is really lacking right this minute.