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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

These mass murdering school shooters are almost always either Infamy seekers or mentally ill.

Obviously, this killer was not an Infamy seeker (no past criminal record, no facebook profile, no Youtube, no homemade videos like the Columbine killers and Va Tech Killers)

I highly doubt he was mentally ill, either.

Asperger's is a social illness, and far from a mental illness. I know from experience, because I have it.

One of the many problems this kid probably had, is that he didn't act out and openly express himself. He repressed his emotions and bottled everything up. This leaves one feeling powerless and makes them like a bomb waiting to go off after long enough.

He also didn't try to make friends and connect with people. I remember when I moved to a new school in 9th grade, I'd eat my lunch standing up in the corner of the cafeteria. I didn't want to talk to people, didn't want to look at people, I was just withdrawn for 90% of the day.

A couple of the older football players took me under their wing and talked me into sitting down and eating with them. Eventually, you feel a lot better when you make friends and express yourself.

On top of that, I think the Lanza kid was probably stuck in a toxic situation at home.

People who try to impose their will and tell you how you should behave bring out the absolute worst in the personality of a person with Asperger's.

Adam Lanza's mom was a Doomsday Prepper and a gun-nut who believed the world economic structure was about to collapse. She stopped working her job, her Husband divorced her and ran away, her oldest son told police he hadn't been back home to visit her in two years ... a "normal" person would have probably slit their wrist if they had to put up with her.

I'm not trying to defend the sick and disgusting final deed of a 20-year-old ... but it is hard for a 20-year-old with autism to get away and escape from her, like her husband and his brother did. The family life was probably unraveling.

This Lanza probably repressed his rage and felt powerless. Finally he took his rage out on his mom and shot her in the head "multiple times" That was the first kill and the most personal one.

From there, He drove to his mothers old place of employment... a school 2 miles away.

I'm guessing someone who worked there was probably the other source of his rage. Probably the principle or a former boss of his mother.

After he took her out -- he no longer felt powerless and was drunk on rage and put on a demonstration.

When he heard sirens and saw first responders -- he probably had a brief moment of clarity and shot himself in the head.

I only watched coverage on Friday when the story first broke, but I didn't get the impression that anyone was blaming it on Asperger's per se, but there was speculation that if he had other unrelated mental condition(s), that the shyness brought about by Asperger's would make picking up on other indicators difficult.