Doomsday Preppers

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

A stay-at-home Doomsday Prepper mom who lives by herself with an Asperger kid ...

That seriously had to be the single greatest Reality TV show idea of all-time.

Unfortunately, we have probably just lost the only mother/son combo in the entire world that fits that comically toxic criteria.

Even though the final act of the Lanza boy was unbelievably deranged, disgusting, and low (I mean nothing is lower!) ... I would have to set the line of the odds of 'undiagnosed mental illness' at:

Lanza's Mom: -400

Lanza Boy: +250

Odds they both were: +300

Have you seen the "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother" piece circulating the intertoobs? Written by a blogger with a son with mental disorders of some sort. There might still be hope for the reality series:

http://gawker.com/5968818/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother

I actually found it pretty moving, but the backlash against the blogger has started up pretty hard.

I do really wish the media would stop harping on the Asperger's thing, as whatever other mental issues Adam Lanza had, being on the autism spectrum does not increase one's propensity for violence. People with autism are absolutely capable of feeling empathy; they have difficulties perceiving it in other people, but that doesn't mean they can't feel it once they do understand. As opposed to a sociopath, who is perfectly capable of reading other people's emotions and exploiting them for to own benefit, because he doesn't have the ability to empathize. He can perceive it, but he can't feel it.

And non-autistic people have difficulty perceiving what people with autism are experiencing, so it goes both ways. But either way, it doesn't lead to violence.