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[quote=Anonymous]HI OP.  Good point and I am in same situation.  Lots of Aspies around me.  There are several pre-existing threads going on right now on this site about this issue.  All I know is the neighbor interviewed on 60 minutes last night said the mom said "Aspergers" (But, really, if you had a kid who was Bipolar or was schizophrenic and you were homeschooling them would you blurt that out to a neighbor?  OK, depends on your neighbor, but it might not be something the mom wanted to make concrete - especially to an indiscreet neighbor would would later get interviewed on TV about it).

Check out the other threads.  Don't jump to conclusions.  The media have botched the reporting on this from day one.  I read one report from the Hartford Courant saying they had a motive but I don't believe anything I am reading anymore.

But a lot could have gone on between age 18 and 20.  Someone on another thread said Aspergers/HSA/on the spectrum can evolve into schizophrenia.  Honestly, that's the first time I've ever heard of this and the Aspies I know could not be more gentle.  Quite the opposite.  But I not a psychiatrist. Check out the other threads.  One is under something like "Why isn't anyone saying schizophrenia?".  My guess is that he had untreated schizophrenia or was bipolar and fell out of the system as the author "I am Adam Lanza's Mother" described.  Fortunately, I've not encountered any violence with aspergers, but, as I said, am not an expert.  Perhaps the medical records in time will tell us.

What I can tell you is that this execution was extremely well-planned out and the Aspies I know (my own, so I can say it), can't organize their way out of a paper bag.  They could never have planned something like this horror.  Every day is an organizational struggle for them.  Just my thoughts.
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