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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meet stigma head-on. People on the spectrum are much more likely to be the [u]targets[/u] of harassment and violence than the other way around.

Or to put it another way, if everyone with ASD was a gun-crazed murderer there would be nobody left on the planet.

This is truly a tragedy on multiple levels for this family and their community.

But it is not proof of some kind of link between ASD or mental health challenges and the rates of gun deaths in the US.[/quote]

Every single kid who does a mass shooting is also medicated for things like anxiety, depression, etc.

I think the issue is the pharmaceutical drugs and side effects on young men in particular, that are being glossed over that are the true cause of these mass shootings.[/quote]

I can't even believe I'm saying this because I'm not at all a conspiracy theorist and I know that these drugs help many people-- but I do wonder if there are more harmful side effects than we are made aware of and that people who take them need much closer monitoring. [/quote]

I am not a scientist, lol. But i wonder if there is some additional side effect that makes the risk of psychotic episodes/aggression/suicide/self harm/depression (all listed by the drug companies as possible side effects to those drugs) amplified by the surge of testosterone that boys naturally get during that phase of puberty around the later teen years to early 20s.

So instead of self harm, suicide, depression, etc they end up with uncontrollable rage/violence bursts/psychosis towards others.

Because these kinds of kids are more likely to take these kinds of drugs, it makes it appear that it is the disorder causing the mass shootings, when in reality it is a side effect of the drugs.

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One possibility is that a kid who is being treated for depression is actually bipolar, but never had a prior manic episode.  In that case, a manic episode can come on suddenly and since the parents have never seen anything like it before, they don't know how to respond.[/quote]

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