Asperger’s certainly didn’t help his cause, either.
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All of these mass murderers were socially inept: Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Columbine, the Colorado movie theater, and UCSB. Many others, as well.
Some kids are weak at math. Some kids are weak at social skills. If a kid has weak math skills, he gets a tutor or, at worst, bad grades. If he has weak social skills, he gets bullied, ostracized, mocked, and maybe beaten up if he’s a boy or talked about ruinously behind her back if she’s a girl.
Obviously weak social skills are not the only factor here. But they are common to the above mass murders. That is not a coincidence. I honestly think that if society treated the socially inept less poorly, none of those crimes would’ve happened.
As long as we continue to act like this as a society, these crimes will continue.[/quote]
yes. it’s not just being socially inept, but being extremely disturbed by one’s social ineptness. there are some socially inept kids who aren’t profoundly disturbed by it…and some who are.
and yet, how else can a society be but respond to ineptness with disdain? that’s how we learn from one another. we can’t train people to react to obnoxious people by being accepting of obnoxious behavior. they’re ostracized because they repulse people in one way or another. they are being unfit, and the reaction is a social attempt to redirect. perhaps unconscious, but that’s the purpose of the reaction. but it doesn’twork. some are so inept they don’t learn.
like the part where he’s discussing being a virgin with the black kid, Chance, who comes over to visit one of his roommates. he tells the black kid he does not beleive he slept witha white girl, the others (correctly) laugh at him, he goes in his room, cries, and calls his mom.
kind of the picture of social ineptitude.
but what could those roommates have done? I suppose they couldve felt pity on him, led him along, been kinder.
kind of liek the way the electronics store coworkers treated steve carell int he 40 year old virgin…
