Having dated an academic with high functioning Aspergers

No, I am not the autism troll but it is patently clear to anyone who has had a relationship with an Aspie that BK has it. My former boyfriend was (and is) an academic who is completely consumed by his area of study AKA ‘special interest’. BK has all the physical traits of Aspergers - the staring, the bug eyed gaze, etc. Not to mention an inability to connect with others.

He looks like Adam Lanza. Obviously not all people with Aspergers are homicidal but this one definitely is.

Is it Asperger's or antisocial personality disorder? I don't know why everyone wants people to be autistic. A lot of neurological, mood and personality disorders show similar symptoms. That's why diagnosis is controversial and everyone wants to label people with everything.

Thank you, Dr. Joyce Brothers, for your timely professional assessment!

Now can they park in handicap spots?

Or, here's a novel idea, it's garden variety psychopathy which is a component of APD and common with these cases.

Just a thought.

Here. Knock yourself out, OP:

There's this weird obsession with making autistic people these extraordinarily humans who can use their superpower for great good or evil. It's really annoying and dishonest. The reality is they are no different than most people in that most of them are average and having the autism diagnosis makes them struggle far more than those without. Most have intellectual, motor or communication disabilities too.

Now a psychopathic person with obsessive compulsive tendencies, antisocial personality and poor impulse control. I can see how on the surface that can resemble autism but it's really not the same thing. Most autistic people lack much interest in socializing or controlling others. Antisocial personalities are often sadistic and defiant, they see other human beings as tools. Most autistic people just rather be alone doing their hobbies.

I’m embarrassed to admit it but I thought he looked kind of hot in the orange jumpsuit today.

Is OP the poster who is obsessed with autistic people being evil.

A Bryan Kohberger was also identified online as a psychology student in 2018 at Northampton Community College in Albrightsville, where he participated in “raising awareness of hidden disability” and was a part of Psi Beta.

Aspergers is considered a hidden disability. It *will* come out during the trial.

OP, your. Writing skills. Are, atrocious.

MY anecdotal experience permits ME to diagnose the Idaho Killer. Who has not been tried yet and therefore is still a suspect and not "THE killer" (although I know better) and whose reported personality and behavioral changes do not fit with my needy and irrelevant opinion, which of course is what matters most here. So acknowledge my pain first, agree that intellectuals must be crazy and weird, and try not to notice that I am the kind of person who dates someone who no sane person would consider, but I'm fat so naturally I chased him.

And please note that I do not have enough education myself to know that "high functioning" suggests he also has an substance use problem, and do not know the phrase requires a hyphen to remove unacceptable ambiguity in my diagnostic sharing.

And just like that, fellas, *bam* me, r14 AND r13 are engaged!

We’re a thruple!!

R8 you should be embarrassed. You obviously have zero taste and are beyond desperate.

Simply done with autistic men being given passes or made out to be something extraordinary. Awkward, lacking boundaries, rage filled "aspie" men are all over this country. Check an incel forum, they're there too. I don't alter my opinions on their actions based on this high functioning autism diagnosis.

OP seems to want to demonize those with autism and I love they have to include "I'm not the troll." There's no evidence this murderer even has autism. Being a misanthropic sadistic sociopath has nothing to do with autism. I'm sick of everyone getting called autistic or borderline or a sex abuse victim like it's sexy. Fucked up people exist for many reasons but unless we have an official diagnosis, we can only speculate not put labels.

You're insane R14 and not the in possession of the keen intellect that you think you have.

Obviously you are ugly and alone too.

From Reddit - the account has been verified as a classmate of Kothberger's

I knew Bryan in Intermediate School

I knew Bryan at Pleasant Valley Intermediate School. He was overweight when we were short term friends. He was bullied a lot and socially awkward. He also had anger issues. I definitely got the impression that he is potentially on the Autism spectrum (I am an Aspie myself so I know it when I see it). Our friendship ended after he got in a physical fight with me. He lost weight going into high school (had to be close to 100 lbs of weight loss), hence why he looks older. He frequented a boxing gym during his weight loss. Friends from high school say he became more aggressive after losing weight. He had trouble making friends when we were were acquainted. Iirc, his mom is/was a school staff member. She was VERY sweet. I really hope she's innocent in all this as she was very nice to me and many other PV students. Feel free to ask me any questions, but I don't know much beyond this. Edit: I did want to add that he did exhibit symptoms of bipolar disorder, so keep an eye out it anything comes out about that. I am very certain he has some sort of mental illness.

Just about everyone in my workplace between the ages of 25 - 45 identify themselves as 'an Aspie' or 'autistic'. Not only themselves, but their spouses and their children. Everyone of them - and they share stories at the workplace.

I'm also on the hiring committe for my department, and when we do interviews for candidates, the question "Tell us something about yourself that we don't know from your resume ?" always comes into play. Nine out of ten times, if the applicant is under 45, the answer will proudly be "I'm an Aspie". To which everyone 45 and under around the table doing the interview responds, "So am I !" So the candidate now has 'a connection' and doesn't feel 'different'...and of course gets hired whether they are best qualified or not (usually 'not'). All Aspies have to stick together, I guess.

I think people use autism as an excuse. Just like they use anxiety and bipolar. An excuse for being defeatist, self-indulgent, unmotivated and rude. Always going to their diagnosis to justify bad behavior. Regardless, people don't care for you if you don't make efforts to be a decent person regardless of a disability. If you are high functioning, there is not much of an excuse due to understanding right from wrong. They were diagnosing everyone so liberally in the 90s and 2000s.

OP is the freak who makes these bitter irrational threads about his ex with autism. He attempts to link everything to autism.

[quote] I think people use autism as an excuse. Just like they use anxiety and bipolar. An excuse for being defeatist, self-indulgent, unmotivated and rude.

You’re an idiot.

[quote] From Reddit - the account has been verified as a classmate of Kothberger's

How?

R25 How? You want to infantilize every adult? You think everyone who has a disability is an overgrown child who doesn't know right from wrong? I know people with these conditions who have worked hard to live a life of normalcy and made steps to improvement through effort. It's not easy but life isn't. The point of raising awareness is so people learn that neurodivergency and disabilities are people just like them and many don't want to be treated any different. They can absolutely be spoiled brats, lazy bums, intentionally rude and entitled too. Once you meet many, you can tell the difference. American culture is all about avoiding responsibility and blaming others. So it's everyone.

There are other disorders that could cause similar behavior and social affect. Somebody with Alexithymia + OCD could seem autistic. Autism isn't the only thing that explains socially bizarre people. You're just speculating, you must be the guy who comes into every thread to remind us all that the autistic are monsters and you've had enough with their excuses. Are you dealing with something in your family? Is something going on? What is going on with you that you're so so fixated on this, you must be slighted by autistic people on a daily basis.

[quote]I think people use autism as an excuse. Just like they use anxiety and bipolar. An excuse for being defeatist, self-indulgent, unmotivated and rude. Always going to their diagnosis to justify bad behavior. Regardless, people don't care for you if you don't make efforts to be a decent person regardless of a disability. If you are high functioning, there is not much of an excuse due to understanding right from wrong. They were diagnosing everyone so liberally in the 90s and 2000s.

You're exactly right.

R29 is talking to himself.

[quote] You want to infantilize every adult? You think everyone who has a disability is an overgrown child who doesn't know right from wrong?

Nice straw man.

R31 If they are intellectually disabled then yes, I would not hold them accountable. But if they are high-functioning, can learn, think critically, get themselves up in the morning and work and go to school. Then I would see them as an autonomous individual who can make their own decisions. I think that's the more humanist route.

According to people on here. People with autism who aren't intellectually disabled, can go to college, drive and work a job, should not be held accountable for their bad behavior. I bet it's the same crowd that thinks anyone under 25 should not be held accountable because the brain is not fully developed. This is not helping anybody as much you think it is.

Aspies are alien or alien-human hybrids according to my sources.

R33 nobody said anything like that at all

Controversial opinion alert:

I live in Germany and often come across so many people on the spectrum, I joke, “No wonder ‘Asperger’s is a German name!’”

Coincidentally, so is Kohberger!

This woman went on a date with him. Maybe the trauma made her get fat and dye her hair.

Why do autistic people on DL And other forums get so defensive when the truth is revealed? It’s like they really believe they are flawless humans with special abilities. It’s delusion at its finest .

The spectrum troll has enlightened us.

R41, is a butt hurt autistic idiot . You people are insufferable

If you doubt there is something seriously off on these people, just know that majority of trans are autistic.

r43 I make a point not to mock or berate people with disabilities because I'm not an evil person.

Maybe he's just a psychopath, OP. HD fits that criteria too. I think he's enjoying his infamy.

R44, I read some of your posts . You are quite the troll and hateful

High functioning autistics can’t understand normal people and society , that is a huge symptom of the condition. They live in fantasy land and will rage at those who don’t respond like they expected. These aspies usually secretly find a fault with everyone, especially those who reject their crazy annoying ways . Brian did this out of revenge against the women who rejected him. They are dangerous people! They are not fully human

r46 Did any of them involving mocking and berating people with disabilities. By all means, share with the class, since you have so much to say about most posts on DL.

[quote] Somebody with Alexithymia + OCD could seem autistic.

This is news to me. Could you break down how this confusion could happen? And how you’d clinically differentiate and make a diagnosis one way or the other?

Reminder: autism trolls on DL give traits that the individual they knew had and are often way off base:

[quote] the staring, the bug eyed gaze

🤔 Not in any definition of autism.

[Quote] I am not the autism troll

You are now.

Guess who commits murders every day: neurotypical people

R52 that made me laugh too. I had to teach myself across decades to make eye contact with people for more than one second. It still makes me horribly uncomfortable. The only times I've ever stared at someone are in disbelief when they do something so staggeringly cruel or nasty or gross that I can't believe it's happening in front of my own eyeballs, which is how most people react in the same scenario.

Autistics are the bane of our existence

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