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I was wondering about this too and I noted that it changed from weekends with dad back to one week, one week when he got older. I wonder if it was more about mom needing the break than dad wanting him more often. I imagine he was an exhausting kid. Or maybe dad thought he needed the structure...

I agree. And possibly his siblings.

Well, I think she's saying they could've forced him because they paid for everything and he had no means of supporting himself. But honestly, I don't think anything about this was simple. Being a parent is hard sometimes with a mentally healthy kid. I can't imagine if my son was so disturbed...

Everyone knows someone who is overly sensitive. These people take something the rest of us would consider a small slight that rolls off our shoulders, or is barely even registered, and they turn it into a huge deal. I am not saying ER wasn't bullied in school and ignored by girls. He probably...

I had an awful experience when I let my cousin move in with me for a year. I learned a lot about mental illness/personality disorders during that time, most of it by Googling her behavior to try and figure out wth was wrong with her. Seriously, crash course into human psychology I hope to never...

He himself said he had a turtle and a lizard (iguana?) as a child, before his sister got the dog. He said neither lived more than a year. Not sure what their cause of death was. I'm only on page 28. I made my husband get take out for dinner, but sadly I still have these pesky domestic duties...

You're my new hero! :loveyou:

I have only been able to find the manifesto in one format, which does not work well with my Nook. It skips around wildly when I attempt to advance to the next page. Has anyone seen it in PDF or some other form that might work better for me? TIA

Salem made a media thread. It's the blogspot from the media thread. http://elliotrodger.blogspot.com/2014/04/lonely-in-santa-barbara.html#comment-form

Ugh. There are people...lots of them...on his blog calling ER a hero or saying they feel sorry for HIM and how HE was abused and misunderstood his whole life. Feeling scared for humanity right now.

I am also wondering if the timing of this grand exit of his didn't have a more mundane force driving it than ER would like the world to believe. He had stopped going to class. He didn't see the point of graduating just to embark on a mediocre career, and of course, no closer to having sex than...

Has anyone watched the show Parenthood? There is a preteen or young teen boy on that show with aspergers. So much of this thread has made me think of him. In the show (not sure how closely it mirrors real life) the parents seem indulgent of his behavior to me, but I believe it's because no...

Let me preface this by saying that I am NOT blaming his parents or anyone else for the murders and assaults committed by ER. I seriously refuse to play his game by blaming everyone else for HIS actions. I do wonder, though, if all of the material indulgence didn't serve to fan the flames of...

So the guns were purchased with $5000 pocket money sent to ER by his parents and grandparents. Was his entire lifestyle supported by his parents? Tuition? Rent? Insurance, clothes, food, etc? Did he have a job of any kind?

I am NOT a fan of firearms, but you are right. He also used his vehicle to run people down. There are lots of weapons to choose from if you are determined to kill.

I work in the engineering field, a field until recently almost exclusively dominated by males. I have had to deal with more than a few of these types, believe me. I feel like extreme people like ER will ALWAYS find someone to blame for their (real or perceived) shortcomings. Nothing is ever...

I am still coming to grips with a kindergarten teacher who admittedly threatens to rip a 6 year old apart. This has me so upset, that I am barely even registering the physical assault. I can only assume that any adult who growls at, and threatens, a small child this way has some seriously scary...

I actually have read the thread over the last 2 days, but didn't want to scroll back pages to see if this particular link had been posted. I've also read numerous news articles, interviews, watched videos made by Elliot, and read parts of his manifesto. I don't know that he was "obviously"...

Sorry if this has been posted, but have you seen this string of self-made videos he posted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CressilIo&feature=autoshare Maybe this guy was mentally ill, I don't know. But he was also clearly a self-absorbed a-hole and it's no wonder he didn't have friends...

Been trying to form an intelligent response to this case all day. Maybe tomorrow...:(