ami
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I'm becoming more confound by the mother, NL's belief that the economy was going to "collapse" and that she had to arm herself with automatic weapons for that event. And years after her divorce, still complaining to anyone who would listen (this is how I'm assuming she ended up complaining to the landscaper) about her xh?
Put that together with an emotionally/psychologically/neurologically divergent son - whom she allegedly took target shooting...
Did NL instill in Adam Lanza the fear and paranoia that somehow they were at imminent risk, and need to defend themselves with automatic weapons?
Did NL's fear and paranoia about economic collapse and, apparently, anarchy (why else need automatic weapons to defend against the economy) spark in her psychologically challenged son a paranoia and fear?
But that doesn't answer the connection to the school....
I know my own "neuro-divergent' brother gets on kicks about things -- it can be the cell phone companies, or politics, or conspiracy theories - and it becomes his entire world. His thought paths are so convoluted that he may end up with bags of ice all over his body as he lays in the tub shivering... and when you find him there and try to work out why he's covered with ice packs he will explain his reasoning and it will twist and turn upon itself and involve the government, scientists, things that happened in the 1950's, etc., until he finally gets to the thing that sparked his paranoia which was that the tap water smelled funny when he took a drink earlier that day. No reasonable person could have made that leap - his mind doesn't work in a linear way.
So until LE reveals what they found that partially explains his state of mind, I don't think we can even draw lines between things - we are not mentally warped, so our lines will be straight and logical when the killer's lines will not be.
Put that together with an emotionally/psychologically/neurologically divergent son - whom she allegedly took target shooting...
Did NL instill in Adam Lanza the fear and paranoia that somehow they were at imminent risk, and need to defend themselves with automatic weapons?
Did NL's fear and paranoia about economic collapse and, apparently, anarchy (why else need automatic weapons to defend against the economy) spark in her psychologically challenged son a paranoia and fear?
But that doesn't answer the connection to the school....
I know my own "neuro-divergent' brother gets on kicks about things -- it can be the cell phone companies, or politics, or conspiracy theories - and it becomes his entire world. His thought paths are so convoluted that he may end up with bags of ice all over his body as he lays in the tub shivering... and when you find him there and try to work out why he's covered with ice packs he will explain his reasoning and it will twist and turn upon itself and involve the government, scientists, things that happened in the 1950's, etc., until he finally gets to the thing that sparked his paranoia which was that the tap water smelled funny when he took a drink earlier that day. No reasonable person could have made that leap - his mind doesn't work in a linear way.
So until LE reveals what they found that partially explains his state of mind, I don't think we can even draw lines between things - we are not mentally warped, so our lines will be straight and logical when the killer's lines will not be.