Recent content by canusa

Ok folks, I am closing this chapter on my support and defense of those with ASD. I don't want to take away from what this thread is supposed to be about, MS.

As head of the national board of forensic medicine in Sweden, it’s Kristiansson’s job to try to figure out why people sometimes act in violent ways. She says most people who commit crimes do it for some kind of concrete reward -- money, for instance, or sex, or drugs. That’s...

I don't want to get into a special needs debate but the author of that article "received a BA in Literature from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1981." She is not a medical professional so her opinions shouldn't be taken as truth simply because...

I think bringing ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) into this is wrong. My husband is a doctor specializing in Autism research and someone showing tendencies does not put them on the spectrum. Either way, there is no direct link to Autism (Aspergers is a form of Autism) and violence.

Both MS's sister and her husband have recently changed their twitter and Instagram settings to be private. Can't blame them.