Aurora theatre killer might have been on the spectrum??

"As soon as I heard about this shooting, I knew who it was. I knew it was a young, white male, probably from an affluent neighborhood, disconnected from society. It happens time and time again. Most of it has to do with mental health; you have these people that are somewhere, I believe, on the autism scale. I don’t know if that’s the case here, but it happens more often than not. People that can walk around in society, they can function on college campuses—they can even excel on college campuses—but are socially disconnected." Words Joe Scarborough, MSNBC commentator, was noted to have said in the course of discussing the recent Aurora, Colorado, movie theatre shootings. He actually said that the shooter, James Holmes, now under custody might have been on the autism spectrum disorder. Not surprisingly, Joe is now the star of a petition making the online rounds on facebook and other social media networks demanding him to retract his statement. Now, it leaves me to ponder that if a person of his position lacks the basic curiousity and information on facts of autism, what can we expect from the rest of the regular Joes in our communities. He looks like a complete idiot now and hopefully will take back his ignorant public comment about what he saw as a potential connection between someone who'd planned his evil act for months and then calmly walking into a theatre full of innocent people including little Veronica and shooting them in an unbelievable act of cruelty and a person living with a disability like autism. Scarbourough not only needs to retract his less than intelligent remark, he also needs to apologize publicly to all families and individuals living with autism. These individuals are already looked at askance for the numerous behaviours such as flapping their hands, hopping, rocking back and forth, repetitively obsessing about stuff, walking around in circles or not being able to control the tone of their voices or emotions that they sometimes display in public. They certainly don't need the added status of having the strong potential to be cold-blooded murderers that's Holmes. In fact, I'll have those of you who are not quite so familiar with the disability know that individuals with autism know their boundaries, they loved their rules and consistensies and when given the right and early appropriate intervention, they make a lot nicer company than most of their typical counterparts. They are respectful, full of love for those they know and are capable of a whole lot than we really know. It is simply ridiculous to even draw a connection between the mental status of an attention seeking egomaniac like Holmes to individuals with autism for whom any attention seeking activities are rare just because they just don't get a whole lot of pleasure from making someone else happy by being on their best behaviour. I am now done on this topic and will not waste a minute of life pondering on idiotic words from equally idiotic ignoramuses like Scarborough