“Ultimately, it won’t matter what “disorder” Adam Lanza had, since ‘having something’ can’t be shown to be the reason he committed one of the worst crimes in our nation’s history,” writes a Paula Durbin-Westby, a parent who is herself on the
spectrum. Emily Willingham, whose 11-year-old son has Asperger’s, emphasizes:
Planned, social violence is not a feature of autism.