Al B Sure, please reconsider your outlook on life

[Kidlicious]

Anyway, Ben was the first person who came to mind when I saw that video.

Christians forgive.

[Dr Strangelove]

This. Yes, SBCC is a really great junior college as it is right on the beach and offers a large selection of classes but everyone in I.V. makes fun of the junior college kids who want to live in I.V. and pretend they're students at UCSB. How the hell did the guy spend four years going full time to junior college and yet still be in junior college? I'm going to guess he was a terrible student in addition to being a terrible person.

He was on Ritalin so he probably did have learning problems. I'm convinced though that mood disorders and personality disorders are commonly misdiagnosed as ADHD.

[Dinner]

Someone has said he at Aspergers/OCD, which would help to explain why he had so many social problems, but I haven't seen this in any of the official news reports.

[Dinner]

What makes you think that? No.

So... 50's then?

[regexcellent]

He was on Ritalin so he probably did have learning problems. I'm convinced though that mood disorders and personality disorders are commonly misdiagnosed as ADHD.

What is ADHD anyway? I am a little distrustful of psychiatrists...ADHD seems like something a shockingly large number of kids have and I'm not convinced it is a "real thing."

[Ben Kenobi]

So... 50's then?

I suggest taking a look at my profile.

[Ben Kenobi]

What is ADHD anyway? I am a little distrustful of psychiatrists...ADHD seems like something a shockingly large number of kids have and I'm not convinced it is a "real thing."

As a teacher, I'm not convinced it's anything more than an inability to sit still and be quiet for 5+ hours at school.

[MRT144]

What is ADHD anyway? I am a little distrustful of psychiatrists...ADHD seems like something a shockingly large number of kids have and I'm not convinced it is a "real thing."

Listen L Ron, if you watched me work for a full day you'd go "That dude has ADD" The H I dont have because im not a child.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

His Manifesto is very different from Breivik's. Breivik's was much more chilling and worth the time.

Basically - think of a Tucker Max approach to women - seeing them as disposable sex toys. Very much an atheist, very much secular liberal approach to life. Sex is a recreational activity and women are disposable. I don't find the manifesto particularly unique from the millions of people who hold these exact views...

Unlike the Catholic church, where women exist to make babies and having sex with them just for fun is forbidden

[Ben Kenobi]

Unlike the Catholic church, where women exist to make babies and having sex with them just for fun is forbidden

If this man didn't regard sex as a recreational activity and women as his sex toys, 6 people would be alive today.

[Aeson]

The mental state where mass murder can be justified internally as a valid response to rejection is at fault here. Change the source of the rejection (and there will always be rejection in life) and the results would likely be the same.

That's if you buy his shtick. Something isn't right about the way he talks. I don't mean something isn't right psychologically ... obviously something is wrong with him ... something isn't right from the view of viewing him as psychotic or a sociopath acting on the impulses he claims. Sounds like he's acting the part, badly, trying to make up a story to cover for something else. Maybe he's just an attention whore who wanted to go out with a bang.

[Lorizael]

What is ADHD anyway? I am a little distrustful of psychiatrists...ADHD seems like something a shockingly large number of kids have and I'm not convinced it is a "real thing."

It most certainly is a real thing. There's a significant difference between kids who are just hyper and kids who are literally incapable of controlling themselves. The main difference (from a clinical standpoint, and also from the standpoint of, say, my ex who's an elementary school teacher) is that kids who are just hyper enjoy being hyper, whereas the kids who have ADD want desperately to be able to control their minds and bodies and are demonstrably upset with the fact that they cannot.

[regexcellent]

Listen L Ron, if you watched me work for a full day you'd go "That dude has ADD" The H I dont have because im not a child.

What has me baffled is how many kids get diagnosed with some form of it or another and subsequently get prescribed stimulants.

I'm sure there are some people (you apparently) that really do need and benefit from the drugs.

[Guynemer]

Happily married monogamist liberal atheist 1 - Single closeted pedophile catholic racist 0

What am I, chopped liver?

2-0, *****.

[Guynemer]

What is ADHD anyway? I am a little distrustful of psychiatrists...ADHD seems like something a shockingly large number of kids have and I'm not convinced it is a "real thing."

I suppose that depends on what you would define as a "real thing". There really are people who, compared to their age/gender/SES cohort, have extreme difficulty maintaining focus and controlling impulses. The problem lies in our ability to accurately identify these people.

ADHD is almost certainly both overdiagnosed AND underdiagnosed.