Could there be an Irish Elliot Rodger here on Boards.ie?

Maid of the Mist wrote: »

Ugh I'm so tired of chatting to people who haven't a clue what they're talking about. Read Elliot Rodger's manifesto. It's an autobiography. He talks about how he had no trouble making friends before puberty. He used to hang out with a skateboarder group, go trick or treating with friends every halloween and have regular sleepovers. When he discovered the internet and online gaming, his life took a turn for the worse.

Should we not be concerned with people who lock themselves in a dark room with the laptop and the curtains drawn and withdraw from society? The Japanese recognise this a problem and term it "hikikomori". Why are Irish people in denial of the problem?

Heard on the radio this morning that his mother was making play dates for him until the age of eleven.
Maybe you should listen to what the professionals have to day about him rather than reading the ramblings of a disturbed mind.

pighead

I would be more worried about those who feel that anything of any real note could be deduced from the rambling writings of an obvious maniac, and let alone that this information could be used to gain a better understanding of society as a whole. This is the sort of thought process a potential disciple might have.

OP has missed his or her vocation as a reporter for some hysteria-starved tabloid.

OP is that you Enda Kenny

OP is a luddite...'the internet is the source of all evil!'

As if some people weren't fcking lunatics before it.

Maid of the Mist wrote: »

Ugh I'm so tired of chatting to people who haven't a clue what they're talking about

"By the ninth grade, Rodger was "increasingly bullied" and he stated that he "cried by myself at school every day". In 2012, Rodger stated that the "one friend I had in the whole world who truly understood" him "blatantly said he didn't want to be friends anymore", without offering him a reason for abandoning the friendship.[57] He was described as "a serial killer in the making" by users of a bodybuilding online forum of which Rodger was a registered member.[58]

According to his family's attorney and a family friend, Rodger saw multiple therapists since he was eight years old and while he was a student at Santa Barbara City College, although the school later claimed he was no longer taking classes.[16] The lawyer also said that Rodger was diagnosed with "highly functional Asperger syndrome" as a child.[59][60]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Rodger#Perpetrator


"But by then he had already been scarred by the divorce. “The family I grew up with has split in half,” he wrote, “and from then on I would grow up in two different households. I remember crying. All the happy times I spent with my mother and father as a family were gone.”

After his father remarried, Rodger wrote that his relationship with his step-mother, the Moroccan-born French actress Soumaya Akaaboune, became increasingly tense. He also began to find social interaction difficult. His paranoia left him adrift from society and unable to forge meaningful friendships."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-shootings-elliot-rodgers-revealed-as-a-cripplingly-shy-boy-whose-sense-of-alienation-drove-him-over-the-edge-9434060.html

He had aspergers - he had difficulty with social interactions - he developed a hatred towards women and became increasingly bitter

He had all the ingredients for a sociopath at the very least, not to mention the psychopathic behaviour he later and tragically exhibited

Maid of the Mist wrote: »

I don't hate the internet. I just don't think it's healthy, mentally or physically, to be sat down, staring at a laptop 24 hours a day. Everything in moderation.

I was criticised earlier for not "hanging around" to answerquestions, like I have no other obligations or commitments in my life.

It's part of the charter that you should contribute to a thread if you start one never mind common courtesy,also what's the point if you haven't the time or interest to contribute to your own questions?