Le mythe du "tireur autiste"

Illustration Brian Stauffer 

 Article pertinent dans sur le site du New York Times ce matin. Une fois de plus après la tuerie en Orégon on a entendu ce discours qui consiste à rejeter la faute sur les problèmes liés à la santé mentale ou à la maladie pour expliquer le nombre catastrophique de ces regrettables incidents aux États-Unis. Plus précisément, on a pointé l'autisme. Pourtant, les liens sont difficiles à établir.

 "The wish to hurt others is tied not to autism but to psychopathy, which manifests in a deficiency or absence of empathy and remorse. Some autistic people may not recognize why they cause distress; psychopaths don’t care that they cause distress. Autistic people may see the world from a singular, personal perspective; psychopaths are often cunning manipulators who act according to perceived self-interest without regard for the destruction they cause. Psychopathy seems to have coincided with autism in the cases of Mr. Harper-Mercer at Umpqua and Adam Lanza at Newtown, Conn. Psychopathy apparently coincided with depression and grandiosity in the cases of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine and Elliot O. Rodger at Isla Vista, Calif. Psychopathy almost certainly coincided with schizophrenia in the cases of James Holmes in Aurora, Colo., and Jared Loughner in Tucson."

  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/opinion/the-myth-of-the-autistic-shooter.html?hpw&rref=opinion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well