Matt

Yeah, I'm just playing my Nintendo.

Yeah, I'm just playing my Nintendo.

Kids with autism can have trouble reading other people's facial expressions. They can have trouble expressing their own emotions.

Kids with autism can have trouble reading other people's facial expressions. They can have trouble expressing their own emotions.

they don't lack empathy entirely. And what I see in that interview from the limited amount of it that we have access to, what I see in that interview is a complete lack of empathy. And, and then what got really weird is I don't think, you know, growing again, having an autistic sibling, I don't see him saying, I know what happened and then describing it in the way he did as being autistic. Yeah.

they don't lack empathy entirely. And what I see in that interview from the limited amount of it that we have access to, what I see in that interview is a complete lack of empathy. And, and then what got really weird is I don't think, you know, growing again, having an autistic sibling, I don't see him saying, I know what happened and then describing it in the way he did as being autistic. Yeah.

he almost seemed like proud of himself.

he almost seemed like proud of himself.

Yeah. I, and to be fair there, you can look at it the charitable way, which is maybe he had autism, but I think that that's not Occam's razor. I don't think that looking at that interview, the simplest explanation is that he's on the autism spectrum and,

Yeah. I, and to be fair there, you can look at it the charitable way, which is maybe he had autism, but I think that that's not Occam's razor. I don't think that looking at that interview, the simplest explanation is that he's on the autism spectrum and,

Did you show that in the video? I think I did. Even more, because again, that whole little episode there, because he changes demeanor so much. He seems distracted, just being a fidgety little 10-year-old kid.

Did you show that in the video? I think I did. Even more, because again, that whole little episode there, because he changes demeanor so much. He seems distracted, just being a fidgety little 10-year-old kid.

And then, as soon as the question of what do you think happened comes up, It's such a deliberate shift from being a little playful, like, you know, it's still a little weird, but to, well, I know what happened. Shifts his position, gets into, like, storyteller mode, and he's like, I think somebody tiptoed, like, you know, got her, tiptoed down to the basement, took a night.

And then, as soon as the question of what do you think happened comes up, It's such a deliberate shift from being a little playful, like, you know, it's still a little weird, but to, well, I know what happened. Shifts his position, gets into, like, storyteller mode, and he's like, I think somebody tiptoed, like, you know, got her, tiptoed down to the basement, took a night.

Like, total change in demeanor.

Like, total change in demeanor.

Yeah. Like acting it out. It just again, I'm not a psychologist. I am very limited for me. I took psychology and sociology courses in high school and I've read a lot. That's what I've got. I've also been in therapy for a lot of my life for the exact opposite reason of, you know, struggling to not have human connections. I get too intense about my human connections. The entire thing skeeved me out.

Yeah. Like acting it out. It just again, I'm not a psychologist. I am very limited for me. I took psychology and sociology courses in high school and I've read a lot. That's what I've got. I've also been in therapy for a lot of my life for the exact opposite reason of, you know, struggling to not have human connections. I get too intense about my human connections. The entire thing skeeved me out.

And the way that he, again, like Bernhard, you know, she said she didn't see sociopathy. She also had a reputation amongst police, according to Thomas, for being as charitable as possible during psych evaluations and not liking to take things to criminal proceedings, not wanting to testify.

And the way that he, again, like Bernhard, you know, she said she didn't see sociopathy. She also had a reputation amongst police, according to Thomas, for being as charitable as possible during psych evaluations and not liking to take things to criminal proceedings, not wanting to testify.