Since AW is probably not long for this platform, let me impart something uncharacteristically personal. This is difficult and probably enough information to dox me, but I don’t care. 1/
My followers know I’m no fan of You Know Who. But the armchair circulation of Asperger’s misinformation to explain his decisions is repugnant to me. 2/
I will not stand for stigmatization of people on the spectrum. Asperger’s did not make You Know Who an asshole. He did that himself. 3/
I raised a stepson with Asperger’s since he was 5. When he was 12, he began raping my biological daughter, who was 8. This went on for years. My then-wife knew and concealed it. We fled the house as soon as I found out. 4/
Their legal defense? Asperger’s. Charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, he pleaded down to indecency. Asperger’s did not make him a rapist, but it gave the DA enough pause about whether a jury would convict a defendant with the diagnosis. 5/
For every person on the spectrum who uses their diagnosis as an excuse, there are ten thousand empathetic, loving, and thoroughly wonderful people who don’t. I beg you not to turn this into something it’s not. Don’t add more casualties to You Know Who’s path of destruction. 6/