I don't think I can take the media's word for it whether or not any of these people actually were on the autism spectrum...it is certainly possible but its not as though autism makes people do that it might be a factor as to why they may have been ostracized which may have be a factor in such crimes.

As for stigma it might create, I keep in mind it's ignorant to assume someone is going to do something terrible like that because they have a certain mental disorder....sure it doesn't help but its nothing new.

Anyways I suffered a lot of bullying and ostracism growing up, and sure sometimes I did think about what I could do to get them all back. Not really sure what stopped me...maybe it was that I dealt with things more internally ended up trying to commit suicide instead of trying to kill or hurt anyone else. I suppose now what prevents it is I simply have no desire to kill anyone unless I had to in self defense or something. Of course in addition to being on the autism spectrum I have PTSD and since I've been aware of the symptoms of that I seem to have developed a weird issue where I can do things I would not do.....if I get experiance disassociation or whatever its called when my rage mode thing is triggered it can get rather bad, luckily though that never lasts so long I could do anything to that degree without getting stopped long before due to complete insanity. I end up hurting myself more than anyone else.

I think everyone has a breaking point autism or not, when someone is pushed to that point bad things can happen...though I certainly cannot claim that everyone who commits a mass shooting did it due to anything like that...as I don't know what went on in their heads exactly. Ironically enough the media jumping on autism or other mental disorders is likely to only increase stigma which only creates more ostracism and alienation of people with autism or other mental disorders.