I admit, I found my heart sinking when I read that the killer had an ASD and was extremely bright. Both because of how this will affect other people with ASds and their families, and because it frightened and freaked me out on a gut level. DD doesn't have an ASD diagnosis, but we haven't ruled it out. She is extremely compassionate towards animals and very altruistic in her general thinking, but I am sometimes alarmed by her ability to become cold and nasty when stymied, and recently by a new tendency towards frequent lying (which she is quite good at due to being very quick on her feet and a good actor). She lies about things that don't matter. She also blames her problems on others--it's very hard for her to admit fault.

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