re: Kid who beat teacher for taking away his Nintendo has pled guilty. Punishment?

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Agreed. Read the story and you will it's clearly NOT THE CASE with this kid

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Exactly my point. I went into the story with a lot skepticism. I think the parents should have accepted that he could never be mainstream. I could also say that she should take more responsibility in her column, but I could also see a civil suit coming out of this and that doing big damage to her liability.

Still, the replies to this thread that act like autism, sociopathy, or psychopathy can just be willed away, or that they deserve no empathy, are fairly depressing.

I agree that we are FAR too quick to overmedicate spurious diagnoses. Those cases do not negate the cases that truly are mental illness.

I'm not at all advocating a lack of consequences here, but there sure is a lot of callous self-righteousness in this thread. Heaven help whoever pops up in your family with one of these issues.

Life has nuance. Keyboard warriors rarely do.