12 dead, 58 injured in Colorado at midnight showing of Dark Knight

Such as a guy shooting up a movie theater.

Hallucinogenic drugs don't mix well with mental illnesses.

 

Except when they're prescribed for the treatment of mental illnesses.

www.livestrong.com/article/28843-list-hallucinogenic-antidepressant-medications/

www.counseling.txstate.edu/resources/shoverview/bro/psychmed.html

Do you think he was high when he shot the place up? Do you think he was having a flashback?




typo

 

That you're not showing promise of becoming a great scientist doesn't necessarily mean you're not highly exceptionally gifted. There's more to it than sheer smarts.

 

Yeah, he might have overdosed and then fallen asleep.

 

I don't know that he was brilliant, but he was smart enough to get into a neuroscience graduate program with a 10 percent admission rate, according to the NYT piece. Not shabby.

 

Well, his would-be mentors didn't appear to see the gleam, and a few of them have gone on record in saying that.
Those programs have a way of quickly separating the wheat from the chaff.
He can blame it on being depressed or not getting enough trim or not having any friends or boo hoo hoo any other thing these losers like to blame their failures, defectiveness and anger on.
The end reality is he sheerly wasn't good enough to advance in the program of his designation.

 

No doubt. I mean, even Harvard Medical School has someone who finishes last in his class, right? I'd imagine that that person's high school and college classmates would say he was pretty bright.

 

Why is there often a NEED to depict these animals as having been exceptional children and students?
Is it for psychological comfort, that they're human computers gone bad?
Tell me this isn't usually the prevailing narrative.
Holmes was not exceptional.
He proved over the course of his life he wasn't very good at a lot of things.

 

Are they portrayed as exceptional students? Or as high-IQ misfits, a la Kaczynski?

 

He wasn't exceptional, but per the background writing he was well on the right-hand side of the bell curve. He was at least a +1.5 standard deviation guy.

 

Who else do you refer to?

Holmes was a graduate student in neuroscience. I understand that when you dig deeper, that doesn't automatically mean he was a genius. But when you first hear that, it sounds impressive. I don't think the NYT piece was over the top at all when it came to his intelligence. It noted that he failed his oral exams but was quite thoughtful in marking comments on other students' written papers.

 

The aforementioned Kaczynski was a legitimate child prodigy. He skipped a grade and got into Harvard at 16.
Not just some dork who went to a science camp and gave a presentation.
He wasn't just a high-IQ misfit.
He was exceptional in all the right and wrong ways.
Others?
Depends on how you want to classify mass murderers.