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[quote name="A FRIEND"][quote name="Fullofkittens"]I feel I should mention that, in the US in 2014, dismissing autistic teenagers in trench coats as a group who never shoots up rooms full of people ignores the rooms full of people that autistic teenagers in trench coats have shot up recently.[/quote] I get that sir. Well-stated. However the school shooters and Eliot Rogers types are mad every single day about stuff that happens to them in real life every single day. They are frustrated beyond belief and angry and it's all stuff irl. My opinion, could be right could be wrong, is that the person throwing twitter death threats is trying to get a reaction or inconvenience someone like Brianna Wu from their laptop. If nothing happens, then whatever. Whereas a school shooter is motivated and has passion and cant take it any more. Thats not to say that the twitter death threats arent wrong and awful and terrible. I am not minimizing those. I dont think that anyone making those threats would carry it over to the real world BUT thats completely irrelev ant when its happening to you. I just want to clarify because out of cnotext it sounds like I am handwaving over what happens to those threatened & I'm not. [/quote]