A growing perception about people with Asperger's Syndrome

In recent years, people on the autistic spectrum, and particularly those who have Asperger's Syndrome, have become stereotyped by ignorant people into thinking that if a person has the diagnosis, they are either:

A sexually confused individual

non-communicative

not very bright

only interested in trivial matters

and most recently, also most troubling; harmful people with the potential to murder others.

It is not all true.  I have Asperger's Syndrome.  I know what my sexual interests are; in that I am attracted to the opposite sex (females in this case).  My levels of communication are just like that of other people; maybe I do get wordy at times, yet that is just me.  I have a University degree, which proves wrong many traits I will not get to in this post.  Also, as can be seen here and elsewhere, my concerns are about the world we live in; and what can be done to better it. 

Now, admittedly, I have had issues pertaining to not being able to keep my emotions in check.  Indeed, each time I have gotten upset visually over something personal that I had reason to complain; the outcome was not all positive, if anything good were to come out of it.  And yet, there are some things I can say that I am proud of in that matter:

I have never owned a firearm and have no reason to ever own one.

I have never said to any one "I am going to kill you" in a fit of anger.

I have made amends, or at least tried to, once some stupid crap occurred.

And, most notably, I did not use my Asperger's Syndrome as a license to do anything to anyone.

In short, Robert Kelly (that's me) has not done any of this.  Robert Durst has done pretty much all of this.  Were I or you to do even one of the crimes Mr. Durst committed; we would be in prison for life at least.  Three of these crimes, we would be given death by lethal injection.  So what has made Robert Durst been able to, until last night, get away with killing at least three people, possibly two others, and likely even commit financial fraud?

Well that last one is a bit of a giveaway, is it not?  Robert Durst is the nearly 72 year old son of the late real estate magnate Seymour Durst, and older brother of Durst Industries CEO Douglas Durst.  The Durst family are billionaires in the world of real estate, including land development in New York State.  Yes, Robert Durst left or was kicked out of the family business some 20 years ago; yet the inheritance money still remained. 

What does that mean in this world?  Absolutely, unequivocally, Nothing.  Mr. Durst, and by extension the Durst family, are clear examples of obtaining wealth and riches without making a valuable service to humanity.  These people, in short form, are the members of the 1% whose contributions to humanity are miniscule at best, non existent at worst.  Put it another way, Fred Durst has meant more to this world than Robert Durst has ever meant.  And they are not even related, thank goodness. 

It is, however, quite the lack of surprise when a man of his own avarice and vanity thinks that sitting down for an interview to tell his side of a story wherein he is the outright villain will merit sympathy and nothing will come of it.  One slip of the tongue, one moment caught off-guard, one look at the track record of who is interviewing you: in this matter Andrew Jarecki, and everything can end for the subject in regards to his freedom and his integrity.

Yet, unlike Andrew Jarecki's 2003 documentary Capturing The Friedmans, the Paradise Lost series of films about the West Memphis 3, Errol Morris' 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line and 2013 book A Wilderness of Error, or even in a certain matter the Truman Capote novel and later film In Cold Blood; The Jinx is not an opening of setting Robert Durst free of the crimes charged.  It is not even, in the Capturing The Friedmans matter, a look at a case where innocence is there yet some form of guilt is presented to the deceased.  With the revelations presented in The Jinx; it becomes abundantly clear that Robert Durst is, to paraphrase Garry Trudeau in an early Doonesbury comic strip about people in the Watergate affair, "Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!" 

Here below is the final coup de grace in the six part series; a structure in life I know all too well.  You see, I too can usually talk to myself when not many are around.  A lot of times, the truth comes out.  All I kept thinking after seeing this is; why did it take this long for the truth to come out on Mr. Durst and the last 33 years.

That final 2 minutes or so of the miniseries has, I think, elevated The Jinx to becoming one of the most seminal programs to have been aired on American television, much less HBO.  At the least, we will be looking at The Jinx in the same way we look at The Wire and Paradise Lost: HBO programs that changed everything regarding their subjects.  In most regards, I think this will be studied in Universities, at Law Schools and Law Firms, and in Film Schools on pretty much any subject matter pertaining to the issue of crime.  Personally, I think The Jinx, and Andrew Jarecki, deserve a Peabody award for this important work.

We will shortly see if this drives the last nail in Robert Durst's credibility.  We shall also see if his matter starts a trend from people with Asperger's Syndrome to have the ignorant know we are not all like Mr. Durst, or even from 3 years back Adam Lanza. One thing is certain though: Robert Durst may likely spend the remainder of his life more notorious and despised than before.  What a stupid yet monstrous person he has turned out to be.

Well, I advise all of you fellow travelers to go see The Jinx; which you can now watch on demand from the beginning to the end.  You will not be disappointed.  Tomorrow, I plan on posting my thoughts on the elections in Israel; which I think will have untold consequences for the Middle East region, and yes the world itself.  Feel free to comment on what you read and see here.

Talk to you tomorrow,

Robert