Look it up in any book on Asperger's. The same kind of people who obsess over math and science can often have problems expressing the part of the emotional spectrum that lies between dissatisfaction and rage.

Smart people whose brains are hard-wired to have trouble communicating feelings can get really mad when they feel like the task of communication has become hopeless.

Racial and cultural issues, and gender issues as well, can compound this feeling of hopelessness.

Plus, if the person is working in an environment where everyone else has Asperger's too, then their small attempts at cries for help will not be adequately recognized in time by their peers.

I think the people who run the kinds of school and academic departments where Aspies tend to cluster should try harder to better socialize the students who present signs of Asperger's when they're admitted.

It's not just shootings that are the problem. I've personally witnessed that poorly socialized Aspies are behind a lot of the "hostile climate" problems that women and people of color find when they try to enter Asperger's-dominated fields like math and physics.

especially for boys, who mostly come to the world "some assembly required".

"Model" minority--- NOT!!! Television models expectations for "personalities." The public demands EQ. C-Span, Bill Moyers and Democracy Now! are off the map of American consciousness because they lack the compelling oomph of emotional cues. Whites like to communicate in so many "yee" "haw" sonic directives and emoticons that all I hear or see is "grok" "Grok" "groK" gROk" "GroK," and so on and so forth. Every Picture Tells a Story.

Review is bang-straight on. I don't regret seeing it, but it doesn't quite work. I'm surprised it's found distribution, honestly, although with that cast alone, I suppose it was inevitable. Probably should have been straight-to-DVD.

And, er. No. Nothing in this particular film touches on, suggests, or has anything to do with Asperger's syndrome. It's about cultural dislocation, a lack of support systems, long hours, few resources, unbalanced power relationships, the abusive norms and culture of grad school in math/science. But there are not (in this film) any Aspies running amok. The answers are not nearly so cut-and-dried.