It is honestly horrifying how selfish CWC is. Not just with this recent saga, but all through his life. The Chandler Christmas video was all about his own needs, and his own effing Christmas card to his parents was all about his love quest.
Many autistic people have empathy as you said. I myself am slightly on the spectrum and I'm sometimes overly empathetic (although as I've gotten older I've gotten more cynical). I've known many other autistic people with empathy and sometimes they express it poorly but I know it's there. With CWC, though, I really don't think it is.
I sometimes wonder if he's actually a sociopath. I know the term gets thrown around a lot, but I mean in terms of having no compassion for others, thinking of himself first, etc. CWC reminds me of Elliot Rodger in a way.
One of the problems that some autistic people can have sometimes is too much empathy. This makes them gullible. Not saying you are. I have been, though, and one way to counter-act that is through cynicism. The balancing act, and the one that more neuro-typical people get right is knowing when to employ empathy and when to employ distrust, or a healthy variant, thereof.
CWC was well under my radar. I still don't really give a fuck. But being on this site, and being a noobie, and even worse, being a bit of a politsperg, well, I can't help but watch and wonder at the car crash.
It's really not difficult. Autistic or not autistic. Don't overthink it. Some people are just cunts Some people are just bad people. CWC doesn't have the balls to rob a Bodega and blow away a few chinks like some badass nigger. He wishes. But it's not his thing. Predators come in many shapes and forms. In fact, he is probably more of the common type: lay low, wait, hide like a cat in the grass for an unsuspecting little mouse to come out. That mouse was his mother. It's really fucking sad actually. The very definition of tragic.
So yeah, he's a sociopath, depending on whatever metric you use for that definition. But he's also a coward. But cowards some times make the most successful predators, because they have to be.
I know autistic people with empathy. And I know autistic people with absofuckinglutely no empathy at all. Funnily enough, the ones with no empathy are the more successful in society and most people don't even know they are autistic, rather, just labeling them as a bit 'odd'.
It's a bit of a curse being autistic and having empathy, because even many 'neurotypicals' do not have this to any great degree. It can cripple you when you have the 'tism as well.
Whatever.
We all have to draw that line between trusting and not trusting. The social contract depends on it. And it works to a greater degree, otherwise society would just not function at all (even if it is a bit dysfunctional a lot of the time).
CWC broke that social contract.
Autism sperging should not come in to it.
(sorry for autism sperging)