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'''Seung-Hui Cho''' was a [[truecel]] and the perpetrator of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. Cho killed 32 people before shooting himself in the temple. | '''Seung-Hui Cho''' was a [[truecel]] and the perpetrator of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. Cho killed 32 people before shooting himself in the temple. | ||
Cho did this after being rejected/ripped-off by a [[hooker]]<ref>https://nypost.com/2007/04/24/cho-paid-me-to-be-escort/</ref> and being rejected by a female fellow student he was infatuated with, among other personal issues. | Cho did this after being rejected/ripped-off by a [[hooker]]<ref>https://nypost.com/2007/04/24/cho-paid-me-to-be-escort/</ref> and being rejected by a female fellow student he was infatuated with, among other personal issues. | ||
==Mental health== | |||
Across the course of his short life, Cho had several run-ins with the mental health system, which categorically failed to assist him and interdict his violence behavior. In he was diagnosed by a psychiatrist with 'selective mutism' as well as major depressive disorder in high school at the age of 15 following the Columbine Massacre, which he openly celebrated, and prescribed the anti-depressant Paroxetine.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121017064816/http://www.roanoke.com/vtshootings/panel_report/chapter4_mentalhealth.pdf</ref> Despite these diagnoses, it has been suggested that Cho actually suffered from [[Asperger's syndrome]] or high-functioning autism,<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00223980.2016.1175998</ref> and a cursory glimpse at the descriptions of his behavior and his history of social maladjustment and bullying victimization also support this diagnosis. Selective mutism is also a common symptom of autism and may be associated with speech difficulties and social anxiety, both of which are often co-morbid with autism.<ref>https://www.autismparentingmagazine.com/selective-mutism-autistic/</ref> | |||
==Rejection by escort== | ==Rejection by escort== | ||