Over the weekend, a blog post entitled "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother" went viral. The author, Liza Long, described the extremely dangerous behavior of he son and worried that he could some day become the next mass murderer. 

The many responses to this blog post have also gone viral. Some criticized this woman for publishing her son's name. Others have gone through her blog posts to find supposed evidence of bad parenting. Others have said that she has created a hysteria about autistic children. 

Liz Long's post was most striking not for the description of her son, but for the solitude that she felt. She had to handle a very difficult children entirely on her own. She needs a community of support and a team of professionals to assist her. Her blog post was written entirely from a first person perspective. I would like to have heard more "we" and less "I." 

I'm quite certain that Long's son won't become the next mass murderer, because 99.9% of even very troubled individuals like Long's son don't end up as mass murderers. They usually just end up doing hurting themselves in the form of drug abuse and more conventional acts of violence. But this poor woman is still handling an enormous burden by herself. 

If everybody is searching for answers, maybe one positive change is to keep those families safer and to help those with bigger burdens than our own.