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Originally Posted by dillfly2000
Seems a lot of these incels are a bit on the spectrum. Possibly Aspergers syndrome or high functioning autism.
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Exactly! These guys need medical help.
"Involuntary celibacy" is not a medical or psychological condition. Some people who identify as incel
suffer from physical disabilities or psychological disorders such as depression, autism spectrum disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder.[52] Some visitors of incel forums attribute their inability to find a partner to physical or mental ailments, while some others attribute it to extreme introversion. Many incels engage in self-diagnosis of mental health issues,[51] and members of incel communities often discourage posters who post about mental illness from seeing therapists or otherwise seeking treatment.[31][97] Some incels with severe depression are also suicidal,[26] and some members of incel communities encourage suicidal members to commit suicide, sometimes recommending they commit acts of mass violence before doing so.[31][34][81]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel
Psychologist and sex researcher James Cantor describes incels as "a group of people who usually lack sufficient social skills and...find themselves very frustrated." In social media forums, "when they're surrounded by other people with similar frustrations, they kind of lose track of what typical discourse is, and they drive themselves into more and more extreme beliefs."[98]