A Look at Causation: The Killer Autism Mom Phenomenon
By L.J. Goes Yes. Today is the day. As I read about the murder-suicide of Maryland Psychiatrist, Dr. Margaret Ferne Jensvold and her son Benjamin Barnhard, (MyFox DC Margaret Jensvold Autism Murder Suicide) I pondered if their tragedy began with this sort of detached speculation. Gotta remember to stop by the grocery store and the bank before I pick up Ben from school. Do we need grapes? I should have checked. Did I fill out those forms for summer camp? Looks like I might need to get some gas on the way to work. When to end our lives.when to end our lives. Do these horrific thoughts just co-mingle with one s day to day internal chatter or do they eclipse rational thought over a period of time, like obsessions? Dr. Margaret was certainly the person we would have gone to to ask such a question, as psychiatry was her specialty. Did she plan their demise for several days? A year? Or did she simply pay too much attent