He can be both, you know. A sociopath and someone with Asperger's. Just because someone has autism does not prevent them from taking a criminal bent. The descriptions by his childhood friend of someone who was friendly but "not there" and stopping what he was saying and doing to apparently zone out is especially troubling. I think he had the Asperger's first and the psychosis kind of grew around it over the years, largely because it was undiagnosed and left untreated.
I have a nephew with Aspergers. His inability to figure out social interactions has pretty much lead him to develop antisocial personality problems. I don't really have much hope for him once he graduates high school and gets out in the world. The best case scenario is that he'll live in the basement and play dungeons and dragons and troll message boards for the rest of his life. I'm not kidding. Every other scenario leads to early death or incarceration.
I can easily see that Karr's documented problems with social interaction stemming from a undiagnosed condition, especially in light of his mother sufering from a brain chemical-imbalance form of insanity. Karr's obsessive behavior dates back to high school and no doubt beyond. I suspect the Delaorean/used cars business was one of these obsessive "phases".
A psychiatrist on CTTV today commented on how strange that Karr, unlike other pedophiles, never seemed to "learn" from his antisocial activities. He'd get a job teaching and be fired in two weeks due to inappropriate behavior. Then he'd get anotehr job and lose it in two weeks. Most, if not all, predatory pedophiles learn to adjust/mask their behaviors in order to further perpetuate it. Although pedophiles might believe what they do is "right", they normally understand what is and isn't considered normal within society as a whole and know when they're calling attention to themselves.
After leaving high school in Hamilton, he seems to have made no real adult friends to speak of. I suspect anyone who was around him for any length of time soon discovered he was too weird to be around, like the reporter who met him in Paris, and kept their distance as best they could.
