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A info thread.
A info thread.
Elliot Rodger was born in London to Peter Rodger and Li Chin, a Malaysian-born nurse who had worked as a unit nurse on the set of 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' Peter also worked in film, directing television commercials and working on the hit film 'Hunger Games.'
At the age of 5, Peter, Chin, Elliot and his little sister Georgia moved back to California. Those were the good years. "It was really wondrous, those first four, five years of his life. It was wondrous. He was a really adorable, cute little boy," Peter Rodger said.
When Elliot was 7, Peter and Chin divorced. A year later, Peter remarried, this time to Soumaya Akaaboune, a Moroccan actress who had appeared in the Hollywood blockbuster "Green Zone."
It was also the year Elliot began his long journey with therapy.
Elliot had had problems, "but they weren't things that I would consider overly worrisome -- or that he would ever be a threat to himself or he would be a threat to other people," his father said.
Like a lot of kids, he wanted to be part of the cool crowd but had trouble fitting in. His parents moved him from school to school, trying to find a place where Elliot could succeed
His father said he had very few friends in elementary school. He was quiet and shy. He also had "a certain OCD" about him, always putting his plate in the same place at the dinner table, always wearing the same clothes.
There was a suggestion that Elliot might have had Asperger's syndrome, though he was never formally diagnosed.
Elliot Rodger's Rage Began Long Before Santa Barbara Shooting
Elliot said in his journal that his rage began to build even as a youngster as the son of a Hollywood insider with a front row seat to the entertainment industry's most powerful and glamorous.
Elliot said in his journal that his rage began to build even as a youngster as the son of a Hollywood insider with a front row seat to the entertainment industry's most powerful and glamorous.
"My little 9-year-old self realized that there were hierarchies, that some people were better than others. Jealousy and envy... those are two feelings that would dominate my entire life and bring me immense pain," Elliot wrote.
But Elliot hid that pain well, his father claims.
"If he were sitting here right now, you would think, 'What a polite boy he was,'" Peter Rodger said. "But yet, he had this thing going on inside of him."
"If he were sitting here right now, you would think, 'What a polite boy he was,'" Peter Rodger said. "But yet, he had this thing going on inside of him."
Peter Rodger said he never had an inkling that his son harbored a lethal rage inside him.
"There's no way I thought that this boy could hurt a flea. He'd never, ever been violent or showed any violent tendencies ever, ever," he said.
"There's no way I thought that this boy could hurt a flea. He'd never, ever been violent or showed any violent tendencies ever, ever," he said.
"I think that his mind was taken over by a disease," his father has concluded.
elliot dyed his hair blonde in 5th grade(p6/10-11 years old) because he thought it would make him seem cool to his classmates.
The lonely young boy had become an introverted teenager. By the age of 13, Elliot had walled himself into the fictional cyberworld of "World of Warcraft." His constant companions were the heroes and villains of the online fantasy game.
elliot said in his manifesto that
"Even in the World of Warcraft, I was an outcast, alone and unwanted."
"Even in the World of Warcraft, I was an outcast, alone and unwanted."
known video games that elliot rodger played are
⢠Counter Strike
⢠Call Of Duty World At War
⢠Call Of Duty Black Ops
⢠Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
⢠Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2
⢠Conkers Bad Fur Day
⢠World Of Warcraft
⢠Warcraft
⢠Halo
⢠Counter Strike
⢠Call Of Duty World At War
⢠Call Of Duty Black Ops
⢠Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
⢠Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2
⢠Conkers Bad Fur Day
⢠World Of Warcraft
⢠Warcraft
⢠Halo
(not saying video games made him kill ppl as I have played most of these games and I haven't killed anyone)
In high school, Elliot was bullied, though his father said Elliot would never talk about it with him. There were incidents when food was thrown at him, incidents when he was pushed into lockers.
"I was an innocent, scared little boy trapped in a jungle full of malicious predators, and I was shown no mercy," he later wrote in his diary.
He would leave two high schools before landing at the tiny 100-student Independence High.
For all the things that Elliot had- the Black BMW, the designer sunglasses- there was one thing that always eluded him: a girlfriend.
And that became his obsession until the very end. "I mean look at me, I'm gorgeous. But you girls don't see it. I don't understand why you're so repulsed by me," Elliot stated in his retribution video before his killing spree.
Sex became an obsession and an agony for Elliot.
"Finding out about sex is one of the things that truly destroyed my entire life. Sex, the very word fills me with hate," Elliot would write in his journal. "I would always covet it, I would always fantasize about it. But I would never get it."
Elliot Rodger uploaded a video to his YouTube channel(that has since been taken down) where he spoke of a "day of retribution" when he would have his "revenge against humanity" for his loneliness and sexual frustration.
He spoke of targeting women and proclaimed himself "the true alpha male."
" take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you. You will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one, the true alpha male. Yes, after I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house, I'll take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see-
-there. All those popular kids who live such lives of hedonistic pleasure while I've had to rot in loneliness all these years. They all look down upon me every time I tried to join them, they've all treated me like a mouse."
The rest of Rodger's videos portray the life of a depressed and lonely young man. Videos simply titled "Being lonely on Spring Break sucks" and "Why do girls hate me so much?" portended the events that unraveled.
In fact, his videos were so disturbing that a lawyer for the family said that the family reported Rodger's YouTube videos to authorities weeks before.
A video with the innocuous title of "Another sunny day in Santa Barbara" includes the description "I temporarily took all of my Vlog's down due to the alarm it caused with some people in my family. I will post more updates in the future."
in one video titled "Lonely In Santa Barbara" he mentions his loneliness and difficulty fitting in to the social scene of Isla
Vista.
Vista.
"Being lonely in a beautiful place like Santa Barbara is truly a horrible experience. As I've said many times, a beautiful environment can be the darkest hell if you have to experience it all alone, -
- especially while having to watch other men walking around with their girlfriends. I wish girls were attracted to me. I don't know why they aren't"
