Talk:Shōya Ishida/@comment-86.31.149.64-20170522021600/@comment-142.151.157.171-20170722222308

It's implied that his mother was always busy trying to make ends meat, and that he grew up by himself alongside his friends, therefore never truly learning right from wrong. In addition, there's a scene at the beginning where you see his friends with their parents behind them, but no one is standing behind him. Furthermore, he's just a child, he has no way of knowing what he did was wrong, especially because his friends kept encouraging him and supporting him. It's shown that the only person who didn't avoid/exclude her was sahara. It's also implied that he didn't know that what he did was classified as "bullying", since he and his friends would tease eachother and treat eachother poorly. Only when they kept harrassing her, and to a larger extent did he begin to realize the consequences of his actions. I'm not sure how you jumped the gun to diagnosing a child with "sociopathic tendencies", but I can't expect a sane level of analytical thought, and intelligence from everyone on the internet.