Using Autism as an excuse

To be honest, I haven’t read all the replies, being autistic is never an excuse, it’s a reason!

try telling that to the mother of a child expelled for having a meltdown in class.

I dunno if that applies there tbh, because its not like anyone intends to have a meltdown or does so for manipulative or malicious purposes. "Excuse" feels like it belongs being aimed at innately bad acts, but a meltdown isn't bad behaviour, it's upset behaviour.
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I think "Autism is the reason" should have been perfectly acceptable to not expel the child. So the problem is the teacher/school.

Peter said:

An excuse is a reason that absolves one of blame. A reason alone does not automatically do that.

Exactly.

But it looks like it doesn't work like that in a real world, and I can't fathom it out

Hey some of use still use it that way, I'm young enough to remember the Flintstones. https://youtu.be/-5YAKrxDRNE

But language is always evolving and a google definition is only as good as if people use it as such. The dictionary definition is at best a guideline because it becomes irrelevant the second people decide a word means something else. As my old boomer Dad would say "gay used to mean happy".

But is it?  I was conditioned with extreme violence and it cured....

Oh wait, no it didn't, I just grew up having to struggle with the urge to kill every day for about twenty years... 

(But now, thanks to my membership of the Assassins Guild I am a respectable member of society :c)

But is it?  I was conditioned with extreme violence and it cured....

Oh wait, no it didn't, I just grew up having to struggle with the urge to kill every day for about twenty years... 

(But now, thanks to my membership of the Assassins Guild I am a respectable member of society :c)