Why does there seem to be a high proportion of paedophiles with autism or aspergers?

I've been watching a lot of the paedophile hunter sting videos lately and almost all of the people they catch either have autism, ADHD , or in some cases a more severe learning difficulty. 

Obviously not all autistic people are paedophiles , and not all paedophiles are autistic but why is there perhaps a disproportionately high number of child sex offenders who are on the autistic spectrum? 

Parents
  • I'm not convinced they are. Maybe they're just the easier ones to catch. Also the police are not big fans of these so called pedophile hunters. They've been known to almost push people into breaking the law, in the sense that a jury looking at the evidence would conclude that if the 'hunter' hadn't almost engineered the illegal behaviour a crime would never have happened. That makes it hard to get convictions.

    Also autistic people may be more vulnerable to having their behaviour engineered by others. Which is a fair description of the way many so called pedophile hunters operate.

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  • I'm not convinced they are. Maybe they're just the easier ones to catch. Also the police are not big fans of these so called pedophile hunters. They've been known to almost push people into breaking the law, in the sense that a jury looking at the evidence would conclude that if the 'hunter' hadn't almost engineered the illegal behaviour a crime would never have happened. That makes it hard to get convictions.

    Also autistic people may be more vulnerable to having their behaviour engineered by others. Which is a fair description of the way many so called pedophile hunters operate.

Children
  • Oh I'm not endorsing paedophile hunters especially as 90% of the time they seem to engineer the situations. 

    But the person would still have to message the underage girl or whatever , whether the "underage" person was real or fake. The hunter groups don't do entrapment