Published on 12, July, 2020
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?
conflating autism with 'learning difficulty' is putting the cause back 40 years. i think a lot of non-autists with 'learning difficulty' get thrown in the autistic box out of lack of concern / laziness / ignorance. this is a general point and applies here i think. would be good to look at actual data on convictions and not just gut feelings from facebook / youtube experts.