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?
Is there any statistical evidence or us this just an opinion borne out of prejudice. It is logical to suppose that since a propotion of the population are paedophiles and a proportion are Autistic then some will be both. Indeed some NTs will also be paedophile. This does not mean that NTs tend to be paedophile. I doubt if the media will mention that a certain paedophile is not Autistic though. Journalists tend to do stories about particular cases and seek to generalise from one example. It just shows their ignorance.