I had a search, and as you say some of them address his remarks about bullying, but the majority of them look at his anti-islamic and right wing (equivalent to UK BNP) sentiments (re the former interesting to see the name and photo of his solicitor).
There is a danger of seeing what he briefly refers to as bullying as a wider cause; he just refers to it once, otherwise it is things done to him. And we have yet to be clear on his Asperger status.
I couldn't be more committed to the issues of bullying. After all, despite being very tall and very strong I was bullied right through my entire schooldays - but largely because my peers found they could stage-manage and trigger entertaining meltdowns, and also on my gullibility. I was never actually bullied in the conventional sense - never beaten up, never had money taken off me. I was bullied because the symptoms of my then unknown Asperger's made me susceptible. It still amounted to a truly grim day-to-day "existance".
I have pointed out on a number of threads my efforts to pursue this with the anti-bullying charities. Most of them didn't and possibly don't still recognise autistic spectrum as a factor. It also leads me to wonder whether psychologists and psychiatrists and other health workers properly understand the kind of bullying experienced by people on the spectrum.
While I agree many people at the able end report being bullied at school, the sad fact is those experts in psychology and psychology whatever don't count people at the able end of the spectrum. They think pill popping and CBT solves the main issues and anything else people in the able part of the spectrum experience is down to their inadequacy and failings. That's the tragic sum total of progress on autism.
Yes we ought to discuss what impacts bullying has on how adults on the spectrum cope. But its not happening. Those clever scientists, supposed to be addressing autism, don't care a toss about able adults. Sooner you wake up to that the better. And I don't think on this forum we are going to get enough information around which to discuss it.
That leaves my primary concern here, linking autism and bullying with intended mass murder. Its sensationalist, unsupportable and likely to contribute to the public perception of autism rather than achieve any benefit. Discuss it yes.
Banner headline it, please no.
I had a search, and as you say some of them address his remarks about bullying, but the majority of them look at his anti-islamic and right wing (equivalent to UK BNP) sentiments (re the former interesting to see the name and photo of his solicitor).
There is a danger of seeing what he briefly refers to as bullying as a wider cause; he just refers to it once, otherwise it is things done to him. And we have yet to be clear on his Asperger status.
I couldn't be more committed to the issues of bullying. After all, despite being very tall and very strong I was bullied right through my entire schooldays - but largely because my peers found they could stage-manage and trigger entertaining meltdowns, and also on my gullibility. I was never actually bullied in the conventional sense - never beaten up, never had money taken off me. I was bullied because the symptoms of my then unknown Asperger's made me susceptible. It still amounted to a truly grim day-to-day "existance".
I have pointed out on a number of threads my efforts to pursue this with the anti-bullying charities. Most of them didn't and possibly don't still recognise autistic spectrum as a factor. It also leads me to wonder whether psychologists and psychiatrists and other health workers properly understand the kind of bullying experienced by people on the spectrum.
While I agree many people at the able end report being bullied at school, the sad fact is those experts in psychology and psychology whatever don't count people at the able end of the spectrum. They think pill popping and CBT solves the main issues and anything else people in the able part of the spectrum experience is down to their inadequacy and failings. That's the tragic sum total of progress on autism.
Yes we ought to discuss what impacts bullying has on how adults on the spectrum cope. But its not happening. Those clever scientists, supposed to be addressing autism, don't care a toss about able adults. Sooner you wake up to that the better. And I don't think on this forum we are going to get enough information around which to discuss it.
That leaves my primary concern here, linking autism and bullying with intended mass murder. Its sensationalist, unsupportable and likely to contribute to the public perception of autism rather than achieve any benefit. Discuss it yes.
Banner headline it, please no.
