Published on 12, July, 2020
I’m coming of my self imposed retirement just to post this because it makes me so angry. The BBC keep associating autism with violent criminals when it’s about as relevant as his skin colour or gender.
How do we get the NAS to campaign to stop this dreadful reporting?
The unpalatable truth is that he may well have it. Does this mean all Autists are violent criminals? Of course not and intelligent folk will realise this. So try not to worry.
Yes - I think most people do know this. I’m not worried about this news story - myself and both my children are autistic and I think most people realise that being autistic doesn’t mean your going to commit crime!
There was s similar news story last year if you recall. With one of the lads who murdered Brianna Ghey being Autistic. People were saying on here it would turn the world against Autistic folk, but it did not.Some people also seemed to be shocked that an autist would be capable of such a thing. They must think all autistic people are angels rather than humans. But I don't think that. I recognise that Autists are humans and thus capable of doing all the bad things that an NT might do.