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Is autism an excuse for bad behaviour?

Autistic Not Alien

What do you think about this?

I think using autism as an excuse for bad behaviour is itself very naughty. When famous people do this, it harms autistic people because it implies that autism is a bad thing. Autistic people have enough difficulty gaining acceptance and understanding in this world – the ‘autism made me do it’ excuse makes advocacy and survival even harder. I've just posted a video about this [content removed by Moderator due to breaches of the online community rules and guidelines].

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  • No, it's not an excuse for bad behaviour.

    I do think we need some reasonable consideration and accommodation (I'm very aware of this at work at the moment) so that we're not forced into unfortunate behaviours, but autism is *never* an excuse for violence, bullying or any other kind of "dodgy" behaviour.

  • in reply to A

    Ok but putting my devils advocate hat on. Would you apply that to a child having a meltdown at school if it turned violent?

    It's been my observation that never is a word people throw around too easily. There is usually some exception and rarely are they able to offer a rational justerfacation why the exception should apply in some cases and not others.

  • in reply to Peter

    It’s a fair question, and a complicated one.

    In my own case meltdowns are rare and are provoked by things I shouldn’t have had to put up with in the first place. I don’t know if that’s true for everyone else. My point being that they are effectively a response to mistreatment and therefore to some degree defensible. (I should also say I’ve never been violent even in these circumstances).

    However, if someone is having a violent meltdown it’s not really fair to expect parents or teachers or whoever to accept being punchbags.

  • in reply to Peter

    I been told that cause I was going through my diagnose that I can’t use my diagnose if at the time as an excuse for my behaviour. So since November I had to leave my family home and sofa service 

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  • in reply to Peter

    I been told that cause I was going through my diagnose that I can’t use my diagnose if at the time as an excuse for my behaviour. So since November I had to leave my family home and sofa service 

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