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Greg Wallace's autism excuse for sexually inappropriate behaviour

TheCatWoman

I don't know if anyone has seen anything about this, but Masterchef presenter Greg Wallace has been sacked for sexually inappropriate behaviour towards numerous women over a number of years. At first he dismissed the complaints against him as middle class women of a certain age who didn't understand his humour and some of making it up.

Now he says' he's autistic, and my first thought was 'Really?' I think he's trying to use autism as an excuse for bad behaviour, I don't know of any autistic people who think it's OK to remove thier trousers, when wearing no underwear in front of female collegues, open the front door to someone wearing only a towel and then remove that towel once they're inside, or run down the street after them touching thier backsides. I've never heard of this sort of disinhibition being an autistic trait, he's still in denial that what he did was wrong and now says he's autistic like that makes it OK.

It's not OK, it's not OK for anyone autistic or not and I think that a man of his age would know that. What really annoys me is the feeling that he's attempting to jump on a bandwagon and use his "diagnosis" as an excuse, for inappropriate behaviour, giving te impression that all autistic people are like him.

I think we should start standing up to people like him and the media coverage they get using autism as an excuse.

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  • It is up to us as individuals to make our own decisions based on the facts we know. For all we know autism could be a factor in how Greg has behaved, additional there could be other many factors. Realistically we are probably never going to know as Greg is going to be the only person who knows. We only know about what is reported in the media and since the media's main existence is to make money and sell stories the media will focus in on the parts of a story which would cause most controversy and interest. In this case of Greg's story it is autism. 

    I would not get too hung up on it if I was you. To mist of us Greg is insignificant and give it a day or two and most people will have forgotten about him and his antics.

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  • It is up to us as individuals to make our own decisions based on the facts we know. For all we know autism could be a factor in how Greg has behaved, additional there could be other many factors. Realistically we are probably never going to know as Greg is going to be the only person who knows. We only know about what is reported in the media and since the media's main existence is to make money and sell stories the media will focus in on the parts of a story which would cause most controversy and interest. In this case of Greg's story it is autism. 

    I would not get too hung up on it if I was you. To mist of us Greg is insignificant and give it a day or two and most people will have forgotten about him and his antics.

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