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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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  • I don’t know the person, he does have a son who is autistic and has high support needs, obviously this does make it more likely that a parent can be autistic. This still doesn’t forgive the alleged behaviour Greg Wallace.
    Sometimes parents have asked for advice on this forum for help with children or adolescents who say won’t keep clothes on, this is a sensory issue not sexual.

    A female tv personality who was diagnosed with autism a few years ago, now doesn’t work in tv, I believe she does podcasts. From what she has spoken about, there are quite a few people in the tv industry who are are loved by the viewers, these personalities are  often actually horrible people off camera. 
    Unfortunately younger people working in the tv and film industry are not believed when they do complain, they are actually believed but the asset the company owns will be protected.

    Im glad so many people are coming forward now and being taken seriously. How long did the owner of Harrods get away with it until the evidence became insurmountable against him. Unfortunately he did get away with it by dying. 
    The media seem to hone in on any bad situation an autistic person is allegedly involved in, it makes the world see autistic people as creepy or untrustworthy when this isn’t true.

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  • I don’t know the person, he does have a son who is autistic and has high support needs, obviously this does make it more likely that a parent can be autistic. This still doesn’t forgive the alleged behaviour Greg Wallace.
    Sometimes parents have asked for advice on this forum for help with children or adolescents who say won’t keep clothes on, this is a sensory issue not sexual.

    A female tv personality who was diagnosed with autism a few years ago, now doesn’t work in tv, I believe she does podcasts. From what she has spoken about, there are quite a few people in the tv industry who are are loved by the viewers, these personalities are  often actually horrible people off camera. 
    Unfortunately younger people working in the tv and film industry are not believed when they do complain, they are actually believed but the asset the company owns will be protected.

    Im glad so many people are coming forward now and being taken seriously. How long did the owner of Harrods get away with it until the evidence became insurmountable against him. Unfortunately he did get away with it by dying. 
    The media seem to hone in on any bad situation an autistic person is allegedly involved in, it makes the world see autistic people as creepy or untrustworthy when this isn’t true.

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