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.
