I wanted to bring this up to see if others perceived things the same way.
Anti-bullying charities have come up with a series of bullying personal stories at school age, interspersed with guides to teachers. These are publicised on NAS website news, and there's a link to them on the NAS wbpages connected to the news story.
The stories seem to tackle autism in a secondary sense, a young carer with an autistic brother, a boy being made aware of others with autism, about being a geek. However the last guidance to teachers, right at the end, is specifically about autism.
The explanation goes part of the way. It covers young people in the spectrum being drawn into play to mislead them, wind them up or even get them into trouble. This is identified with unstructured time, so the solution is providing more structured time. It is mostly about people on the spectrum misunderstanding the intentions of others.
There's nothing here about sensory overload and a little only about social communication. It is mostly about being gullible.
On one hand I'm really glad to see autism taken into account in anti-bullying literature, because it has been missed out for so long. I just feel it "hardly scratches the surface" - ie I'd have hoped to see deeper understanding - maybe given time.......
It would be useful though if others who were bullied at school would have a look at the "Being Me" series and see if it would resolve the kinds of experiences you had. It would also be useful if parents of children currently being bullied had a look. Is it enough, or could it be improved?
This is a start, and perhaps with feedback it might be developed beneficially.
