is it normal

I think most of us worry too much about getting into trouble to actually do much wrong.

It would be interesting to know if there are any statistics that show that people with AS are any more likely to offend than people not ASD.

A lot of very inappropriate behaviour goes on between non-AS adults, especially in the workplace.  It is just that it is done in a subtle manner, with humour, and covered over by social patter and inference that those on AS cannot emulate. This doesn't make it right, and that's why there is such a strong action against it happening by equality groups.

The real difference for people with AS is that they are likely not to be subtle, or able to cover up the inference, and they may be clumsy. So the incident may seem much worse in other people's minds.

A few years ago I was talking to a human resources person who said she would not employ people with AS because one place where she worked a young AS male was touching female staff inappropriately - she wouldn't explain further. When you consider how much inappropriate touching goes on in workplaces, her assertion is all the more ridiculous.

What is needed though is better guidance about the difficulties people on the spectrum are likely to encounter. The books I've found mostly seem designed to make people on the spectrum more self conscious and inhibited.

They don't mention what goes on in the non-AS population.

I think most of us worry too much about getting into trouble to actually do much wrong.

It would be interesting to know if there are any statistics that show that people with AS are any more likely to offend than people not ASD.

A lot of very inappropriate behaviour goes on between non-AS adults, especially in the workplace.  It is just that it is done in a subtle manner, with humour, and covered over by social patter and inference that those on AS cannot emulate. This doesn't make it right, and that's why there is such a strong action against it happening by equality groups.

The real difference for people with AS is that they are likely not to be subtle, or able to cover up the inference, and they may be clumsy. So the incident may seem much worse in other people's minds.

A few years ago I was talking to a human resources person who said she would not employ people with AS because one place where she worked a young AS male was touching female staff inappropriately - she wouldn't explain further. When you consider how much inappropriate touching goes on in workplaces, her assertion is all the more ridiculous.

What is needed though is better guidance about the difficulties people on the spectrum are likely to encounter. The books I've found mostly seem designed to make people on the spectrum more self conscious and inhibited.

They don't mention what goes on in the non-AS population.