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I cant cope anymore

pokemonmaster

Hi my name is Korrine, i am 17 and i have aspergers syndrome and dyspraxia. 
I am currently in my first year of college and I am studying forensic science. It is hard for me to find and maintain relatioships. I have just been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, so i have had a lot of time off college, i have told my friends whats going on, and they dont believe me, they wont talk to me at all now no matter how hard i try. I also have oter problems going on and I have recently been put on a anti-depressant. 
I dont know what to do anymore, i cant cope.
Is there anyone that can help?

Korrine x 

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  • The system doesn’t understand us properly and never will. They act so shocked when an autistic person shoots up a school or a cinema but they never acknowledge the pain that would lead a law abiding member of society to commit such atrocious crimes. 

    I was recently assaulted by a bouncer on my birthday. I wasn’t drunk, violent or loud. I was calm and collected but because he couldn’t understand me he dragged me out instead of asking for me to leave. The criminal justice act lists what he did as battery and even ABH because of my autism. But the police told me it was reasonable force because he tried talking to me first. He wanted to know why I wasn’t paying for admission as I calmly explained that I was waiting for my friend to pay for me.

    The rule of thumb is that autistic people don’t matter, if you are too awkward to understand, you aren’t entitled to the same respect others are. You get treated like a naughty dog and get dragged outside with your civil rights being completely nutered. 

    I have strong violent urges now because I cannot get what happened out of my head. He had no right to touch me, he shouldn’t have touched me, I had plenty of evidence and the law clearly says that what he did was an offence. But the police were on his side. The world is making it very clear that it’s them against us. When we want to just lead as normal a life as we can, we get harassed and patronised and harmed.

    But when someone with autism retaliates and causes harm to the majority who oppress us or neglect us or speak about us as though we are things and not people and like we are void of any intelligence, that person with autism isn’t the victim but a criminal. 

    If their own ignorance causes the harm then it is just deflection and scapegoating to blame the autistic person who carriis d out the shooting. “Oh it’s not our fault that we drove a minority completely insane by treating them like an animal or a drone and not a person” 

    [Edited by Heather - Mod to remove swearing]

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