Published on 12, July, 2020
Please excuse me for not fully understanding Autism to the fullest it's rather a new world to me. I am not on the spectrum (please forgive me If anything i say comes across as offensive its not my intention)
Are people with aspergers understanding on the concept of blackmail, ie can they actively do it out of malious, with the intent of causing emotional distress/harm or do they not fully understand it and find themselves in a situation.
I'm sorry you went through this. I think it's very dependent on the person. I'd say that it is certainly possible for Autistic people to actively blackmail or to cause harm towards people around them in other ways with malicious intent, just as it's possible for non-Autistic people to do so. If the person went to prison as you say they did, then it sounds to me like a judge and jury had reason to believe that their behaviour was malicious at least to an extent, in spite of their diagnosis.