Personally I do not see the harm in posting such news stories with an appropriate trigger warning. Users can choose to click the link or not. I have posted a link to the story below.
I think it is important to note that the mother was also autistic and battling depression. It is a tragic case which highlights the lack of effective support for autistic adults, especially if they are struggling to cope with the demands of parenting. If such news stories aren't shared within the autistic community how are things ever going to change.
Thanks for providing/posting the context for this matter. If a story is ok for publication in a standard local news publication format/circulation, I REALLY do struggle to understand why it should be worthy of contemplation for some form of censorship or redaction in this place......but then that's just me.
I REALLY do struggle to understand why it should be worthy of contemplation for some form of censorship or redaction in this place......but then that's just me.
Because for some members of our community, this article could be really triggering. Also, this community is meant to be friendly and welcoming and we don’t want to unnecessarily cause any distress, particularly because there is significant overlap with trauma in our autistic community.
I think we all have a responsibility here to support each other, after all many of our autistic community members come here seeking belonging, guidance and validation, connection amongst other things.
Our neurokin deserve safe spaces where they are celebrated and truly understood as too often in offline spaces this is not the case.
I think we all have a responsibility here to support each other, after all many of our autistic community members come here seeking belonging, guidance and validation, connection amongst other things.
Our neurokin deserve safe spaces where they are celebrated and truly understood as too often in offline spaces this is not the case.
