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share ideas to combat bad press trope - 'dangerous solitary autistic' ?

Marianne72

Watching a two part BBC documentary on Luton murderer, Nicholas Prosper, I thought 'oh, the 'dangerous solitary autistic' trope. I spent months on moving to a new social housing area, with 3 neighbours literally running away when I went out. They got used to me - taking shopping indoors in my wheel-barrow, for example, or building eccentric grow-houses on my allotment. The 'eccentric' trope is preferable Rolling eyes . How do you think we could 'change minds' [and keep the change] about public perception of solitary autistics being 'dangerous'?

I get a lot of pleasure giving-out solutions - even when I get no response. I email my housing association, MP, government officials, supermarkets.. I sometimes email someone whose been in the news, where I have experience and think they might be heartened.  I've had good responses for quite a few ideas. It's good to be appreciated. All your creative, inventive, engineering, techie minds - what a waste if all this knowledge/experience is just used out of sight indoors!

What about autistic think-tanks, discussing social problems and issues and offering formal reports to people who can 'make a difference'? BBC news does have a news about autism page - this might be a good point of delivery.

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  • in reply to Hairyloon
    Iain said:
    think tanks you need to be a subject matter expert

    Hairyloon said:
    no idea how to take it forward

    I wasn't thinking of a paid job, just very informal, low key, using autistic analytical skills and creative ideas for changes that help the community locally, nationally. This chat would be an ideal venue, if the moderators put up a new thread - 'autistic ideas forum' or somesuch?

    I love giving out ideas on all sorts of things. It is one of my special interests. Usually in the form of emails, to firms (tweaks to products), my HA [resolving rubbish dumping, dog nuisance], also ideas arising from reading news articles e.g. knife crime, immigration. After gathering ideas, and making conclusions, this could be offered to an appropriate authority. 

    TheCatWoman said:
    Isn't this the sort of thing NAS should be doing? 

    NAS focus on the subject of autism and disseminating autism traits. They don't involve themselves outside this focus. It is necessary, sure, to tell the public oh, autistics are good at xxx, but I'm thinking of something which shows these traits in practical action.

  • in reply to Hairyloon

    Isn't this the sort of thing NAS should be doing?