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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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  • Marianne72 said:
    What about autistic think-tanks, discussing social problems and issues and offering formal reports to people who can 'make a difference'?

    Good idea, but I have no idea how to take it forward.

  • 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 Marianne72
    Marianne72 said:
    I'm thinking of something which shows these traits in practical action.

    Why not try a proof of concept session to see how it works. I can see there being many issues but it will only be though working out the wrinkes that it can improve.

    Do you have any ideas that we can build a scope document around? We need to establish a number of parameters for it to be meaningful.

    1 - What is the principle we are studying

    2 - what is the intended outcome

    3 - who is the target audience

    4 - how do we establish our credibility

    5 - what standards do we follow to enable peer review

    6 - how do we define success of the project.

    I'm just doing this off the cuff - there will be more to it than this naturally but it seems better to start than navel gaze.

    Would you care to start since I'm sure you have at least one project in mind.

  • in reply to Hairyloon
    Hairyloon said:
    The Civil Service has the experience.

    I've worked there - they were probably one of the most incompetent organisations I have ever worked with.

    They do have a few core groups within each department who do a good job but as an organisation I despaired. 

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