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Adult strategy

Mike Stanton

hi all,

not sure if this is the best place. Perhaps we need a category for campaigns. But now the government has published the statutory guidance for implementing the Adult Autism Strategy it would be good to share our experience of implementation around the country. In Cumbria we have a Cumbria Autism Partnership Board with NAS representation that is holding forums around the county to get participation from adults and carers. Nothing has happened yet. I will keep you posted.

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  • I think that the one sentence that sticks out as crucial is that the perpetrators mother did not see the horror of this crime, which makes me think that the perpetrator did not have the moral values instilled from an early age, he may have come form an abusive home, where he may have seen violence as normal.

    Also many people get  into arguments and beat the xxxxxxx out of each other, and live to  see another day.  This occurs in all social environments. It  is not the norm for someone to die when punched, if it was I believe more people would definitely think twice.

    In all fairness it is likely that this person would have struck out at anyone who challenged him, disabled or not.

    It is without doubt horrific because the victim was only trying to do the right thing and our 'reaction is fuelled by the fact that this could very easily happen again, and that having an asc increases the risk.   an asc person may not know how to diffuse the situation and will instead stick to their principles, thereby through no fault of their own escalating the conflict.

    It is possible that the perpetrator showed remorse and possibly his upbringing may have influenced the courts leniency. 

    Ps.  I am not condoning the behaviour and my heart goes out to the victims family.  I hope they can find comfort in knowing that their son was only doing what he thought was the right thing to do and that he could not have predicted the outcome.

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  • I think that the one sentence that sticks out as crucial is that the perpetrators mother did not see the horror of this crime, which makes me think that the perpetrator did not have the moral values instilled from an early age, he may have come form an abusive home, where he may have seen violence as normal.

    Also many people get  into arguments and beat the xxxxxxx out of each other, and live to  see another day.  This occurs in all social environments. It  is not the norm for someone to die when punched, if it was I believe more people would definitely think twice.

    In all fairness it is likely that this person would have struck out at anyone who challenged him, disabled or not.

    It is without doubt horrific because the victim was only trying to do the right thing and our 'reaction is fuelled by the fact that this could very easily happen again, and that having an asc increases the risk.   an asc person may not know how to diffuse the situation and will instead stick to their principles, thereby through no fault of their own escalating the conflict.

    It is possible that the perpetrator showed remorse and possibly his upbringing may have influenced the courts leniency. 

    Ps.  I am not condoning the behaviour and my heart goes out to the victims family.  I hope they can find comfort in knowing that their son was only doing what he thought was the right thing to do and that he could not have predicted the outcome.

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