Ofsted climbs down

If these are the findings then I am glad that they have got to the truth. However, I would have liked to have known where did Ofsted get their original research from? 

Just yesterday it was noted that a man had autistic traits in his mitigating circumstances who was a Neo Nazi. 

www.bbc.co.uk/.../c39yex3v1ryo

I think OFSTED's inspections in general will always be too rigid for neurodivergent environments anyway. I remember seeing them when I was around 6 (so this is the early mid 2000s) and I remember them been pretty passive aggressive to the staff at my special school then. Complete theory here, but I'd wager that headmaster who took her life over that report they did won't have been the only one.

I hadn't heard about this - but how narrow-minded a view it was! Good for Chris Packham and NAS. All types of people become radicalised for all sorts of reasons. They need to organise a study by a top university, before issuing statements just because they think it will garner public acclaim.

TheCatWoman said:

eccentricity is a British thing that we do instinctively!

Yes, it ought to be seen this way and thus applauded as a reason for national pride. Perhaps we should have a British Eccentrics flag day!

Good work!  Well done NAS, Chris Packham and others!

I can see reasons why someone might be more vulnerable to radicalisation, but also reasons why they might not.

I suppose this means they cancel out and on balance they are no more prone.

Literal interpretation, black and white thinking, moral absolutism, lack of nuance, vulnerability to misunderstanding and manipulation, etc. are on the negative side.

On the positive side, focus on detail, wanting to dive deep into information and obsessive research might provide some immunity.

But emotional processing differences might cut either way. Particularly since lots of manipulative stuff these days plays to emotions, not facts. If you are prone or overly empathetic it sucks you in, if you are cold or can switch it off, you may be too hard.

Note that tendencies to fixed ideological end goals can apply to any area, human rights, climate change, politics, religion, where the greyness and compromises of the real world can become lost.

Ultimate though, everyone is an individual and should be treated as one, rather than lumped together as a class or group. Although, people are happy to be lumped into a group when it is advantageous.

Are we prone to violence, I would of thought more of us are prone to self harm or curlig up in a ball and hiding under a table.

I love to cook, this seem eccentric to people who don't and who see food as mearly fuel.

I love gardening, some people don't and think it a waste of time, the same as they do reading, when I could be "doing something", they never say what though. I'm sure we all have eccentricities, after all most of us are British, eccentricity is a British thing that we do instinctively!

It's fear of difference. Our hobbies seem eccentric to them and they label them special interests. Some autistic people have meltdowns in public and all autistic people are labelled prone to violence. 

I saw that too and I'm glad, what on earth made them take this stance in the first place? It seems a classic kneejerk reaction to one autistic person doing something abhorent that in no way reflects the rest of us. What about NT children who become radicalised, don't they count?

Thank you to all organisations and people who campaigned for this change