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Malicious rumours

Mysterio23

My sweet, innocent, naive 18 year old son with ASD is experiencing vile and malicious rumours going around about him at college which are completely untrue. We are at a loss at what to do. The police aren't interested.  We have informed the college but not all the culprits go there so there is little they can do. As a result, he is extremely depressed, anxious and is self harming. He wants to move colleges as his reputation is in tatter but I feel he shouldn't have to. Has anybody else's child experienced this awful traumatising stuff? We've been told it's a civil matter but no guarantee of getting an injunction or charges pressed and have to pay £300 per culprit!! Help!

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  • those bullies won't stop, I know I had to deal with similar kind all childhood, they're (like someone mentioned) being seen innocent in eyes of their parents, because it's their parents teaching them that behaviour, they were bullies themselves probably.

    your kid needs to realise:

    1. they are talking rubbish just to spite him, they're like pack of hienas e.g. how can you be pedofile when you are adolescent? , 

    2. fighting physically isn't good idea, there'll be always few of them, and we're not the muscle type to stand a chance 1vs1, they wouldn't honour it anyway

    3. in my experience best solution was to ignore them completely, it has to be the type of ignore that criminals get in White Christmas episode of Black Mirror, it'll drive them nuts

    4. ignoring their words is the best way to protect his reputation, others will see it as proof of his innocence

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  • those bullies won't stop, I know I had to deal with similar kind all childhood, they're (like someone mentioned) being seen innocent in eyes of their parents, because it's their parents teaching them that behaviour, they were bullies themselves probably.

    your kid needs to realise:

    1. they are talking rubbish just to spite him, they're like pack of hienas e.g. how can you be pedofile when you are adolescent? , 

    2. fighting physically isn't good idea, there'll be always few of them, and we're not the muscle type to stand a chance 1vs1, they wouldn't honour it anyway

    3. in my experience best solution was to ignore them completely, it has to be the type of ignore that criminals get in White Christmas episode of Black Mirror, it'll drive them nuts

    4. ignoring their words is the best way to protect his reputation, others will see it as proof of his innocence

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