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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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  • Thank you everyone for taking the time to reply to our dilemma. Looks like my son is going to just have to ignore the taunts and lies and try to get on with his life. Hopefully the perpetrators will get bored of it soon and sadly move on to some other poor victim. At least my son knows who his ‘real’ friends are. Most of his peers believe the lies and have abandoned him but one or two have stuck by him so they’re his real friends. Tis the way of the world and very sad that the most vulnerable folk don’t have any protection and the real criminals and thugs get away with it and the law seems to be more on their side. I know if he keeps getting goaded, he will react out of frustration and the whole unjustness of it all. Time to move away to a desert island I think… Smiley

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  • Thank you everyone for taking the time to reply to our dilemma. Looks like my son is going to just have to ignore the taunts and lies and try to get on with his life. Hopefully the perpetrators will get bored of it soon and sadly move on to some other poor victim. At least my son knows who his ‘real’ friends are. Most of his peers believe the lies and have abandoned him but one or two have stuck by him so they’re his real friends. Tis the way of the world and very sad that the most vulnerable folk don’t have any protection and the real criminals and thugs get away with it and the law seems to be more on their side. I know if he keeps getting goaded, he will react out of frustration and the whole unjustness of it all. Time to move away to a desert island I think… Smiley

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