im pissed that people think autism is a violent disorder

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Douglas_MacNeill
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26 Mar 2011, 4:44 pm

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im pissed that everybody in virginia still thinks that all autistic people are violent 3 years after the virginia tech shooting. people still talk about autistics with fear because of the fear that articles in the washington post created. i know that i will always have to hide my true self because of the way the media represents me.


I read somewhere that anger is the one emotion which we--aspies and neurotypicals alike--tend to repress (or suffocate, to speak metaphorically).
Our culture tends to portray it as somehow un-Christian, even when anger could alert us to a wrong that needs to be made right. The next question is
how do we use anger like that to help us resist this faulty judgment.



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05 May 2015, 9:05 am

You could say that allism and other neurotypical spectrum condition can be a violent disorder but allistics would dismiss this as human nature but with autistic people, allistics blame autistic people. Also the notion of us having to 'know our place and failure to do so being labelled as an attitude problem are tricks that have been used by racists against black people too. :idea:



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05 May 2015, 9:06 am

You could say that allism and other neurotypical spectrum condition can be a violent disorder but allistics would dismiss this as human nature but with autistic people, allistics blame autistic people. Also the notion of us having to 'know our place and failure to do so being labelled as an attitude problem are tricks that have been used by racists against black people too. :idea:



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05 May 2015, 7:09 pm

Aspiewordsmith wrote:
You could say that allism and other neurotypical spectrum condition can be a violent disorder but allistics would dismiss this as human nature but with autistic people, allistics blame autistic people. Also the notion of us having to 'know our place and failure to do so being labelled as an attitude problem are tricks that have been used by racists against black people too. :idea:


Nice necropost. But I'd agree. If a normal person commits a crime, then they themselves are blamed. If they are attacked violently by police for no reason, the police are blamed. If an autist does the same thing, then autism itself is blamed.


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