Damaging story on ASD & child porn by Temple Grandin's m

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ation.html

The quick take away is that men with ASD are naturally into child porn, and this is a toxic combination that needs to be dealt with.

What a bunch of crap.

I can only begin to imagine how damaging and destructive this stupidly worded piece will be.

Wow, wow and f**king wow.

I'm not sure what she is trying to achieve with this?

What proportion of paedophilia is seen the the general population? Is it a surprise that some men with autism are also interested in the same subject.

WTF?!? What a bunch of slanderous sensationalist garbage. "The group is small, there are no numbers available, and there are few arrests on record." How the f--- can she make that leap from autism to pedophilia with no evidence, and how was this allowed to be published?

"Because of autism’s skewed neurology, those with ASD take in the world around them physical object by physical object—floor, ceiling, table, chair—with no sense of the whole picture, and no understanding that along with the chairs and tables there’s a non-physical reality."

What does this even mean? I don't understand it. What is this non-physical reality they wrote about because I don't know.

"Though now equipped with a full-grown body and full-grown sexual drive, many ASD males are stuck emotionally at a prepubescent age. They look like grown men, but inside they’re only 10 years old. They don’t want adults to show them how sex is done; they want 10-year-olds to show them."

That makes no sense to me. When I was young I only was interested in people much older than me. Just because you are a certain age emotionally doesn't mean that you are drawn to that age physically.

Maybe there is the occasional person like that but I doubt any more than there are in the nt population.

This is outraging. And some of the comments are even worse. She makes no real connection between ASD and child porn, and automatically assumes they're related with what evidence?

She is a sick b***h.

^ Agreed. This is a horrifying pile of garbage.

This is nonsense.

My brother has severe autism and has always been attracted to girls/women of his same age (even though he could not communicate it in an "usual" way).

Also my father is an adult with high-functioning autistic traits but he's never been into underage pornography or any type of pornography at all.

I think that if there are autistic men that are into underage pornography it is not because of their autism.

Well, pack your belongings everybody. I think its about time we leave earth now. I cant stand another moment here. anyone know a good habitable planet?

^ Donno, but this article makes me feel unsettled.

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It's funny how the correlation she sees is based on 1 person. :D

Of course, 1 person = a trend.

Unbelievable.

Maybe she is running on the Autism Supremacy ticket?

We should all be better than "normal" people.

I saw that. There seemed to be a lot of "I think"s and assumptions in the article. This is also a bit of a PR nightmare for men on the spectrum. I'm rather upset with this article...