'Lucky you are autistic, you can't feel sexual abuse'

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Poor kid. What the hell is his teachers' and principal's problem? Were they treating him like that because he's autistic? And how does him being autistic make him lucky? I'm autistic and I think I would know if I was being sexually abused. I've never experienced sexual abuse, but I feel so sorry for this little boy. No wonder he wanted to kill himself. So I agree with the guy whose location is out of his mind. I find that funny, by the way.

Oh?

I guess that I'm the one to blame for having PTSD, after all the bullsh!t I went through in high school, with one girl gang beating the living sh!t out of me whenever I left the house, another girl trying to get in my pants to play with my d!ck, then accuse me of making her pregnant (even though I was on the other side of the state, attending college, when she finally got pregnant) and being mentally and verbally abused by a third. No wonder my parents told me I was full of sh!t when told them what happened, then they beat my fat ass for lying about those events.

My first thought without even checking the source was this has to be fake. Maybe just too atrocious to want to accept as real.

What an ignorant a**hole. I had to stop myself from saying, "What a worthless piece of garbage."

EVERYBODY has feelings, and when certain people are estimated to not be as sentient in a certain way, a rule of thumb is that they are ALWAYS more sentient in that way than others give them credit for.

The source did give me pause about posting this. The paper could have made it up, the mom could have made it up, the kid could have made it up, there is no guarentee that any article you read is not fake or more likely exaggerated to the point it might as well be fake. So I have to decide what risk do I take, the risk of posting fake news and causing unnecessary upset and hurting my credibility or the risk of bieng so fearful of fake news that I am so cautious I post practically nothing and this incident and others like this remain local news stories quickly buried.

Like I mentioned earlier this story fit a pattern of news stories coming from that particular country recently. While I also do not want to accept this as real the view described I find plausable. The current thread about Iheartless.com, to the idea that autistics were normal humans turned into a mutant by vaccines, the experiences of so many members here have one thing in common, a view of autistics having no emotions and feelings. So I took the risk of posting it with the sources as the mom and the Daily Mail in the quoted section of the article.

The NSW Teachers Federation guildelines include mandatory reporting of suspected sexual abuse:

https://www.nswtf.org.au/pages/legal-stuff.html

The teachers and principal are unlikely to get away with what they did and what they did not do. They breached their obligations under the duty of care.

He shouldn't keep his job without a doubt.

But as for being named why?

Because it's a crime to fail to protect a child in your care.

I re-read it. That's all you needed to say. You are probably right on this I think.

But we cannot be sure whether it was the principal who was complacent, though the more I think about it was the case. A teacher in that situation likely would report it to the principal. My mentality was, His attitude was horrible. But ignorance alone is not a reason for someone's name being torn to shreds.

I think we can. We have the testimony of the child in his writings and statement. What the principal said to the child was part of the abuse; he dehumanized the boy and disregarded his claim.

The intent was different, people make mistakes in some cases massively and horribly, I have seen it in many people I know. He may have thought he was helping the mother that is the thing.

We should take action against this, the man should definitely be fired. But as for exposing him, what good does it do, he has already been punished. All it does is destroy how people see him and prevent him from redeeming himself.

I am not convinced the people involved will be punished. I have posted a number of instances where the community rallies around the person(s) who abused autistic people while the autistic or their family are not believed because the abuser(s) are viewed as good people, while the autistic and their family are viewed as troublemakers who make stuff up. The USA and Australia have a similar frontier past and world view. In the USA, of course, we just elected a president in part BECAUSE he is viewed a bully who will put the troublemakers in their place.

I am not saying this will happen, plenty of communities have rallied around autistics.

I hate to be the one to gainsay - obviously this is vastly misinformed for most of the autistic population. But this may be accurate for an alexithymic autistic. I had this experience once with a male partner and had to be told that it was actually sexual abuse. Had no idea, nor did I feel anything towards it.
Obviously, this principal's ideas and actions were horrible toward the autistic child in question, and by no means should that assumption be made. Just putting it out there that in very few cases this can happen.

I'd like to twist that principal's privates off.

Every day I think people can't get any more stupid. Every day I'm proven horribly wrong.

Do you have any other links you could show me regarding Australia.