Let’s start with me: The person posting this just doesn’t know or acknowledge, that autistic people aren’t violent (as sociopaths also aren’t). I don’t even understand this. The author actively sabotages autistic rights movements to gain a small advantage in sociopath advocacy.
Let me add something: In my diagnosis, I was considered aggressive, but I never physically or verbally hurt anyone until i was around nine years old.
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The link isn’t working for me. Firefox says that the connection was reset.
Hopefully this works: http://www.sociopathworld.com/2009/04/violence-sociopathy-vs-autism.html?m=1
Thanks! Yeah, I impulsively rejected that stance, since in my experience and from what I know about autism, I would have assumed lower rates of crime among us. Particularly, autistic people tend to be more justice-oriented and rules-based than others, so I would assume that would lead to lower rates of crime. However, I DDG’d to see if I could find anything. According to this Psychology Today article that reports on study, autism actually served as a protective factor among those with conduct disorder and ADHD. This literature review also points to lower rates of crime among the autistic population.
As an officially diagnosed autistic and a self diagnosed narcisist, I can’t agree more. Like autism, sociopathy is also a spectrum. As a sociopath you can be a dangerous person or a complete pacifist. I know a lot of people, who I would consider dangerous, but I wouldn’t consider sociopaths. On the other hand, I also met some sociopaths, who I wouldn’t consider dangerous.
Interesting! If you do an AMA, I would love to know.
Ok, I probably wont.
Wait, in what community should I even post it?
I searched for AMA communities. I only found one: !askmeanything@lemmy.ca. It doesn’t seem active tho. You could try there as long as you’re okay with possible disappointment. Otherwise, I don’t have any other suggestions.
I think it would be better if I posted it in some kind of autism community (the autism community here or the new .place community), as they are more active and include more autistic people.
Here you go, but don’t have high expectations, as it isn’t a very popular topic.
Even she quoted this:
The chairman of Trudy Steuernagel’s department rose at her memorial service to proclaim, “Autism doesn’t equal violence.” And this probably is mathematically correct: Autism does not always equal violence.
I want to see if there is anything else Sky and Andrew could have. I also want to see what kind of therapies, like if behavioral therapy was involved.
