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.
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.
Wait, in what community should I even post it?
I searched for AMA communities. I only found one: [email protected]. 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.
Ok, I probably wont.
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.
