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

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Deccan Chronical

What the f**k??

Sorry.

But what the f**k??

I can't even.

As an aspie and a mum of aspies you can imagine what I'd like to do to this guy.

Shows how completely lacking in knowledge of autism the Australian general public is when the people we're trusting our children too have no f*****g idea.
I'm embarrassed as an Australian.

How f*****g ignorant.

Now there's one guy I wouldn't mind seeing gunned down by an autistic.

Too much?

Well, that's a way to start off a Wednesday.

But in all seriousness, this pisses me off on more levels than how many the world's highest skyscraper has. How clueless are these people?

What.

If this is true, it's not only clueless but damaging on a level I can't even....

I noticed that the article mentioned The Daily Mail as its source though. It's not a very reliable source.

This is the source article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4309230/Boy-abused-three-weeks-told-lucky-autism.html

It's true that the Daily Fail is notorious.
But, at the same time as someone who went through the Australian school system for a while, I find nothing in that report too unbelievable.

Patches of the Australian school system have serious issues with 'winking' at bullying(or did back when I was in it).

Yeah, in my experience teachers and administrators and principals in Australian schools have zero understanding of ASD. In fact on many occasions I have witnessed such teachers encourage and join in the bullying of ASD students.

I agree with the above statements about The Daily Racist. I can't stand that website, it spews out some absolute crap and then guillable people believe it. It's likely one of the worst news sources the UK provides.

Since there will be some truth to this article, I wouldn't be surprised by it in the least. Even people in the UK don't grasp autism correctly at all, even if you mention it 80% of the time people are more likely to be like "whats autism?" so I doubt it's even recognised that much. It needs a more mainstream media appearance for people to get it, even then though I'd be worried about what kind of things they'd put out to the masses, it could be inaccurate framing us to be bad.

I just hate how a lot of autistic people are so vulnerable like this, it's such a shame and there's not proper measures in place to prevent anything like this from happening at all. Part and parcel of the reason why I'd never want to bring more life into this horrid planet.

Obviously an idiot. And he made it to Principal?

What the f***.

And why use 'friend' for the abuser? Clearly not a friend at all but more likely someone the kid thought was a friend?

The assumptive ignorance from that principle is sickening

It might be a coincidence but a substantial majority of articles I have linked to describing abusive treatment of autistics have come out of Australia lately. I am not purposely trying to shame Australia, these type articles for whatever reason has come up when I google "autism"

Hopefully, worldwide exposure will change things as with the recent case where a government decision to expel an immigrant teen because he was autistic was reversed.

The ignorance is strong with this one. This shows we still have a long way to go in educating people. Pathetic.