My own autism doesn't count though

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So this old woman came over to our house where mum is resting after a long week to shout at her and tell her to move her car. I could hear all of this and was very stressed for my mum who's my favourite person, works really hard and my own autism means I have extreme empathy so when things happen to her it feels like it's happening to me.
Mum told me to stay out of it and that she wasn't moving her car. She told the old woman that she wasn't doing anything unusual.
The old woman went away, tried to call the police who wouldn't do anything because we weren't breaking the law. When that didn't work, she came and told mum to move it because otherwise her autistic son in law would have a meltdown about having to change where he parked.
Mum acquiesced because this guy might have had a meltdown.
Which is fine of course but, if that was me having a meltdown nothing would be changed apart from I'd be told off by mum (I'm 30) and ostricised by everyone. Because this guy hasn't worked out what I worked out a long time ago (how to keep the violence verbal and try to avoid meltdowns in the first place) everyone is tiptoeing around him. And because he's a six foot bloke with a history of violence who could beat someone up.
It's just such double standards. I wish the old woman had come around politely and asked politely instead of shouting at mum and said 'I know it's unusual but my son in law's autistic and has to park in the exact same spot every week'. That would have been reasonable but this family are just full of violence and shouting.

True.
I would like to be someone with a history of calling the cops though. I just don't have the guts.
I mean come on, the bloke is older than me. If his mother or father couldn't get through to him to stop being violent when he was a kid/teen, and if he isn't bothering to do it/able to do it himself then either he needs to get arrested or sectioned cos violent adults shouldn't be out in public.
I'm just fed up of every neighbourhood we go to we're the ones that get bullied. I mean me and my family. We're obviously different and people don't like us.
And I know what it is to be autistic and feel the need to be violent. When I feel that way, I go to a quiet room by myself and scream and shout. I don't hurt people. On the way, I might shout at someone esp if they're blocking my path but I never lay my hands on anyone. And I'm a short female, I just know 1 I shouldn't do that if I can possibly help it and 2 if an adult is physically violent to someone they get sent away. This guy isn't learning any lessons or if it's a medical thing (if so I suspect either more autistic than me or some other issue), being helped to solve his mental issues at all.

remembering that time when i was accused of discriminating against ND people. me. discriminating. (there was a fraud claiming to have "brain damage", i strongly suspect they dont, in the first place, just using it to be a f*****g holy cow). so i get lectured about respect for ND minorities. me. known, open aspergerian. ya. because i didnt jump around that likely-fraud guy like others do (and they never jump around me, btw). so ya thats how ppl think, how they react. the one who yells louder and is better at attention whorring gets everything, while shier person allways gets shoved off. thats how it works, sadly. im sorry it happened to u too.i strongly relate. hold on and try to not let it get to u. cheers.

Look on the bright side:

You should be proud of how you have learned to conduct yourself and happy that you don't have to live with a family like the one you described, it sounds awful.

Call me paranoid but this sounds fishy to me , do you have any evidence that your neighbour has autism?

TUF. When you experience a stressful situation. The chemical energy released in your body must be vented otherwise it does harm long term. This energy is stored in your legs, arms and neck and vocal cord.

No I don't, just rumour from other neighbours. Who simply said 'gets violent' rather than any detail. And who are the old woman's friends.
How do you mean fishy? Do you think the old woman made it up to get the parking space? I thought that and said that to mum but mum said no the other neighbours said it too.
I think if he's autistic then it's not his only thing. Either that or autism looks very different from person to person and it's very severe. I struggled with violent outbursts when I was 7 but got it under control in my teenage years. Simply being an adult or teen who's allowed to wander off when I feel like it's coming on helps/helped.
And also, I don't know if it's autism or something else but surely if an adult is going around having uncontrollable physically violent outbursts like that they have a carer and can't drive? It's weird to me.
I haven't even seen this guy so for all I know he doesn't exist and she wanted the carpark space for herself. But she was very annoyed so I don't think that bit's true.
My stepdad (suspected aspie, very shy type who doesn't normally get involved with neighbours but sexism dictates that men talk to men) offered to talk to the guy, come to an agreement etc, and that was when she said 'you can't do that he's autistic and gets violent' and mum said she's heard something like that from someone else too.
Hm Jimmy that's really interesting. I always saw it as having a meltdown just the need to shout and scream. Which is why I try to avoid doing that by not bombarding my senses. And yeah I need to try something like that singing rather than swearing and shouting how I feel at the world.

I don't see autism really being a factor in this. If the person was just a big bully who throws temper tantrums, the result would be the same.

There's pathology in that woman.

Most people just don't conduct themselves in that way.

People just don't call the cops for stupid reasons. There's something amiss in that person.

I know you're trying to make a point. That you're entitled to the parking space, too. And....yes, you are. This is a public street.

But, if I were you, I would just seek another space other than that particular space. Saves lots of hassle.