I just ran into a very disturbing face book group, that states its mission is l is to inform girls and women that a percentage, not most, of Autistic people are more likely to be rapists. So what you are saying is because I have autism I am more likely to rape woman I find attractive? They then back up this claim with a whole bunch of nonsense information.
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Some claims the group uses to back up its claim that Autistic people are more likely to be rapists:
- Autism is a disease that affects almost entirely boys; one theory for this is that Autism is an “extreme male mind.” Autistic boys are apethetic and are unable to know how another person feels, or will feel. They also become very distressed if they do not get their way.
- Autistic boys desire sex like all boys do, but boys with Autism are unable to express their emotions in ways that are meaningful to other people and have an exteme male mind. What if Kate does not want to have sex with Alex? He is rigid, apethetic, thinks everyone shares his ideas, impulsive, extremely male, and violent. Do you think Alex would accept Kate’s feelings? No, I think you know what comes next.
- Autistic boys are apethetic and are unable to know how another person feels, or will feel.
The group goes on further claiming that ‘This group does not encurage hatred of any kind’. I think that making a claim such as this is in fact pretty clear hatred.
I’m going to state this from my own personal perspective, and I encourage other autistic people to share there prospective. I have female friends who I find attractive, I have female friends that I would not mind dating – but I can’t even figure out how to ask them out (its way to socially complex for me). As some with Autism I understand pain, right, wrong, etc. I could never rape a girl I find attractive, as I know how much pain that would cause. I have trouble interpreting others feelings, but it does not make me oblivious to another’s prospective.
If you would like to look at this group yourself its located at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20379907381
Sorry if this seems half put together – I’m very upset by this.
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I so just reported that group as a hate group.
Another example of how IGNORANCE = FEAR. I hope people will take time to learn the truth about pervasive developmental disorders.
“Sorry if this seems half put together – I’m very upset by this.”
On this issue, I’m right behind you.
That groups is not even as honest as the Nazis were: at least the Nazis would have just killed us without villifying us first.
wow
Unfrikkinbelievable! I find it disappointing, disgusting and quite bloody maddening that “Some” people are Still so g.d. ignorant!
I am Right Now going to report that group as a Hate Group! Thanking Michelle B for doing that already and feeling the more who report this kind of crap the better and the better the chance to have it removed. What a pile of Ignorant crap. Imagine ..2008 and Still there are a/holes that are fearful of people who are Smarter!
Ok .. not going to continue my rant .. I’ve typed, deleted, retyped .. and suffice to say – this Really p’s me off and I am further inspired to report such nonsense. ANY group that supports hating any other group should have their own damned island.. somewhere in the mid pacific.
Oh, I know!! I think I might post in that group .. maybe invite members to join ‘my new group’: “Volunteers to Repopulate the Sun” .. I bet I get members!!! lol ..
oh and thanks for bringing this to “our” attention so we can address and hopefully stop a “little” of the b.s. from spreading ..
How about Bikini Atoll?
I know the difference between a woman and a blender:
1. I know how to turn on a blender
2. I have never been insulted by a blender
3. A blender doesn’t need any clothes
4. A blender lives on electricity
5. A blender doesn’t have a brain
6. A blender doesn’t have a heart but it has more compassion than the people on that FaceBook page
7. A blender stays where you put it
8. A blender can’t clean itself
9. You buy blenders, you don’t buy people
10. You throw away blenders, you bury people
I feel emotions and I am impacted by other people’s emotions. If I so much as make someone feel bad I’ll probably have a meltdown. I’ve made people cry before just by saying an inappropriate thing and I felt so bad I couldn’t function at all the rest of the day. I walk on eggshells trying not to even emotionally harm anyone because even THAT hurts too bad to bear. If I know something is going to hurt someone, I don’t think I could bring myself to do it. And autistic boys, unless also profoundly retarded, know that rape would hurt someone.
Just because autistic people (I said people, because there ARE autistic girls and women, we’re just diagnosed less frequently) have difficulty DEALING with emotions, it doesn’t mean we don’t have them or that we are sociopath monsters.
This BS about “extreme male mind” is part of what is keeping little autistic girls from getting diagnosed with autism. I’m a woman, I’m not extremely male anything, but I’m a diagnosed autistic. My brain just functions differently than the average brain. Stimulus of physical, mental, and emotional kinds affects me differently from the average person. I don’t believe that were I male I’d be any different. I don’t think you could even force me to knowingly hurt someone.
The link doesn’t work anymore, maybe they got removed from FaceBook?
The problem is you can’t stop this hatred and ignorance aimed against you. This kind of prejudice is way too strong and it is going to get you sooner or later. The ‘Final Solution’ is already underway.
Not saying that it’s right but unfortnately to them igorance is strength. I just thought I should warn you.
Sorry to say it but you’re end is inevitable.
And when we’re gone, there will be no one to correct your English.
Seriously, I warrant that every one of these people belongs to some group that, at some time in history or someplace in the world, was also held up by some majority as boogeyman who would certainly rape your daughter.
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