“Florida teacher SAVAGELY BEATEN unconscious by 270lb autistic student”
Kid doesn’t sound very autistic.
My youngest is a high functioning autistic. He tolerated bullying for years, not caring what any of the kids thought about him.
He only started one fight in his life. A bully had been torturing his friend all year. Finally, 3 days before the end of the school year, he told the bully if he ever touched his friend again, my son would destroy him.
The bully slapped my son’s friend in the back of the head.
My son grabbed this kid, yanked him out of his desk, slammed him against the wall, put his hands around the kid’s neck and lifted him off the ground, choking him.
Everyone was shocked. Two other students pulled my son off him but my son broke free and proceeded to wail away on this kid.
Both kids were suspended.
Summer started early that year.
People gave him a wide berth after that.
If this young man is a low functioning autistic, they can have zero impulse control (like a toddler). They need to be in schools for special needs students if they are repeatedly violent without provocation or cause.
The system should have intervened after the first attack. Now, he’s looking at serious jail time.
Then you don’t know much about autism
“Autism” has been widely expanded to include even minor discomfort with change. This does help people who do genuinely have Autism be recognized as such and receive assistance where needed, but it also blankets people who don’t truly have Autism, and who simply exhibit some behaviors commonly associated with it. This sounds as if it may be that, but if he is Autistic, those behaviors should have been mitigated at a much younger age. It’ll be nearly impossible to break them now that he’s an adult.
My wife says half the special needs students are the result of poor parenting rather than any inborn disability.
Agreed. If he was really autistic, he would be in a special needs facility instead of a prison. Behavior problems sttemming from lack of discipline have been passed off as special needs cases for years because you can use that to make the problem someone else’s.
When I was a kid, the people that lived across the street from us had a nephew that came to visit. We were told to “be nice to him, because he has hyperactivity disorder.” Well to us kids, he just struck us as being a spoiled rotten brat. After the second time of his throwing a tantrum, several of us kids gave him an attitude adjustment that came with a free black-eye and busted lip. He came back the next day and acted like a different kid. We allowed him to play with us for the rest of his visit. We parted as friends.
Sometimes you just have to call someone out on their behavior and, if they choose to continue with the same, you adjust adjust it for them.
We need to know more information about his history. Autistic people do explode when things are taken away. I saw my autistic nephew put his head through a glass table. Is he truly autistic or is he just a pink?
Everybody is autistic just like everyone on death row is retarded.