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.
Re: 23 - thanks for the post. Informative and a nice change from the ignorant and low intellect posts on this thread.
“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.”
That’s part of the problem. Too many special needs schools have been shut down and their students “main streamed” into ones that aren’t able deal with the issues they bring.
Your youngest stood up for a friend against a bully? Good for him!
Some people (esp. on the left) don’t get sometimes the only appropriate response to violence is superior violence.
Examples:
(1) I was a skinny nerd all through middle school and high school. What did not show is I was actually very strong. Got bullied a lot in middle school until I asked my Dad if it was Ok if I took the head bully down. He said yes (Dad served) and added the school better not punish me if I did or they’d deal with him (my Dad is a pretty imposing guy both physically and mentally). Next day I kicked the bully’s ###. Never got bullied again. No punishment from the school, either.
Shame your youngest was punished. That is just plain wrong.
(2) A friend (kind of girlfriend) defended herself from a campus area rapist. The scum did not know she was a Marine who had seen combat (technically she was in a non-combat role but the bad guys didn’t get the memo). That ended how it should: scum in the hospital, she OK (albeit a bit upset).
(3) Israel vs. Hamas.
Got lots more but think that makes the point.
Just my opinion.
He's only facing serious jail time because the attack was caught on video, and the video went viral.
Two other special ed students attacked people in the same school system, and they were hardly punished at all: