Cop Out.

 

 

Been a really hard few days trying to process everything regarding that incident in Leeds this week where an Autistic teen was brutally (yes really) harassed and manhandled by the police for the heinous crime of being a wee bit tipsy and saying a police officer "looked like her lesbian nana" and how it feels as an Autistic parent.

A group of children, including Autistic ones in a lovely Mental Deficiency Institution (1956).

 

  

Over 60 years since the first medical mention of Autism in the UK and here's where we are. 

I really don't have the words, we're seen as absolutely nothing to the majority of folk.

 

Absolutely not a lesbian grandmother on Thursday.

 

Seriously it's fucking terrifying - A says she's a lesbian and gets really excited if she sees what she thinks is another lesbian when we're out as she feels like she's 'seen' or belongs...

E does that (very Autistic) thing of calling everyone 'she' (me, Ro, Paul McCartney etc) because that's her default setting and now according to 'the law' they both now can be arrested for 'hate crimes'.

Brilliant.

I think it hit harder than the usual Autistic hate bollocks tho' as a few years back we had the police involved with C when he was falsely accused of assault by a teacher when he was 13. 

I mean who could have guessed that if you decided to force an Autistic child who likes open spaces and running when stressed into a corner for an entire lesson that they might, just might, try to push passed you to escape?

Luckily the police were brilliant and actually reprimanded the teacher.

But it shouldn't even have gotten that far, staff working with any vulnerable group should have adequate (or even actual) training.

Oh yes and some fucking empathy.

I never, ever get political (especially not here) but to every organisation and school and college and workplace pushing the whole 'Be Kind' agenda this is on you.

Hope you're fucking proud.

Better watch out tho' I've already been ostracized for being Autistic with an opinion.

Maybe we should really just sit down and be quiet.