How many of you have suffered extreme discrimination?

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Aspiestar924
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21 Jan 2013, 8:40 pm

I knew someone who's boyfriend was abandoned by his family a few years before they met because they got tired of his personality and his Asperger's- this was when he was 16 and he was left homeless.

I've also known people rejected in similar ways by their families etc. just because they refuse to deal with autism.

Is this a common experience?

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21 Jan 2013, 9:45 pm

What was wrong with his personality that they despised?

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21 Jan 2013, 10:13 pm

redrobin62 wrote:

What was wrong with his personality that they despised?

I think it's like homosexuals and transsexuals in the past, people hate the 'different'.

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22 Jan 2013, 1:15 am

What was so "different" about him that they hated?

Aspiestar924
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22 Jan 2013, 10:04 pm

redrobin62 wrote:

What was so "different" about him that they hated?

I really can't say what in particular they hated; I think maybe they thought someone who did not have the same social capacities as the majority of the human race was so profoundly different and they refused to treat him as human.

What I found appalling was that their other child, the guy's sister, got a lot of expensive things like having a new computer and holidays to Africa paid for by the rich parents yet the son was abandoned.m

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23 Jan 2013, 7:02 am

It's very common unfortunately

People think a person's family should always be automatically on their side but in many families it just isn't the case

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23 Jan 2013, 9:40 am

*raises hand*

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23 Jan 2013, 11:26 am

Yes

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