autistic attacked on street.

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i got paid DLA (disbility living allowance) and was going to go buy a cheap laptop.
i went to the bus stop and had a major meltdown (beating self in legs and head with fists) .
but there wasnt anyone around and i manged to distract myself playing on 3DS the bus came so i got on it, and was walking to the crossing to cross on to the main street i only cross the street when its on green man, so i pressed the button and waited. then i looked to the left and seen a gang of young pepole about my age maybe older coming around the coner , they come up to the stop next to me so i ignored them and looked the other way, i was wearing my ear defenders to keep calm, the kind of ear defenders you see bulders use. so i was just waiting for green man like i said, and then i felt my ear defenders being sharply swept off my left ear and they all laughed at me so i picked them up, one of them from the gang was waling around behind me suspiciously so i went up to him when he came closer and hit him on the back ( 2 times, not that hard) and when he turned around i said "you knocked my ear defenders im autistic you knocked my ear defneders!) so then someone behind me shouted "oi man dont hit my brother! " (by the way i should probably mention the person i hit dosnt actualy have any brothers, as the police confirmed) so then i said im autistic one of you knocked my ear defenders! (off my head and it hurt and i started panicing cos i couldnt block out noise anymore) so then he started crossing the street and turned around and punched me in the face nearly breaking my nose,so i just sat on the floor and screamed and cried, it was about 10 minutes before anyone tried to help me.
the police agreed with my mum about me saying im autistic and that they shouldnt have hit me,and that it was perfectly fine for me to react and hit one of them for smacking my ear defenders off my head. the police even said if they didnt want me to do that they shouldnt of done that in the first place. it was actualy confirmed that the person i hit was a part of the group. and alot of locals were saying they just got kicked out of a pub and were more than likley very drunk.
they are also checking the "cctv" cameras at the pub and where it happend to try and find the person that did it fulther.
i even have "autistic" neatly taped to one of the ear defenders. so pepole understand.
the police said i did nothing wrong and it was perfectly understandable as to how i reacted.
and the fact that the person that hit me was drunk out of his mind...
the police are sorting it out and the person will be going to "court" as its called.

Should really use military grade ear plugs, they only insert into your ear. Instead of large work ear defenders.

And DLA is not meant to be used for getting a laptop? or you mean u where using it to go get a laptop with other money?

Well, if you didn't hit him he probably wouldn't have attacked you, but he was asking for it.

Maybe they need the laptop to help with aspects of their disability. In which case that is what the DLA is for...stuff that helps and services they need.

Ie Internet connection if they are housebound and cannot get out to do shopping in person on a regular basis etc.

Well of course you should have hit the bastard for that.....I would have a hard time not doing the same myself, except I would more likely have headphones with music in. I probably would not tell them I'm autistic I'd probably say something more along the lines of 'Get the hell away from me before I lose it and start acting all insane.

I'm thirteen, and I've had a similar experience, except the police were no help to me.

I live in the middle of a forest, and went for my normal walk, except I was seen by two men who decided I wasn't 'normal' when they looked at me. I had my shoulder weight on, and I was barefoot (which apparently was weird even though grass is soft) and a paper hat. I appreciate that wasn't exactly their idea of 'normal' but they tried to talk to me.

I tried to be polite, and I spoke to them, but I was extremely cautious, because 1) it's always difficult to talk to people and 2) they were two strange men I had never seen before. I should point out I was twelve years old then. It was exactly two weeks until my birthday.

They decided they should call the police, and did so without telling me or asking if I was OK. When I saw the police, I panicked, because I was frightened they would get me (I'd always had nightmares about being taken away by the police and institutionalised or something) and the siren noise and high visibility jackets were just a massive sensory overload. I ran away, and was dragged to the ground by a very large male officer. I got up, and began to run again, and then when he grabbed my arm I hit out at it to make him let go. He didn't. I was screaming and crying when two large female officers grabbed me legs, and the three of them handcuffed me and pushed me to the ground.

I was dragged to a police car where I was subjected to abuse: 'Oh, yeah, turn on the waterworks, we've never seen that before,' and 'It's stupid kids like you wasting the force's time,' on my way home, where I was unceromoniously handed back to my family, and told very reluctantly the charges against me had been dropped (they had booked me for assaulting a police officer, although they had done more harm to me than I to them, or him, because I did nothing I haven't stated).

That was last July. I still flinch at siren sounds and freeze when I see police officers or cars. It has made me so frightened, and even less confidant than I was before. I still have scars on my feet from where they dragged me roughly, and a cut on my finger got infected and spread to the rest of my hand, and still hasn't heeled properly.

Because an 5'4'' autistic girl was enough of a public danger to warrant three huge, abusive, and cruel police officers, an arrest, scarring, and long lasting psychological damage.

[Moved from General Autism Discussion to The Haven]

*hugs nintendofan*

My heart goes out to you Nintendofan. There are c***s everywhere, don't let it affect you.

Sorry to hear this nintendofan, and hope you recover well from this attack.

i'm happy the cop not only sided w/ you but tiped his hat, too many times a situation like that can be ignored or the wrong person harrased like in A BEAUTIFUL_MESS event.
here in the states we have an increasing prob. w/ cops butting into situations that don't warrent them.

If you hit someone, you have to be prepared to fight. You started a fight you couldn't win since you were outnumbered.