Reporting people with Aspergers to the police?

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I know what you mean. It will make me think twice about being so open about my condition in real life.

Most people with Aspergers also have NLD, so it could be a good route to safe disclosure if you really need accommodations, including social accommodations, with something, even if you don't technically have it.

If you've learned not to act weird (hopefully you have), then you could use this as your "disclosure" with your dates also, to explain your slowness at certain things. This goes even if you don't have NLD because, to the outside observer, it's hard to tell the difference. Saying "I have NLD, so I can't read facial expressions well, make eye contact, and I get lost" is totally plausible even if you are HFA or aspie.

Don't worry, he's just one person out of many. He's probably just trolling, anyway. Most of the comments there indicate a far different perception.

I dread this whole thing descending into a witch hunt for people with aspergers or just eccentic people in general. The general poulation of the earth are ignorant and hasty to jump to conclusions, epsecially when the media gives them the inspiration to.

If such a thing existed I would jump at the chance to join a community for aspergers people, along the lines of how the Amish do things. Though of course we would still have technology past the times of the 1600s NTs are just too much to have to deal with sometimes.

The American public loves to stereotype, either we are intellectually disabled or Insane. However, they fail to realize that "Insane" is a legal term for someone who has been declared mentally incompetent by a judge.

Last edited by PM on 17 Dec 2012, 5:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

What the heck? I fully understand if the guy did something wrong and this other guy had to ring the police but if it was just because he was acting weird shakes head it goes to show how people still do not understand or have any idea about AS.

My job is tangentially related to law enforcement and I have spoken with police officers on occasion about frivolous calls on their tip line. Thankfully the police are well accustomed to that sort of report and use a triage approach to separating out legitimate complaints from ridiculous ones. They are far too busy with real emergencies to humour stupid reports from idiots. A phone operator receiving a call along the lines of, "there is an autistic child I know who behaves very strangely, i am concerned," would ask if the person is A) currently in the process of committing an illegal act, B) is actively threatening to commit an illegal act either at this time or in the future, C) is acting erratically in a way that suggests he may be an immediate risk to himself or to others. If it's 'no' to all of those questions the police will politely take your report but will not send an officer out to investigate.

What we don't know in this story is what the kid said.

AS or not, I'm sick and f*****g tired of hearing people after a shooting say "Well he was talking about doing it, but I didn't take him seriously."

It's going to become a fine line to tow.

That's really precious. This so called "do gooder" is conducting a witch hunt on some innocent kid on the basis they are acting "weird".
This coming from a person who believes in a mythical bearded hebrew diety that lives in mythical place called "heaven".

Before you Judge, find out what he said.

Someone reported a "Suspicious Person" to the police in a town near to Newtown. He turned out to be a man carrying an umbrella on his way to work.

I shudder to think what would have happened to the man if the police had actually seen him twirling is unfurled brumby or propping it against his shoulder.

I just got rediagnosed with ADHD instead of assbugers
CU guys later

There are a lot of scary things that people post on the comments thread of a news article.

Unrelated to asperger's, a student at my university died. There was an article about it. The things that a few people wrote in the comments section of the article were horrific and I won't dignify them by repeating them.

The point is, some people are pretty ignorant but I can't lose faith in all of humanity and worry, THOUGH, at the time I was quite mad.

Most people I tell, I tell them about NVLD, sometimes I say it's "like Aspergers" but maybe I'll leave that out. But I have NVLD, though. To be honest, my NVLD causes more problems than the Aspergers, I'd be perfectly cool with being as socially awkward as I am now (extremely) if I had good visual spatial skills and organization.

judge what? this?

**It's worth reporting this kid to authorities now that I know how dangerous his disorder can be.**

Sounds pretty ignorant to me...

This disgusts me so much, you don't even know. It won't end there either, our freedom and rights are at risk, and I for one won't stand by and let people usurp my rights and freedom just because I was born with a condition that I didn't ask for. Such bs.