best and worst countries for autism awareness?

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I'd say things have improved in the US dramatically in the last 50 years!! 50 years ago we had no special education, no accommodations, no Americans with Disabilities Act,....most children with disabilities were institutionalized as soon as their disability was discovered... Sure it is far from perfect, but like one of the earlier posters mentioned, this is nothing like the Eastern bloc!

Mars has a higher autism population compared to Earth. Many have autistic tendencies but are high functioning. So i'd have to go with Mars being the most friendly since autism is so common there.

The worst? Not sure.

I honestly think that the best place for being artistic it's not in the United States and definitely not the post Soviet Union Nations since in the USSR you be put in something called A Dor dorm or what it is translated into English as an insane asylum falf house for parents who couldn't deal with their children anymore.

The best for people with Autism is actually in Europe, specifically the Scandinavian Nations since their people are very highly intellectual and people will not view people who are different as being intellectually challenged just because they are a bit different.

In the United States however discrimination against people with Autism is becoming more and more severe. Just last week a caretaker was shot by a stray bullet which was actually aimed at the man with autism for playing with his toy truck!

How much more close minded in our society get to try to kill a autistic man just for playing with the damn toy truck!

Also in 1995 Paul Modrowski an autistic man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for basically no reason just for being himself since the prosecutor the judge and the jury found his autistic traits to be proof of guilt since his diagnosis was not known in the courtroom.

A good friend of mine named David had a meltdown in the middle of a New York City street after getting attacked by a group of people for stimming!

Because of his meltdown he was arrested and charged with assault and when they discovered his slurred speech due to his autism he was also charged with public intoxication!

The police officer who arrested him told him to plead guilty once you realize that the man who he had arrested was not drunk but it was actually disabled since he knew that the man was likely Global due to his perceived the lower intellectual abilities probably just to get his ass out of trouble.

He pled guilty and was sentenced to several years at Rikers Island and while he was there he was often beaten up by prison guards and inmates who even ganged up on him due to his autism and social shyness.

Meanwhile his mom is looking for him and reported him missing after calling the police. The police notified that her son was at Rikers Island on a assault charge. She notified the police that her son was autistic and hired a lawyer to get him out of Rikers.

He was given a new trial and a special needs judge was appointed for his case who threw out his case exonerated him and sent him to Creedmoore Mental facility for treatment due to the trauma he sustained during his arrest and imprisonment.

David once again lives with his mom and husband taking his medications regularly and the cause of what happened was actually when he went to the hospital for a flu they skipped one of his dosages which caused them to have such an emotional breakdown when he was attacked. Honestly I don't think we ever be medicated medication is poison the only way anyone should ever be medicated as if someone is suicidal or is severely depressed autism is not a disability but a gift and I'm proud of having it.

When I was in school though, I was severely bully to the point of sustaining injuries both physical and mental and the worst part was that I was not only bullied cursed and teased and beaten, But being Cruise director in the inclusion program who saw all the bullying going on not only did not stop the bullying but she often punish me for "starting the altercation" when she knew well that I had nothing to do with them starting with me and she only did that because I demanded too much that I have Justice and she did not like that I was on her case for letting the bullies get away with it.

One day it came to a head, on Tuesday February 15th 2005 I got into a fight with a bully after he attacked me forum is taking his jacket for mind when we went to class so I didn't even put on his jacket I was just looking at it to make sure it was mine, he didn't like that I mistook his jacket for mine which is why he attacked me.

Because they included the Rector felt that I started a fight by mistake in his jacket she would not let me go outside for recess or let me use the computer which is the only thing that preoccupied mind shattered mind from all of the abuse I was going through at home and at school.

After the bully left the classroom to go to his other classes I tried to destroy his jacket however I stopped myself at the last second before I get anything for fear that he was going to find out and attacked me once more
would that she was going to give me a much harsher punishment like call my parents or take away my privileges for the whole week.

As it was time for dismissal after 8th. Just as I was about to go down the stairs the bully ran up to me push me down the stairs and I fell down have a landing upstairs to the cold hard marble floor on the landing below. The fall cause me to hurt my back and still to this day over 11 and a half years later my lower back are still occasionally flares up from the attack.

Because against the designer of the inclusion director who attempted to cover up the incident as she always did by going to the principal's office I disobeyed her and I was given another punishment of loss of computer privileges for the next day.

She also promised me that she was going to deal with it and that she was going to speak to the principal on my behalf however I didn't believe her and I came home complaining to my parents about what happened and that I told them didn't want to go to school the next day, but I had no choice and even though my back was still in a lot of pain I had to trudge to the school with an injured back.

What I got to school I discovered that the bully was not only in school, but he had absolutely no loss of Privileges and was using the computer as if nothing happened, yet I had no computer privileges for the rest of the day because the day before I try to uncover the directors attempted cover-up of the incident.

I spent most of my time in school going from class to class with my Para who is really the only friend I had at school since no one really like me due to my extremely pessimistic attitude obviously due to the bullying.

The bully like me was also in the inclusion program but he was not there due to an intellectual disability but due to behavior issues.

This is what pisses me off the most is that people with disabilities like myself are put into a situation where they have to deal with constant abuse and bullying by people who just can't control their actions and by other people who cannot understand them.

It became so bad that at one point I tried to commit suicide by electrocuting myself. I even subconsciously now that I realize it try to provoke my step father when he was abusing me biker singing out in an attempt to either get up to hurt me really bad or just get him in trouble.

I was always a quiet and shy kid, however I just couldn't take the bullying anymore and whenever somebody abuse me at home or at school I struck back of the abuser or the bully I was always a client I kid, however I just couldn't take the boiling anymore and whatever somebody abused me at home or at school I struck back the abuser or the bully.

By the time I was thirteen years old I had a no-nonsense attitude about anyone hitting me. My motto was what comes around goes around and I hit everybody who abused me even my abusive stepfather I no longer feared him but I actually hated him to the point that I picked up a kinfe on him one day when he was beating me up.

My life was pretty rough, but I know of a lot of autistic people that had it rougher than me I just gave a very detailed description and I am also thinking of writing a book about the Discrimination, bullying and abuse that I went through when I was younger. The book won't be available for many years as I am still just thinking about it

Where I live, their are many many visa workers for tech companies. Almost all upper middle management positions.

So, those folks have some money and status in their home countries. The ones with young ASD kids fight like hell to get to the US, even for a little bit. Their countries don't do much early childhood intervention. And many of the schools just warehouse the children.

Also American have their own bit of horribleness, but I have never seen whole families actively avoided or bread winners fired because their child has ASD. In many countries, the ASD child brings shame on the whole family. The parents may now not get promoted at work. The siblings have much smaller pool of dating/marriage partners because of that ASD child.

Families with ASD get ignored or marginalized here too. Most of the time the reason is people not understanding or coping with the behaviors of that specific child. Other countries, your whole family has bad karma, cursed, wrongs in the past that manifest itself into autism. Better to avoid those people than risk bring that upon yourself and family.

I'm guessing the UK has better supportive services for Aspergers level individuals, but people complain it isn't universal throughout the country. The level of help varies where you live.

There is a dangerous situation in the USA as well I feel coming about in the internet. Autistics are the new sociopaths people must beware....yeah we are responsible for so many disasters and genocides. This isn't just a bunch of people pointing and calling you stupid or ret*d, but that aspergers is not a mental disorder nor developmental disorder but a fraction of society that only brings misery to others. Anytime someone says the word "empathy", I suspect this movement. (But I won't pretend we all have perfect cognitive empathy, but many of us have a spirit, a conscience, a capability to love.) Or whenever someone says "hurr hurr Austism used to be called "Autistic psychopathy" you are all useless monsters! hurr hurr" ignoring the fact that the meaning of the word had a different meaning back then (homosexuality was called psychopathic and so was schizophrenia).