Asperger's, the Law, and POLICE

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I was taken in by the cops for questioning in May. I was with a friend, we went to eat, his friends called him and asked him to join them for a couple of minutes. Barely a few minutes passed when around 20 cops appeared, nailed us to the ground, and started searching us. Apparently, those guys were smoking pot before we appeared, and the neighbours complained. We tried to bribe them, but failed because the circle inspector was there, making the situation worse. We were taken in, held for four hours. I was out in a few minutes, after they called my Dad. Wish I called him sooner. My friend and I were let out as they found us not guilty. The other guys had to pay a lot to bribe themselves out. During the whole experience, I totally panicked, and didn't know what to do. I tried explaining to them about my AS, but they just whacked me with their batons.

I'm so stupid. Not only did I have the phone number of the MP (he's my Dad's friend), the assistant inspector-general of police is also my uncle's friend. Also, my friend's father is a congress party leader. Stupid, stupid, stupid. The more I think of it, the more I wish I made a couple of calls back then. >_<

Dealing with police involves interaction with a different set of rules, and AS just complicates things more. The police might misinterpret autistic behaviors as uncooperative or evasive if they don't know what to look for. If you can talk and drive a car, they might assume wrongly that you're perfectly normal and that the normal rules of behavior should be applied to you.

Police do things that are weird, like ask redundant questions, shine a light in your eyes and ask you to do weird things like stand on one foot because they are looking out for a list of specific things. The nature of their duty sometimes places police in conflict with people, too, and they have to protect themselves.

got only pulled once by this day when driving it werent bad they just chekked was i drunk because my rigth arm was shaking

i have been annoyed by police many times.

my behaviour in public is not a fluent style that people can selectively ignore.

for example, when i walk through malls, if i notice a crack i some wall, i will stop and look at it.

i wonder what design flaw in the blue print of the mall resulted in this crack.

then i look around at the ceiling to see how the place is built, and what stresses are chanelled where, and then i get tapped on the shoulder by security guards.

sg: g'day mate. how's it going (a question to test my lucidity, but i am autistic and fail it for a different reason).

me: sorry? how's what going?
sg: mate what are you doing in here?
me: erm, i am going to ahhm "powerhouse electronics".
sg: why are you going there?
me: just to look around.

i seem so dishonest because i can not look in their eyes and be like they are to make them relieved that i am "normal"

they have somehow pressed some button on their belt, and the police arrive, and take me and my briefcase down to the station to check me out.


in my briefcase, they find lots of questionable stuff.
like PH testing kits, and electronic circuits that i was studying.

i had plasticizsers, and acrylic resins as well that i could mix with things i found interesting in my wanderings.

i found it very hard to explain.
they wondered whether i had sinister intentions.

i seemed very dumb, and i had stuff that dumb people would not carry.

it is hard for them to let you go free when they can not understand you.

also, i had a series of magnetrons set up in an experiment room ( i wanted to see if i could annihilate particles with hyper resonance through progressive harmonic dimensional saturation of oscillation.)

i was building the mechanisms and testing their alignments and sensitivities when the police turned up at my door.
they wanted to know what is being done in the room with the bright lights in it.

they seized all the equipment and had it analyzed and returned it to me later as junk.

they went away.
my spirit of inquiry also went away because i could not be bothered doing all the groundwork again.

it is sad we live in a world where criminals are.

and terrorists are also a reason that everyone is paranoid.

I've been pulled over by the cops twice to be tested for alcohol. One was like where they just check every car driver leaving town for being drunk, and one where there was a cop bus driving behind me showing a pull over sign.
None of that gave me any trouble and they were friendly to me.
I've never even gotten 1 speeding ticket, even though i rarely keep to the speed limit.
Many people i know get them monthly and see them just as a standard monthly expense.
I get robbed enough with our insanely high taxes to want to hand over more of my money to them lol.
I wish they concentrated more on catching criminals instead of hiding in the bushes to give out speeding tickets.

WHOAH...

Okay... I admit to getting a bit heavy-handed here and I caught myself about to turn my computer into a projectile. I didn't come here to have a snit, I just came here for your shared experiences pertaining to this subject.

Anyway... let's continue.