Why do people think ASD = criminal

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Diagnosed Aspergers.

Ive had 2 meltdowns post covid, one was after checking myself into a psych ward - there were about half a dozen staff people in the watchbooth-office thingee doing a shift change.

I wanted a pen to write down some things I wanted to tell a shrink that I was afraid I would forget when I got to see one.

after a few minuites nobody came out of the office thingee, so I started jesturing in front of a window, as a knock seemed more interuptive.

they did not respond so I started jesturing more enthusiastically, and at this point I felt ignored when they did not respond, so I had a meldown, a psuedosiezure on the ground.

even though nobody was close to me, now they feel it is time to get back to work, and drag me into a padded room, and lock the door.

after they were done I said "I just wanted a pen"

one guy said "dont be a baby, just ask"

the same guy who said this came back and apologised about 5 mins later, and I apologized to him.

which brings up the question, if that is how a decent man responds, what could I have expected from a mean man?

the next one was in public, and I attracted hecklers.

ps - these meldowns that go full psuedoseisure started when I was 48 years old, and often happen when Im in shock at the coldness of staff for services of homeless and mentally so called ill.

They seem to me clearly PTSD, but my PTSD is clearly a result of my autism/add.

oh, the one in the psych ward may have been started with autism, I cant understand why they couldn't figure out I wanted to ask them something.

The problem is that there are people with ASD that have ADHD, Distributive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders as well, clear communication is needed.

According to an August 2021 book by a Washington DC political correspondent who is autistic the news media bears a substantial portion of the responsibility for leading the public to have that attitude.

Book is:
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Hardcover – August 3, 2021
by Eric Garcia

I just finished reading it. I'm going to call it information packed and quite good overall.

From Amazon:

What if the general public is saying that there has to be a link between some kind of rare Pervasive Developmental Disorder and criminal behavior?

I am sure that people with high intelligence, from the general public, about this topic will understand that numerous studies point out that most people with ASD are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators.

Even some scientists argue that since diagnostic criteria for Pervasive Developmental Disorders became more broad, there has to be some kind of rare neurodevelopental disorder that causes autistic traits and psychopathic traits, and that is exactly what the general public is trying to talk about, and it's informally known as Criminal Autistic Psychopathy.

We should at least try to understand both sides of the story ten times more without getting our emotions the best of us, and try to understand that there are people from general public that understands that generalizing people with ASD as being all the same is insanely overgeneralizing.

Last edited by FranzOren on 13 May 2022, 7:00 am, edited 1 time in total.

Statistics on crime and autism are misleading because autism is a massive spectrum so when they say autistic people are more likely to be victims of crime, what part of the spectrum are they talking about?

I think we can agree the only autistic people who commit crime will be aspies & ASD level 1.

So that leaves out the massive ASD 2 &3.

The question then remains what proportion of ASD 1 or aspies commit crime and what type of crimes are they

That is what I am trying to say, if we get more technical. But yes, it is true that most people with ASD are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators, and it is also just in order to remove stigma about ASD, but we have to see the harsh reality of the broadness of the diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder, it is broad to the point were even some people with Antisocial Personality Disorder also meet diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder as well, and statistics gets messed up in those situations.