Adult bullying and suicide.

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Bullying has been in the news. Some kids in grade school who are bullied commit suicide. Bullying continues into adulthood. Adult bullying has not made the news as much as it has about kids that are bullied. When it is just bullying without physical assaults, it goes ignored. What happens when adult bullying of Autistics goes on for long enough? Are there any known cases of suicide. How many are enduring bullying and are in hopeless situations that can potentially lead to suicide?

It can happen and it almost happened to me when I was 23 back in 1998. The rougher girls at the factory that I worked at kept asking me the same personal questions about whether I had sex or a boyfriend, if I had my drivers licence and if I did drugs. I even had a plan in place. I was going to drink vodka, apple sauce and Tylenol just like those people in that cult who committed suicide two years earlier. I'm glad I didn't do that, now. I wouldn't be around to post on WP if I did.

To me I see the bullying of a person because he or she is autistic, or appears to be as a human rights violation, and a hate crime. We cannot let neurotypicals justify themselves by saying that autism/Asperger syndrome are invisible conditions and denying knowledge based on that. This is an excuse by some to carry on with the status quo. Therefore the harassment and victimisation of autistic and Asperger syndrome children and adults. I see that the most disabling thing about autism is not the operating system itself. but the attitude of neurotypical people to people on the autistic spectrum. including those of us that have Asperger syndrome. I think that we on the autistic spectrum should be given fully inclusive civil rights and antidiscriminatory legislation in. Lets see the time when an aspiphobic attack will be seen as serious as a racist or homophobic attack. that being a hate crime

was bullied when I was a kid. Dan Savage initiated the series "It gets better" to promote acceptance of gay teenagers and help them realize it gets better when they become adults and head off to university. As a straight Aspie, I suggest maybe we could embark on a similar project for Aspergerians, including posting YouTube videos telling Aspie Youth it does get better once you graduate from high school