Bloodied Autistic Boy Arrested

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Not trained? They are incapable of empathizing with us.

Tell me about it. But it does get better, in my country (UK) people with autism/AS are being given cards to present to emergency services that explain their difficulty to communicate and contact numbers to inform parents/carers of their warabouts.

ok, in 2004 there were several incidents where autistic people/aspies were being arrested for what the police THOUGHT was threatening behavior, the national autistic society (UK version of autism speaks) decided enough was enough and started producing cards, which when under pressure from emergency services, individuals with these cards could present the emergency services with the card, explaining why they act in certain ways which may be percieved as threatening or unusual to emergency services. google autism alert card and click on the link that says autismdotORGdotUK the reason i cant post URL's is that i havent been a member long enough.

Thank you. Here's the link http://www.autism.org.uk/our-services/s ... -card.aspx
But, in reading the text of the card, I'm not really sure I like it that much. I tend think a network group of self-help, self-advocacy, solidarity, etc, and not so top-down or parents-only or parents-primarily could do quite a bit better. (for one thing, the card is too long and has a heck of a lot of information for an emergency professional who might well be in a tense, nervous, unfamiliar situation. And I also think the text is vague and kind of repetitive)

And there's also a separate discussion thread people might be interested in
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp3915146 ... t=#3915146
in which we are talking about cards, or possibly a letter, and cases in which they might be helpful, and cases they might not.