tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post3409854412876496105..comments2024-03-19T08:40:36.481+11:00Comments on Life with Aspergers: How Asperger's Syndrome and Simple Miscommunication can Quickly Turn to TragedyGavin Bollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833941398375568706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-10649975994394075562016-01-20T14:27:00.276+11:002016-01-20T14:27:00.276+11:00I have to say Police+Guns=This is Inevitable.The b...I have to say Police+Guns=This is Inevitable.The bobbies here in England started making me uncomfortable when they started wearing stab vests and relabeled themselves a Service. Not the right thing to happen; the job attracts too high a proportion of the wrong type of people. You live in it and have become desensitised to the smell. Your car incident? Those guys had lost sight of normal. Being aspie, at some point in the week I will have to pause and think myself into the other persons shoes. Too many cops either lose that ability or didn't have it in the first place. Being aspie I am having to stop myself going into a rant about what I think should be the bleeding obvious. LOL.<br /><br />Steven C Watson Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-55300406555763282672015-05-28T12:47:05.230+10:002015-05-28T12:47:05.230+10:00"One of the things that people with Asperger&..."One of the things that people with Asperger's syndrome often do is assume that others can understand what is in their minds without actually communicating."<br /><br />I have met so many people without ASDs who do the same "you should have to care what I think, I shouldn't have to care what you think - I shouldn't even have to ask myself whether or not you can possibly know what I mean" thing.<br /><br />"This young woman went after police with a knife. What happened was tragic but inevitable. It's unreasonable to expect police to merrily let folks with weapons approach them and do NOTHING!!"<br /><br />For all the police knew, she was just another person going after them with a knife. For all she knew, they were just more cops.<br /><br />The police need better training for dealing with people going after them with knives. People with ASDs need better training for dealing with police.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-44922996233305336552015-05-25T10:45:57.893+10:002015-05-25T10:45:57.893+10:00Fwiw, my family has a history of mental illness s...Fwiw, my family has a history of mental illness severe enough to have warranted a psychiatrist, meds and the occasional in-patient stay starting in grade school for my sister and I. Both of us are alive as the result of an incredible amount of psychiatric/pharmacological scaffolding.<br /><br />This young woman went after police with a knife. What happened was tragic but inevitable. It's unreasonable to expect police to merrily let folks with weapons approach them and do NOTHING!!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14075630681598355493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-55011945924284332172015-02-15T21:31:25.344+11:002015-02-15T21:31:25.344+11:00Thanks for sharing Gavin. There has been a lot of ...Thanks for sharing Gavin. There has been a lot of chatter in the Aspie facebook group that I am in about this particular incident. As I have been very time poor lately I have not read all the articles relating to this incident but it is truly a tragedy to see such a young life being taken away. Not knowing in-depth details about this incident I cannot comment if the situation could have been dealth with differently. Hopefully though, through this terrible tragedy and the investigation that currently surrounds it can bring attention to the fact that police in Australia should at-least get some training on assisting people with Autism. On an unrelated note I am currently looking to networking with other blog writers/advocates on the spectrum and I would love it if you could go on my blog and use the contact form on the top right hand corner of the page. http://bensaspieblog.blogspot.com.au/. Thank-you and have a good week.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14654700183794302429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-46400966303604332752015-02-15T13:34:20.784+11:002015-02-15T13:34:20.784+11:00I, too, have issues with authority... not that I a...I, too, have issues with authority... not that I am rude or noncompliant or anything, I just get too nervous and sort of shut down. I've also had run-ins with the police. It was often a case of my being in the wrong place at the wrong time, like giving a ride to a relative who turned out to be buying crack! The police's response to me was usually to assume I was high on drugs. For a while I carried around a paper that explained my Aspergers and that I wasn't violent or on drugs. It helped. Angel The Alienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16158672957404194956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-10807519171149896812015-02-15T09:36:53.585+11:002015-02-15T09:36:53.585+11:00Wow, I think if you were in present time North Ame...Wow, I think if you were in present time North America, you would have been shot. <br /><br />I really fear this with my son. K Bron Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15568810726327536470noreply@blogger.com