tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post9001815825421363980..comments2024-03-19T08:40:36.481+11:00Comments on Life with Aspergers: Autism and CrimeGavin Bollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833941398375568706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-35396739994666350152024-02-18T08:48:57.857+11:002024-02-18T08:48:57.857+11:00Anonymous, as a general rule, a true autistic pers...Anonymous, as a general rule, a true autistic person will lack the insight to be manipulative. It's one of the reasons why it is said that you cannot be both autistic and psychopathic.<br /><br />I'm not sure that I agree as I've seen some autistic people displaying traits of both. You can never say "never". Combinations are always possible, though sometimes less common. <br /><br />I think that the punishments for crimes in general tend to be too soft or too misdirected and that a person's background factors into it too much. I've noticed that many of today's big crimes are being committed by people who are "known to the police" or who were on "home detention" for one thing or another. <br /><br />Personally, I think that crimes that hurt actual people need to be charged more than crimes that simply affect wealth (for example, an assault crime should be punished more than video piracy) but the legal system doesn't function the way we would like it to.<br /><br />The US, for example has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world but I don't think that it is doing much to reduce the incidence of crime. Lockups are good for violent crime but they're not the best solution for non-violent crime. Gavin Bollardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13833941398375568706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-21753122835342038222024-02-18T01:52:37.128+11:002024-02-18T01:52:37.128+11:00I live in the UK and have seen a lot of people wit...I live in the UK and have seen a lot of people with Autism walk free because they play on their Autism and act dumb, a Domestic Violence Support Worker I recently had due to my Autistic ex stated that Autistics can be very manipulative and play the system resulting in "No Further Action". The UK is far too soft on those what are Neurodiverse, they should at least be sectioned under the Mental Health Act just as it was decades ago.<br /><br />I also read about a boy hacking Rockstar Games, he has been arrested, charged and sectioned as there are concerns about his violent behaviour towards others. My Autistic ex can also become violent, she's assaulted 9 people from what I know of, most of these are exs plus she's previously been arrested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-17592687599246772572022-05-03T12:39:26.272+10:002022-05-03T12:39:26.272+10:00My explanation why some criminal are part of ASD c...My explanation why some criminal are part of ASD community.<br /><br /><br />Most studies say that people with ASD are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators. While that is true, that statement is too broad, people with co-morbid diagnosis of Intellectual Disability and Autism are actually 20 times more likely to be victims than being perpetrators, compare to people who are higher functioning end of the autistic spectrum. Another problem why that statement from most studies is too broad, it is because the diagnostic criteria for Pervasive Developmental Disorders became more broad for the last decade and it was lumped as Autism Spectrum Disorder, and it's broad to the point where even some people with Antisocial Personality Disorder can be considered to have Autism Spectrum Disorder.<br /><br />A lot of you guys wonder why more criminals happened to have diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder than a decade earlier, it is because the diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder is a lot more broad than it was a decade ago. It was thought that only people with Intellectual Disabilities have Pervasive Developmental Disorder, but after few years, they made the diagnostic criteria for ASD more broad to include people who have symptoms of PDD but without Intellectual Disability, and after few more years, the diagnostic criteria became more broad to include Asperger Syndrome. And In 2013, it was lumped as Autism Spectrum Disorder, and and recently it was lumped as Autism Spectrum Disorder in ICD-11.<br /><br />It's is true that most people with ASD are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators, but if we get more technical, people who have ASD without Intellectual Disability are more likely to commit crimes than people who are Intellectually Disabled. There are some people with Intellectual Disability that commit crimes, but it's so rare, because the diagnostic criteria for Intellectual Disability includes problem with Intellectual and adaptive functioning. People with ASD without Intellectual Disability are able to to neurotypical tasks and some people with ASD without Intellectual Disability are able to defend themselves than people Intellectual Disability.<br /><br />Since, the diagnostic criteria for Autism because more broad for the last decade, I wonder if I am correct that if there are some crimes that with ASD without Intellectual Disabilities are more likely to commit, but due to lack of social skills and repetitive behaviors.<br /><br />You guys are wondering why more criminals happened to have ASD than a decade ago, it's because the diagnostic criteria for Pervasive Developmental Disorders became more broad for the last decade and lumped as Autism Spectrum Disorder in recent years.<br /><br />There are a lot of people that say it's impossible to have Antisocial Personality Disorder and ASD, but the problem is that the diagnostic criteria for ASD is much more broad than a decade ago, that it's is considered possible to have co-morbidity diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder and ASD.<br /><br />Now, you know why more criminals happened to have ASD than a decade ago.<br /><br />Oren Franz2https://www.blogger.com/profile/06414688542921223789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-17165003948746541812021-03-27T12:32:34.263+11:002021-03-27T12:32:34.263+11:00But it depends on the severity of ASD.
Autism is ...But it depends on the severity of ASD.<br /><br />Autism is a spectrum developmental disorder that goes from profound Learning Disorder or profound Intellectual Disability to Autism without any Learning or Intellectual Disorder. the third problem is that you can have Autism or any communication disorder without having Learning or Intellectual Disability.<br /><br /><br />It is rare for a person with Intellectual Disability to commit crimes on their own and are more likely to be victims, because they have problems with Learning and have problems with Intellectual and adaptive functioning. However there are exceptions and reports that some people with developmental disorders commit crimes, because they are high-functioning. Statistics says that most people with mental health and developmental disorders are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators compare to people in the general population. However we should be careful, because not everyone in the general population commit crimes ether. <br /><br />But I wanted to ask if death penalty should only be used as a last resort, not as punishment or revenge, but for the sake of safety for others if there is proof that a person is constantly being dangerous and is trying to escape, regardless if they have mental health and developmental disorders. But other than that I have mixed feeling about the death penalty, because some people can be wrongly convicted for death penalty.<br /><br /><br /><br />Sources of the study of who will more likely to be victims or criminals:<br /><br />https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/mental-health-myths-facts<br /><br /><br /><br />Sources of some criminals with mental health and developmental disorders:<br /><br />https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27185105/<br /><br />https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00223980.2016.1175998<br /><br />https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17615427/<br /><br />https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X07302056<br /><br />https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20024608/<br /><br />https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-009-0917-y<br /><br />https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18449633/<br /><br />https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-008-0580-8<br /><br />https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26510628/<br /><br />https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X15612719<br /><br />https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710161/<br /><br />https://journals.lww.com/hrpjournal/Fulltext/2016/01000/Template_to_Perpetrate__An_Update_on_Violence_in.2.aspx<br /><br />https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14600312/<br /><br />https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.54.11.1519<br /><br />https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789215/<br /><br />https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29398933/<br /><br />https://www.google.com/search?q=Sky+Walker+Autism&oq=Sky+Walker+Autism&aqs=chrome..69i57j35i39.8710j0j7&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8Oren Franz2https://www.blogger.com/profile/06414688542921223789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841851020927689161.post-14720875205026600832018-11-10T16:15:26.469+11:002018-11-10T16:15:26.469+11:00"and their naivety may make them vulnerable t..."and their naivety may make them vulnerable to undesirable social groups. "<br /><br />Yup. Some folks see guys who don't have much luck attracting girls and promote very old-fashioned standards to them, standards of societies in the past that would let these guys get away with forced marriage and rape (that is, getting girls *without* attracting them). >:( <br /><br />Did you see https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-rise-of-weaponized-autism-2 too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com