(March 24, 2013 at 1:27 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: The hardest thing with those who have Asperger's is to know when they are being made fun of/ the point of a joke. They initially see the bully as just wanting to be friends.

This.

My 11 year-old son shows signs of Asperger's, though he hasn't been diagnosed. He wants nothing but to be everyone's friend, and he tries so hard, and is so trusting (and oblivious). He's a great kid, overflowing with empathy and love, but completely clueless to social cues.

It breaks my heart when I see the cruelty that kids and young adults are capable of.

(March 24, 2013 at 1:27 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Anyone having a slight desire to oil up this mr Sheard's groin and set it on fire?

Yes, and no. I hope that I'm better than that.

Well I DID say the desire was slight.


And yes, it breaks your heart to watch the little ones who "......wants nothing but to be everyone's friend, and he tries so hard, and is so trusting (and oblivious). He's a great kid, overflowing with empathy and love, but completely clueless to social cues. "

My little fella was/ is the same.

No, I wouldn't set this man on fire too. But seriously, he knew what he was doing. OH, he did. Even a ten year old knows what the fuck is
up with fire, and accelerants. There's no other reason for them to be dousing the victim with oil anyways.

I want to know what underhanded forces were at work that got him out of this with a slap on the wrist.
Then set them on fire. Slightly.

(March 24, 2013 at 1:35 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Well I DID say the desire was slight.


And yes, it breaks your heart to watch the little ones who "......wants nothing but to be everyone's friend, and he tries so hard, and is so trusting (and oblivious). He's a great kid, overflowing with empathy and love, but completely clueless to social cues. "

My little fella was/ is the same.

I have three sons all with dispraxia and all somewhere on the spectrum. I had to move my eldest twice because of incredible bullying, largely ignored by the schools he was at. My youngest loves everyone and everything while the middle one is the least autistic of the three.

:*( I don't understand this world, never will. Never have, never will. Fuck people. And their parents who never taught them better. And the school who lets that shit happen. Fuuuuck thhheeeemm.

This has taught me that I can murder Mr. Sheard and only get three years in the slammer.

Sounds tempting.

Kudosoed, reluctantly.

I don't understand how any of this happened there's so many questions.
How did these guys end up together I think it was at a birthday party but why would they even be in the same social circles, why did the guy who died simply agree to pour oil all over his body then set himself on fire, why did people just watch him on fire, why did the person who is against homosexuals want someone to strip down then cover themselves in body oil, I've seen a picture of the guy who's going to prison for 3 years and he does look a bit gay himself.

How did this 'kid' end up in the social circle that killed him? Because Asperger's isn't a severe enough spectrum disorder to have these individuals isolated (unlike say Down's Syndrome) in fact interacting in what is named as "mainstream" can be beneficial to "Aspie" people.

In this case? mr Sheard and his cohorts were just being mindless rabid dogs taunting and bullying a vulnerable individual

(March 24, 2013 at 8:40 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: How did this 'kid' end up in the social circle that killed him? Because Asperger's isn't a severe enough spectrum disorder to have these individuals isolated (unlike say Down's Syndrome) in fact interacting in what is named as "mainstream" can be beneficial to "Aspie" people.

In this case? mr Sheard and his cohorts were just being mindless rabid dogs taunting and bullying a vulnerable individual

I always wonder though about bullying that ends up with a the person being bullied being stripped naked, it baffles me, it always sounds like pent up frustrated homosexual aggression to me.
My old school was pretty rough a lot of bullying happened but no one was ever stripped naked, nothing even close to that ever happened.
I still can't get over the fact that there were several bullies who taunted someone for being gay, then stripped him naked. Didn't at least one of them stop and think "actually stripping another man down naked and then covering him in oil is actually a bit gay in itself" But then I don't know the full story.