Smith had been told he suffered from Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, but that illness was not presented as a defence by his legal team.
They may thank me for not living in England, Asperger's is yet again described as an ILLNESS. As for the sentence, there is something wrong.. Granted, they have proof he was present at the scene, but where's the weapon, the finger prints, and most importantly, a good motive, don't tell me he had an easy way disposing of what i believe is a rather largely sized cricket hammer covered in blood, if someone saw him with that, i'd say yeah he's guilty, but now i still have doubts.
IM, they didn't use AS as part of prosecution, it's more the thing that they didn't use it for defense, it'd be quite the case if they said that the boy would have a serious problem with inflicting physical pain, then again.. None of us knows the truth, we can only speculate.
Well, they don't put it in either a bad or a good light, but i can agree with one thing, they could have at least formulated it differently.
Hm.. They're demonizing the boy, and using Asperger's as means to do it, i'm going to mail them stating that this is a case of severe discrimination to neurodivergent people.
[edit] For those who agree and wish to send a mail as well, feedback@mirror.co.uk is the complaints address, i'll try and draft a mail if my browser will let me.[/edit]
I am writing a lengthy article for a journal now that will lay out everything. When I look at people's reactions here to how the media slanders us, however, I know none here have stories that can compare. You preach to us to pray for acceptance, but I say this will make us beggars to our own demise.
I definitely do not want people like you to speak for me.
You claim to speak for the Aspies of the world. That means you are speaking for me. Normies love to bend the rules of logic to exclude themselves from judgement, so your last statement deserves... well, you urinate and moan whenever I so much as hint at anything like it. Actually, hell, since I have to conclude with it anyway, if my mother said that to me, I would slap her in the face. Hard enough to knock her out.
I can know things by listening to people actually speaking and weighing the sum of their words.
For instance, there will soon be a new entry here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/king_gravewater/ that will contain the statement
"By this time, any normie with a shred of decency should be asking themselves how you get a six year old to vow that they will kill a man whose profession it is to impart the skills he should need for the rest of his life." It will be at least twelve paragraphs in length, and be a very detailed description of my life. When you contemplate murder at the age of six, which I do not believe anyone else here has, it shows in how you speak to people for the rest of your life.
You should not be even allowed to write things about Aspies, since you clearly cannot deal with the growing cadre of Aspies who are angry about being margnalised like X-Men by their own families. If the plague of Aspies popping up in Maryborough has any truth to it, and if this is the only kind of support they can hope for, then they will eventually burn that 19th-century-land town to the ground.
Are you going to keep acting like a dirty normie and place yourself above criticism, or are you going to act in a manner befitting someone who heralds to be campaigning for the freedom of Aspies (and by extension, speaking for them)?
As I am saying in the entry I am about to post, people mock like that when they have no other ground to stand on.
No, I am not attacking you. This is not attacking. As I have already pointed out, I began wishing the death of men when I was a six year old, so if you think me telling you that you are behaving like a normie constitutes attacking, you are hypersensitive.
Edit: due to serious contravening of forum rules.
I will read that in a moment, but first I would like to point everyone in the direction of my statement to normies the world over:
Edit: removed insulting link.
No, I want you to just have a read. And if you expect me to not tell people like the morons on Something Awful to get bent before they start reading, you haven't learned much about me. There is a great song on Up In Smoke that introduces itself in similar fashion.
EDIT: I had forgotten I had written the first third like that. Oh well... *shrugs* I cannot hide how I feel about things lately.
Okay, I just read your piece and some of your other blogs as well. (I'm assuming those pictures are you, right? It's nice to now have a better mental image--your avatar doesn't do it for me.)
Yes, those pictures are of me. I do not feel they do me justice. The flash on pretty much any camera makes my skin look far redder than it actually is (I really do look like I have been in a suit for most of my life). You also would not find the mental image agreeable if you saw some of the photos I took after the skin cancer removal. :cry:
Anyway, in one of your earlier blogs you said:
"The real problem, as has been said by many in many places, is that it is difficult to know the answer when one does not understand the question. There are so many people I have encountered who thought the solution was as simple as flipping some kind of internal switch." (You were talking about changing focus--away from thoughts about your mistreatment and over to your interests in writing, music, etc.)
A big problem is environment. In this country, it gets so hot during the middle of the day that I literally burn out and have cognitive problems. I once described how seasons affected me to someone who was contemplating a career as a psychologist. I loved this girl, but of course, the Aspieness kept me from doing much about it. I spent most of the time I knew her scared to do anything.
Seems to me like you're dealing with lots of questions--Why was it so hard/took so long to get diagnosed? How can I get the help I need now? How can I help/make "normies" understand the life of an Aspie? How can I deal with the anger I have against people who've mistreated me? How can I stop the demonization of Aspies in the news and contemporary culture? How can I make up for lost time? etc. That's a LOT of questions!!!! Following them out means learning a lot about yourself and also how things work in the world, both of which are complicated.
The really maddening thing is that I have been asking these questions almost since the very day I was born. Even when I come to find places in which there are other Aspies, I have to ask if I can expect more abuse. And that is when I realise that I just do not want to live this life, not anymore. The only reason I get out of bed in the morning anymore is because there are people who want to do something with my writing. If it were not for my writing, I doubt I would even be here now. The writings will probably be the only thing that ever changes my situation, which is pretty damned sad when you think about it.
Your comments about medication are sobering--I wish there were way to avoid medicating kids except when absolutely necessary.
I honestly believe that in 999 out of 1000 cases, medication for children is absolutely and utterly unnecessary. It really just shows laziness on the part of the parent, teacher, or other adults in their environment. I'm sure anyone who reads my personal accounts can guess how I would respond to a proposal to medicate any son of mine.
Only as much as eases the pain.
Maybe if you read the entire thing, and not just the parts you are offended by, you would get the idea that Aspies pleading for acceptance are diminishing (as evidenced by the last comment I replied to).
Umm, yes, it is a reason. As I said, if people want to get down on their knees and say "please accept us, normies... pleeeease", then they do not speak for me. They evidently do not speak for spiritbomber, either. Scottish_elf is a bit of a grey area, but then, she is seventeen years old and knows little of the abuse she could face. I truly fear for her.
In business classes, they often teach that when a customer makes a complaint, they are doing you a favour. Think about that for a while.
I see little other way to describe how it appears to me. Especially given that you constantly confuse convince with impose. By censoring criticism of your approach, you make yourself no better than any dirty normie.