Carlos asked:
in my school, this kid was annoying an autistic child and i felt bad about it. I know he is a complete a$$hoe. And I heard he got in serious trouble. So how can your actions hurt an autistic child and how do they react about it?
in my school, this kid was annoying an autistic child and i felt bad about it. I know he is a complete a$$hoe. And I heard he got in serious trouble. So how can your actions hurt an autistic child and how do they react about it?
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Autism is more about being able to express emotions than about having emotions so anything that will hurt another person will hurt a person with autism. In addition, since kids with autism have trouble reading emotional cues, hurtful behaviour can further confuse the issue, making their behaviour more inappropriate. and since many autistic kids explode since they have an inability to communicate their difficulties, this can give the autistic child a bad reputation as well.
they have feelings like everyone else. they feel pain and humilliation like everyone else. lots of times it is locked deeply down and you dont see it but that does not mean that they have no feelings, only that they dont express them. or they may be feeling one thing, but it comes out as another because they are not so good with communicting such things to other people. they may seem more rude, abrupt than they really mean to be, they just try so hard it all comes out garbled in a rush. other times depending on the situation the kid may not even realize they are being made fun of. depends on what they were doing. or some times they wander so far into themselves that they are unaware of what is going on around them.
it really depends on the level of autistism, what was being done, and what the kid was thinking about at the time.
best to just do your best and that is all you can do.
Children with Autism have feeling and emotions, too. They may not express their feelings like a “normal” person would but they do have feelings. Any child who would bully another child, with or without special needs, should be disciplined.
Give them emotional trauma, make them hate lot of normal people and they go to the autism community and do “NT” bashing. I see lot of “NT” bashing in the autism communities.
I know some autistic kids can lash out at you when you keep picking on them. They get so frustrated they attack. It’s how the express themselves. They might have meltdowns before going to school because they don’t want to go due to bullying.
NT stands for neurotypical and it usually means people without autism. I hate the term because everyone is different and has their own problems. Normal is so over rated.
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