Wendaline wrote: Wow. How can people be so cruel? It's too bad too, beacuse if those people just took the time to talk with that kid they'd see how genuine and nice he probably is. They'd probably learn a lot from him too.
I doubt that. Thing about autists is, that they partially or entirely lack every capacity to engage in social interaction. They may be very nice people. The reason bullying like this can happen is both, that they are not understood but also that they do not understand. It may be tough to grasp that their way of thinking and experiencing the world and especially emotions is totally different from what we use to call ordinary. Social relations between 'ordinary' people and autists are extremely rare and difficult enough to be impossible to engage or maintain in a majority of cases.
However, it is not that autists are any lesser people. They rarely have any relationships with each other, too, and most don't suffer from it at all, since the way their mind functions, what they expect from a relationship is very different and what ordinary people understand by one is often something an autist simply doesn't need.
I had to research into this, because suffering from Asperger's syndrome I had literally to learn the way 'ordinary' people function from scratch and while I still do not understand or feel with it, I could at least learn to know what to expect and how to react 'appropriately' and thus function in a human society. Unfortunately, autists often do not have the flexibility to adapt like that. I bet, if they could, they might be very pleasant people, because one who has to learn it consciously rather than getting it with the mother's milk, often has quite a detailed understanding of the matter.
