I find it interesting and bizarre that people would freak out over an autistic kid/person stabbing someone and blame the autism... When nuerotypical (well, ya know... I don't exactly think people who randomly off other people are 'typical' but you get the idea) people off each other a decent amount.
It's pretty sad right now. I was talking to my friend who informed me about this and he was like "they can't blame video game violence for this. Sometimes autistic people don't know right from wrong." I just stopped talking to him at that point because I felt that right now there is no reasoning with him.
Actually, the scientific studies prove rather decisively that autistic--yes, autistic, not just Asperger's--kids are capable of the level of moral reasoning one would expect for their verbal mental age, even if their theory of mind is seriously lacking. Not all aspects of morality have been examined yet, but it's clear that autistic kids can identify harming people as bad and distinguish between moral rules and social conventions as well as NT kids with similar verbal skills. These findings are in spite of the fact that the researchers began hypothesizing that autistic kids' moral judgment would be seriously impaired, particularly if their theory of mind was also seriously impaired. I just handed in a paper on this. Feel free to pass the information along to your friend :).
I'm positive I would have gone on a huge rant, but I'm not known for shutting up when I'm irritated, either. I would have kept on and told them why that was ridiculous.
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