I’ve been working on a long-term project. A series of portraits of autists who experienced violence at the hands of the police, strangers, friends… family.
Category: Autism & The Police
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…
It’s crazy that an autistic has to call a mayor & beg for training for first responders.
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…
Extraordinary case…. “human services” used as a codeword for police brutality.
Autism isn’t a mental illness. And meltdowns are not a symptom of disease. Either way…
Please don’t shoot us…?
Information gathered by the government… most especially the police or Justice Department… always ends up being used for punitive purposes…
Autist found guilty of mass murder…
Good.
Iowa City feels good about itself this morning…
The autists who live there shouldn’t…
We autists aren’t the problem.
Killer cops are.
No human services should be delivered by someone packing a gun…
There’s no excuse for deadly mistakes… delivering human services.
This … https://nativeofnowheredotblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/what-its-like-to-be-autistic-and-in-jail/ To read more about this important issue: Autism & the Police.
I believe strongly that no human services interaction should involve a human with a gun… unless overt signs of mortal violence are clearly evident.
Ever.
New group tracking police & autism interactions.
I fear every police officer & cop car I see.
And in 21st Century America… I see them everywhere.
So I bought a Medical Alert Bracelet. To protect myself from “helping” First Responders…
I’m overwhelmed by the USA…
Art is how I deal…
There is no… none whatsoever… NO reason for a person performing a welfare check, or other purely social service, to be packing any form of lethal weapon.
