ASD and Getting Bullied - WAYS OF GETTING BULLIED (Part 3/7)

- Intentionally disrupting one’s non-pathological routines.

- Intentionally disrupting one’s preference for sameness not from therapeutic attempts to improve cognitive flexibility (eg hiding favourite objects, constantly changing their positions).

- Intentionally causing sensory overload by making local environment overstimulating (especially audio/visual), constantly staring, touching* or standing/sitting near them --> impairing their work or study (as if there’s a presence of “Qi” that can be detected by the ASD person).

                * Exceptions are hard hugs/grips.

- Harassment (especially homophobia) based on erroneous assumptions about an ASD person’s physical traits (eg gait, possible hypotonia or motor incoordination, notably in childhood), behaviour or “unusual” special interests.

- Stereotyping an ASD person and penalizing without understanding their scattered cognitive profile of strengths, weaknesses and personal compensatory techniques (many of which are intellectualized, especially algorithms for social situations and piecing details to form general concepts).

- Physical abuse

                - Can easily trigger a meltdown + “violent lashing” from an ASD child/teenager, especially if     

                   ganged-up on.

                - Even worse is when they claim that the ASD person started it.

- Verbal abuse

                - Can also trigger a meltdown.

                - Bullies love to see a reaction, and this is more so the case with Aspies/HFA who have better 

                  verbal comprehension.

                - Difficulty in giving a successful impromptu retort --> frustration, humiliation.

- Sexual harassment, coercion (especially female ASD people, initially reduced street-smarts).

- Getting framed for sexual harassment (especially male ASD people, initially reduced street-smarts, overly trusting of others but this quickly converts to cynicism/caution following adverse events).

- Lying, exploitation, blackmail (ASD person has initially reduced abilities to read people and check for situational red-flags).

- Framing an ASD person when they were led to believe that they were doing something harmless. Often paired with bully appearing to be the “innocent victim/bystander”.

- Passive-aggressiveness, and withholding of relevant information to get an ASD person into trouble. Refusal to give details, and intentionally use vague language to make an ASD person confused or doubt their ability, and then claim that the ASD person is being unreasonable or aggressive.

- Spreading rumours about an ASD person who has more difficulty defending it in a “believable” manner to the others, because they’re more inclined to believe the BS-artist, and also his difficulty in figuring out how to convince them due to his statistically reduced TOM.

- Taking credit for an ASD person’s work and presenting it as if it were his own, often in a more charming, fluent manner.

- Wilfully misinterpreting what an ASD person says and responding negatively (especially in front of others), this is often done by over-generalizing what an ASD person says about a topic or targeting a specific bit and going on a tangent, even though he meant it in relation to that specific situation only.