"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
Hmmmm ~ I guess we all know that's not true.
This is especially true for people with autism for a number of reasons:
(a) our differences make us vulnerable to abuse, verbal & otherwise;
(b) our tendency for black & white thinking, literal interpretation & naive egocentricity leave us vulnerable to miscommunication, misinterpretation & to taking things personally;
(c) our tendency to dwell on hurtful experiences, rather than to simply 'shake off', can fuel already heightened levels of anxiety or anger
Today, World Mental Health Day, this untruth is particularly poignant as was illustrated during BBC Breakfast News & their report on the schockingly high levels of disability hate crime suffered by people with learning disabilities & autism.
On #WorldMentalHealthDay we hear that convictions for disability hate crime have risen 40% in the last year... pic.twitter.com/MzpAG2zrAG— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) 10 October 2016
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