Maybe Our Culture is partially to blame?

[NoraB]

Here in Aus it is estimated that 2 women a week are killed due to domestic violence.
A DVO isn’t worth the paper it is written on.As for the police a lot of them are abusers.

In the UK, every year, over 100 women and 30 men are murdered due to domestic abuse and the average is 35 assaults before the police are called. (Some people never call the police).

And what about all those neighbours who pretend to be deaf or turn a blind eye to someone's suffering?

My stepcousin was killed by her partner in Australia. She had four young children and the youngest has no memories of her mum thanks to that pathetic excuse for a human being. (I'll never, ever, forget that phone call from my aunty).

[Lolalee1]

Yep, I had neighbors that turned a blind eye and when the cops questioned them they didn’t hear anything the MF’s.

That is sad about your step cousin,Nora and for the children left without their mum.The statistics are terrible here for such a small population
It is worse in our First Nations communities.

[Lencoboy]

BTW Nora, thanks for that link to the NAS site a couple of posts upthread. It's got some interesting and useful articles on it in general, as well as the specific article you linked above.

[NoraB]

You're welcome.

[Lencoboy]

I recall having a conversation with another male client at my day centre on the day of our Christmas dinner in December (who doesn't normally attend on the same days as me) and he was telling me that he believes that the NAS are a corrupt organisation, similar to the FM whose username was 'Ponder' (now barred from this forum) also seemed to imply last year.

That particular client is very opinionated, has very right-wing (especially pro-Brexit) and often racist views, and says he hates Burton because it's the Punjab now and not Burton anymore, despite him being about 7 years younger than me. I pointed out to him that the local Asian population in the area have pretty much always existed throughout his entire lifetime of residing there, nor have they knowingly affected him personally in any detrimental way.

I reckon that person has probably been reading far too much dubious stuff online, especially on social media. Plus I don't personally think Burton (for better or worse) is anything remotely like the Punjab, just a historically industrial town that happens to have a few (generally harmless) ethnic minority individuals residing there, with a few community facilities tailored to their needs. Nor can I normally sense any significant tensions in the air in said area, otherwise I probably wouldn't be attending a day centre there myself.

[Lencoboy]

I recall having a conversation with another male client at my day centre on the day of our Christmas dinner in December (who doesn't normally attend on the same days as me) and he was telling me that he believes that the NAS are a corrupt organisation, similar to the FM whose username was 'Ponder' (now barred from this forum) also seemed to imply last year.

That particular client is very opinionated, has very right-wing (especially pro-Brexit) and often racist views, and says he hates Burton because it's the Punjab now and not Burton anymore, despite him being about 7 years younger than me. I pointed out to him that the local Asian population in the area have pretty much always existed throughout his entire lifetime of residing there, nor have they knowingly affected him personally in any detrimental way.

I reckon that person has probably been reading far too much dubious stuff online, especially on social media. Plus I don't personally think Burton (for better or worse) is anything remotely like the Punjab, just a historically industrial town that happens to have a few (generally harmless) ethnic minority individuals residing there, with a few community facilities tailored to their needs. Nor can I normally sense any significant tensions in the air in said area, otherwise I probably wouldn't be attending a day centre there myself.

This was just one of my random musings of yesterday BTW.

Possibly because I'm meant to be returning to my day centre tomorrow (3rd Jan), but that particular client I was referring to yesterday won't be there as he doesn't normally attend on the same days as me.

[pulisa]

That's a good job, Lenco. I'm sure he must wind you up so best to avoid having these types of conversation with him if you happen to see him anytime soon?

[Lencoboy]

That's a good job, Lenco. I'm sure he must wind you up so best to avoid having these types of conversation with him if you happen to see him anytime soon?

Definitely.

Despite having a similar condition to me, he comes across as a bit of an ill-informed, attention-seeking, 'know-it-all' rabble-rouser who's stuck in some kind of 90s timewarp (he was born sometime around the mid 80s), but generally for the wrong reasons in the case of the BIB.

In the case of the above BIB, he has often been known to boast about his harsh hard-line treatments he was on the receiving end of as a child for his Autie-related behaviours by his parents, school teachers, etc, such as being smacked (by his parents) and severely punished (by both his parents and teachers) for the slightest stims and other behaviours often regarded by neurotypicals as 'inappropriate', boasting it 'never did him any harm' and it 'taught him to behave properly'. He thinks people get away with far too much these days and also believes the 'zero tolerance' of the 90s and 2000s should be brought back, which I don't think actually ever went away overall, but rather pursued differently over the past decade or so (and more typically as an absolute last resort rather than willy-nilly), and generally for the better.

I'm sorry, but times have moved on since that client in question's childhood and school days, even though there will still always be the odd 'bad apples' in society who still remain set in their ways and believe that persons with LDs should be 'seen and not heard', but on the other hand the staff at my day centre said that those radical views, beliefs and opinions of that particular client are still his choice as it's still a free country, even though they may not exactly agree with a lot of what that client believes in.

I suppose it's a typical 'grey area' and 'fine line' between full freedom of expression/opinion and censorship/silencing of opinions, though the former, whilst the most desirable in most cases, ultimately carries responsibilities at the same time.

But nevertheless, simply 'chastising' the autism out of affected individuals is just plain wrong, especially in these more enlightened times of the 21st Century. Such things ultimately deserve to be left in the past where they belong.

[BlueIris]

What's your take on the Andrew Tate situation, Lenco?

I'm hoping he's going to be locked up out of the public eye for a while.

[Lencoboy]

What's your take on the Andrew Tate situation, Lenco?

I'm hoping he's going to be locked up out of the public eye for a while.

I've never actually heard of him/it BI, but sounds a bit ominous whatever it is.