re: Boy with Asperger's syndrome hospitalized after brutal school attack

I don't think an adult who does this at work is an a-hole either.

Not necessarily anyway

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Asperger's kids can be total fricking pricks. I'm not saying this kid's beating was justified because I don't know the specifics, but these kids aren't all innocent. I've seen a few of them in action.

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This! Aspergers kids look like any other kids. Unless someone tells you, sometimes you wouldn't even know they had a disability. Not defending the shite who nearby beat this kid to death. He was wrong and deserves criminal prosecution. But I can see why Aspergers kids are more likely to be bullied.. Its because they're little assholes a lot of the time.

My first instinct was to grab the kid by the throat, climb on top of a roof, choke slam the shite out of him to the ground.

I would make him suffer.

That's my reaction after reading about it. I have two sons on the Autism Spectrum. They are 5 and 7 years old. The youngest is high functioning, and the older is nonverbal low functioning.

Them being bullied later in life is a major fear of mine.

Zereaux, my 14 year old has Aspergers, too. He's a good kid. Very quiet at school, socially awkward especially now that girls are in the picture, very intelligent and in honors classes. The over generalization of Aspys being assholes really irks me. My son is quiet and isolated. He has friends now, but skips out on a lot of social interaction because he doesn't quite get it. I found out there was a school dance a couple of weeks back. I asked him why he didn't tell me or want to go with his friends. His answer was, "I don't dance." He doesn't see gray areas, and a dance is a place where people dance, not an opportunity to hang out with friends.

We've had some bullying issues. Mostly because he was in a disruptive class and he doesn't understand why kids disrupt the teacher when it's a rule to not do so. Bottom line, Aspys are a little different and being different as a young teenager is not a good thing. But, I don't think my son will end up being a very different adult. His personality is not all that much different than a lot of the engineers I know. Analytical, logical, and focused. Luckily, he's really big, so most kids leave him alone physically.

To the poster that said Aspys don't like sports, not necessarily true. They often don't play sports because mild hypotonia and poor coordination is a part of it.

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I didn't read this whole thread but are people really justifying a kid who weighs over 250# beating up a kid who weighs 70# to within a hair of his life?

If you want to add fuel to the fire, the father of the bully has a rap sheet miles long.

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It really doesn't matter that he has Asperger's. The other kid doesn't have an excuse for his behavior. He's just an a-hole. He beat a child to near death in a school cafeteria.

A woman gets raped in a shopping mall mid-day. Is it her fault for wearing a short skirt, or the attackers fault for thinking its acceptable to rape a woman in a shopping mall?