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Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(
Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn't autistic, there'd be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She's a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.
Fixed that for you.
That is a pretty sick brurn though. Good on ya, autistic lady whether you meant it as an insult or not. Sorry about the pigs throwing a temper tantrum
I'm an autist, and I very well might have meant it as a burn.
If this girl is so far gone she can't stop herself from accidently being homophobic, why were the parents letting her out to drink on the street at midnight?
Honestly, I don't think it is.
From an outside perspective, someone might genuinely have that opinion. It might be up for debate (and ratio), however.
From another, you could understand how someone was willing to take the risk to experience a more normal life.
If she was 18 and drinking in a pub, I have no issue whatsoever. However she was 16 and drinking on the street at midnight. Her mother can't allow her out to do that, but at the same time argue that she's such a special delicate flower that she shouldn't have to take criminal responsibility for hate speech. Pick a lane.
Also, if a 16-year-old in the UK wants to go out and get pissed, stopping them is no easy feat.