Autistic Kids Face the Worst Kind of Bullying
The Autism News | English
If you’re a parent with a child on the autism spectrum, you know that sending them off to school can be hard. But this story is for other parents, the parents of the kids who don’t have autism. Did you now that 62 percent of children on the autism spectrum report being bullied once a week or MORE?
It’s one of the more sobering statistics I’ve come across this October, the month set aside as National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month. And sadly, it only gets worse. A new report from the US Commission on Civil Rights shows 40 percent of parents with children on the spectrum report their child has been bullied for more than a year. And 94 percent of the parents of kids with Asperger’s say their child has suffered at the hands of their peers.
As a mother whose child is not on the spectrum, the statistics are both shocking and depressing. We’re doing everything we can to make sure our daughter isn’t a bully, but I’ll be honest: we also depend reports from her teachers to let us know if something naughty is going on. But the British National Autistic Society says one of the problems with autistic kids being bullied is that often they don’t know to report it because of their syndrome.
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