Greg Wallace’s autism means that he can’t wear underwear. Really?

😂
That made my day! 🤣

My BF has high functioning Aspergers and is also partly disabled - under active Thyroid conditions , mild Asthma , Hyperhidrosis etc and side effects from a catalogue of medications.
He can't regulate his body temperature properly & when he's at his place, he prefers to strip off and lay on his bed without underwear. He never wears pants to sleep as uncomfortable and he'll wake up drenched in groin area, but will occasionally wears soft cotton seamless T-shirts it cold weather. In company he'll of course wear underwear, unless it's just me or a close friend or two at his place or mine flat. Net curtains all around naturally.
He'll cover himself with a sheet in very hot weather like recently or like in 2022. My flatmate is fine as she's not one to wear much either when our place is like an oven. They get on well so it is zero issues. BF is too typically 'middle class polite' (his term) and introverted in this regard to even want to do anything inappropriate. He'd be mortified if he accidentally exposed himself to anyone bar very close friends.
I'd probably flashed myself five times as much by mistake in my younger days tbh 😁

All those with ASD are different, but in this case I think Greg Wallis is talking the piss... 🙄

I have autism and I also hate wearing pants and having a vpl, I go without now too.

As an autistic with sensory issues I take offence at this. Yes sometimes I can't wear certain clothing items but not once in my 48 years have I exposed myself to other unwilling parties. He may or not be autistic but he is clear a sexually harassing perv.

Autistic DS has sensory issues and can only wear one brand of underwear in a specific colour. If that’s not available, he goes commando. No big deal.

OTOH GW is an odious, chippy little misogynist, and one of the many people who thinks that ND is a free pass to all kinds of inappropriate behaviour. Seen also across multiple threads here: “Does anyone think my DH might be autistic?” No love, I think he’s a cunt.

He’s a stupid fucking prick, totally insulting to the autistic community. Shame on him.

He’s getting zero sympathy for blaming autism for his pulling down pants to the opposite gender. He is a horrible man.

It comes down to the fact that GW has the capacity to understand how his actions impact others ,it's and insult to those that don't have the capacity to understand when they are behaving inappropriately, and how that limits their lives for him to use autism as an excuse.

My youngest (likely autistic) can’t stand knickers under clothes but at the age of 5 she is well aware that she must wear them with a dress because we don’t show our private areas in public.

So yes not wearing underwear due to sensory issues can be a common among people who are autisitc but it doesn’t they get to sexually abuse people.

And he’s whingeing about being unfairly cancelled and discriminated against. Says. He won’t go quietly.

Twat.

Greg, find yourself a new PR team.

My ds is nd and has sensory issues and is very specific about his underwear so he chooses loose fitting cotton boxers and not sexually harassing people.
It pisses me off so much that ND is the go-to excuse to try and justify shitty and predatory behaviour

Plus I don't see how going commando is any more comfortable, it's not as if Gregg is famous for wearing palazzo pants.
Ugh just the thought of his ball sack and crack roaming all over his suit trouser crotch seams, whatever he pays his dry cleaner it's not enough

Funnily enough I’ve managed never to sexually assault anyone even though my autism wasn’t diagnosed until I was 51. I’ve also managed not to claim that it’s my employer’s fault that I’m a predatory sex offender.

Bastard. Into the dock and then a prison cell please.

He knows he is not wearing underwear so not an excuse to expose himself

for some people who have autism they do have sensory issues (for him that maybe not liking tight clothes)

Yep, totally possible that he prefers not to wear underwear due to sensory issues. My DS struggles to wear socks for the same reason.

Totally no need for anyone other than him to know that though! You can still be autistic and also a sex pest, although the vast majority of autistic people I know are most definitely not.

I’m no longer surprised by anything GW says. Did he say this or was it satire? 🤣

Jimmy Saville was knighted, the honours list is full of them.

We aren't waving our dick around. It's a pretty easy rule to follow. They just don't want to. It's not an Autism issue, it's an entitlement and I'm A Special Exception issue. He's digging himeslf a hole, desperately, let him.

I think he’s been advised that he doesn’t need everyone to believe him, just the people who want to believe him (or agree with him).

but I agree he is despicable.

Entitled, arrogant sexual predator and full time arsehole - who (like so many similar men) believes his minor celebrity is a fucking cloak of invisibility - plays both victim and disability cards in full expectation of public sympathy?

Shocker.

I’m laughing 🤣🤣🤣

He’s come out fighting. Zero self awareness. The man is a giant arsehole

There are numerous threads on MN on Masterchef that stretch back for years. Gregg Wallace is panned by many posters in all of them - as a shit presenter, an apparent creep, and a general man-who-ignites-the-spidey-senses. Comments would frequently include things like ‘I prefer the Friday show because Gregg’s not in it’, and ‘god, he’s letching over that poor woman again’.

He didn’t even have ‘popularity’ for the BBC to see past when the complaints started coming in years ago. He is easily replaceable and he’s now realising this, and clutching at straws. But who protected him all these years till now?

(His ‘day in the life article’ was also very illuminating, regarding how he treated his wife and child.)

Sensitivity to certain types of fabric is something than autistic people can and do have. If GW chooses not to wear underwear because he doesn’t like the fabric, that’s up to him. As @Choccyp1g says, he should ensure that his outerwear stays in place.

It's absolutely fine not to wear underwear, so long as you keep your outerwear on.

Apparently his tailor is also ND, and has trouble sewing trouser buttons on correctly.

This explains the whole situation.

I do understand that someone with autism may well have sensory issues and that could mean restrictive clothing is a problem for them. For some, certain foods and textures can’t be tolerated.
I just don’t believe autism explains GW’s indecent exposure or other unacceptable behaviours.