STOP MIS GENDERING ME JUST SAY SHE

Autistic my arse! There are hordes of men like this stomping and tantrumming at Pride and at women's rights events. Waving threatening signs and banners.
Vandalising places that are hosting events they disapprove of, staging piss protests, threatening women online and in person.

Are they ALL autistic, or are they just entitled arseholes who've been indulged for years in this behaviour until they see it as a normal and acceptable response to being told no?

At the risk of repeating myself: the links between trans identities and autism are strong and well-known. They have been discussed in depth on this forum.

If a person says they are trans, it is significantly likely they are also on the spectrum.

Combined with the behaviour in the video, I would be prepared to bet my house that the subject is autistic.

It is insulting.

Where did I say he gets to behave however he likes? Receipts please.

I have a fairly good idea about whether or not he is autistic based on the trans identity and the behaviour in the video, and nor am I the only one to reach this conclusion on this thread.

I'm not sure you can brush away ableism as a "guilt trip".

What exactly makes you think he is autistic? Do you think all autistic people behave like this??

He is a grown man having a tantrum because he was told no IMO

A male can never be a female.

If they don’t identify as mentally ill they aren’t, and to claim anything else is a hate crime….

No.

Men do not get to behave however they like because they are

A) men
B) trans or
C) autistic

You have no idea whether this man is autistic or not. Take your guilt trip somewhere else. It's utterly insulting.

If your gran was stood there also trying to get pasta while pushing her walker, would you care for her safety though? You can’t just let people shout, scream and roll around in the vicinity of other vulnerable people. He resisted any kind of help whatsoever. Do you think the staff thought oh he’s coming, call the police? No, they probably tried really hard to calm him down before calling.

I don’t know what the criteria for releasing these videos is, does something specific have to happen to trigger a video release? I don’t know. But if you want to blame anyone I think it should be the healthcare inequalities in the US. If you have good insurance you are scrabbling around at the end of the year to have an extra therapy session or a mole removed or a new brace just to use up your entitlement. If you don’t have it, tough. Just go and drown in a swamp or something.

This.
It’s so bizarre how often people jump at the opportunity to label any behaviour as an indicator of autism , as if that would excuse them from any wrongdoing. It’s really worrying

Well trans people do not believe they are mentally ill for being trans so thats actually very transphobic of you.

He would say he is perfectly sane and reasonable for demanding you use his preferred pronouns.

110% agree, I also have autistic family members and it is an insult to liken that behaviour to it. The person in the video is mentally ill and it has nothing to do with ND or NT.

Mentally ill or autistic - neither is an occasion to post them on the internet to make them a subject of derision.

I think a lot of people who have had experience of interacting with their own children/teens with a demand avoidant presentation of autism can recognise from experience that this person probably is autistic. It was certainly my gut feeling and reminded me of meltdowns I have tried (as badly as this stressed police officer!) to handle.

Whether or not he is also entitled (in addition to being massively emotionally disregulated) could probably only be assessed when talking with him in a calm state.

I don't doubt that the culture of entitlement in the trans ecosphere will have harmed him -- making it harder for him to practice self-regulation by encouraging him to think that other people are under an obligation to validate him in his trans identity.

I'm autistic and so are all 4 of my kids. Its tiring and stressful being ND but believe me, non of us would EVER behave this way.

I'm so sick of autism being used as some cover for poor behaviour, especially by entitled, boundary pushing men.

You cannot speculate though, and make sweeping generalisations. This person is clearly mentally ill.

If this was your daughter who was having a meltdown in Asda because they didn't have the right kind of pasta, would you be happy for her to be plastered on the internet and called a Karen?

Very vulnerable bloke in distress yes. The police at the end were discussing where to take him, I caught ‘not gen pop’ but I’m not sure of the other terms, they were saying he needs care (I think).

Still, where was the mockery?

I'm assuming that someone who says they are trans is very likely autistic.

The coincidence of autism with trans identities has been discussed in depth on this forum, which as a regular poster I'm surprised you don't know.

I do understand why a pp is uncomfortable it makes me uncomfortable too. That said I can’t help but think this is the sort of person who is crazily aggressive with whoever misgenders him. That day it was a cop who clearly has all the power but a woman in a changing room or public toilet?

Looks very manly under that wig

This^ Let's not bring ND into it please.

I saw no mockery. I saw tired and wary university staff and students, and police who quite frankly have other shit to be getting on with. Who was mocking? At what point in the video?

To be clear, you're assuming that someone behaving badly must be autistic?