lol, this is the worst place for the worst idea in all of time. people with autism would be better fit wearing armbands. this is sickness.
lol, this is the worst place for the worst idea in all of time. people with autism would be better fit wearing armbands. this is sickness.
Is this bad? (As long as not mandatory)
A recognisable card in my wallet that i can non verbally show to officers to help them understand why i am not responding/communicating as they expect sounds like a boon.
I believe in the Netherlands there are places where they have lanyards with sunflowers motive that signal hidden disabilities in general. Its purposefully subtle, mostly only service workers and others that need them know to recognise it.
A too identifiable armband specifically for autism sounds to visual and public, especially considering people with autism make great targets for the criminal minded.
What does strike as odd in this bill is removing the clause for training to collaborate with an autism supporting organization… but considering they chose blue, which is the color “autism speaks” uses for us, which is a very toxic and damaging organization in the us that may be understandable.
It shouldn’t be on the person with a disability to teach a police officer how to deal with their disability. It should be the responsibility of the police to learn tolerance and not resort to violence if someone doesn’t immediately react to violent threats the way they expect them to.
They’re not though? It just make it easier for the e.g. police to know that there is a disability so they can act according to it with the training they’ve already received.
They literally are. If they weren’t, this could have been done entirely with deescalation training.
Because NDs respond so well to cookie-cutter training generally made for interaction with NTs…
Knowing up front that your regular training will/might need some adaption would be a benefit.
My point is that knowing that your training is incomplete and needs to be supplemented with compassion, patience and empathy could also be a part of training. If they have training that says “look for this card”, it could just as easily be retooled to say “look for these symptoms”.
A simple blue card is just infinitely easier to identify than behavior that people are either consciously or subconsciously masking.
I would be afraid to reach for my wallet around the cops tbh
I agree but I think the best practice for now is to ask before you move. Along the lines of, “My wallet is in my front pocket, may I get it?”
Which a nonverbal autistic person totally has the ability to do… What’s the point of the blue envelope if they can already respond calmly to cops?