The hostage negotiation course should be available to everyone with autism cause it helps show that your understand instead of going yep yep yep. Also everybody who regularly deals with people on the spectrum should be required to take the course too. This is because it's all about taking a hands off approach instead of grabbing someone and pinning them down like happened to @minimaxkiddo so many times he lost count at his special needs school. When in all likely they agrivated it to the point of violence.
So true buddy, Everyone should watch this :). The way we say things are so important. as someone who Is autidtic I can often come off as rude because i don't always know what tone to use, then I get surprised of the outcome and mad at myself and the other person for not understanding that I didn't meant to be rude or condecending. There is soo many situations that I can recall that could easily have been diffused with a more hands off approach instead of wanting to control or steer me into something that wasn't comfortable or right for me. I can also recall a lot of situation where I could have done differently, but i guess we all try to work as best with the tools we got at hand. Mine might not always be as easily accessible in certain situations or environments, and I only hope the people around me will be understanding and try not to take the offensive approach. Being pinned down is one of the worst experiences one can encounter when all you want to do is get away from a certain place or situation. Sometimes it baffles me thinking back why anyone would think that'd be the right use of force or approach to someone who isn't violent.. I also recall a certain episode where I was being forced to stay in a small room, and when I wanted to leave and tried to make my way through where my teacher was blocking the exit, his response was then to hit me :/.. needless to say It upset me a lot, and i quickly learned that some people would rather escalate a situation instead of just diffusing it or try to understand what it is that you want. I don't think there was many in my class that didn't experience stuff like use of force at least once, and when I was at the psychiatric hospital school i didn't think there was anyone that didn't try it, that says a lot. One thing is clear to me, anyone handling troubled or special needs children should be way better trained in diffusing a potential escalating situations.
My biggest issue with how you were handled is you were in a physciatric hospital then a special needs school and that's where it happened the people that should be the best at descalation. It didn't happen at your regular school or with a cop on the street it happened in an environment that should be the best suited to deal with the situation.
