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authorNicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch>2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000
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There's supposed to be autism training in police departments to reduce this problem. However, from what I've read, the training is inconsistent. For someone like me who is autistic and decent at masking (pretending I'm not autistic) in public, police will never realize I'm autistic unless I disclose it. In other words, their training is useless unless I disclose my autism.
-It's always my discretion whether or not to inform the police that I'm autistic, but it poses a dilemma:
+It's always my discretion whether to inform the police that I'm autistic, but it poses a dilemma:
Suppose I disclose my autism to a police officer. Many neurotypicals, perhaps even most, treat autistic people poorly. It has been my personal experience that, if a neurotypical becomes angry enough at me, they will eventually make fun of my autism or try to use it as a weapon against me. How do I know the police won't do the same? I've certainly heard cases where they did treat known autistic people worse. So maybe it's better that they don't know.