A few days ago the UK’s Daily Mail published an article called “Recipe for a serial killer? Childhood abuse, autism and head injuries are more common in murderers, study claims”.

The autism advocate Anna Kennedy OBE has published a brilliant riposte to the article here on her site written by Jo Worgan. You can follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mummyworgan. You can read her blog here.

But attacks on the autism community seems to be on the rise. Both in terms of what is being said about people with autism by “experts” but also be organised groups online.

Indeed this site was the victim of DDoS attack on World Autism Day which meant it was down for over six hours. A month of so our Facebook page AutismTalk was targeted by a group people who hated those on the autistic spectrum and pretty much destroyed.

I’ll be honest I have no idea what to do about this. So I’m asking my readers. How should the ASD community defend itself from attack and misrepresentation?

Please use the comments box here to share your thoughts. The podium is yours!

A few older comments are below!

JasonLBDanison	Needs to be legit legal help that can express empathy in a cause that is constantly warped over being so esoteric.
emma280169	ErikAllenSmith We shouldn’t have to jump through hoops in order to be considered worthy of respect though.
ErikAllenSmith	Or we could attack the credibility of our detractors.
ErikAllenSmith	One thing we could do is to try to balance the scales by introducing people to exceptional spectrumites, ones that have done good for mankind.
Applecrap13	It seems defeatist, but possibly the best way forward is to ignore, they get bored and go elsewhere. If you pick a fight with such vindictive ignorant people they retaliate. ASD family members means most of us don’t have time to argue the toss with trolls.