BBC’s gone and done a real fucking dick move.

On their article on Elliot Rodger (link), they included a full profile of Aspergers Syndrome as if to suggest it had some part in why he was a fucking murderer.

I’m popping them this long-ass complaint:

The inclusion of a profile on Aspergers Syndrome in an article regarding a violent murder intrinsically links the two in the mind of anyone reading. It serves to tar people on the autistic spectrum with the potential to murderous tendencies. This increases fear and misunderstanding of autism, and autistic people are already at a significantly higher risk of becoming victims of abuse or violence without the BBC throwing fuel on the fire. Elliot Rodger’s Aspergers should be considered largely if not entirely irrelevant; this was a premeditated murder, and any act of violence committed as a result of autism is almost invariably a spur-of-the-moment occurrence due to sensory overstimulation (known as a “meltdown”), with no premeditation. Elliot’s violence was a result of misogyny fostered by an online community of like-minded men. Sources are available for this, his whole YouTube channel was full of it, but you haven’t even mentioned that in the article. This is really pretty shoddy journalism.

If y’all could hop over to theircomplaints pageand bombard them with similar it’d be much appreciated. I’m fucking sick of news organisations demonising Aspergers, and I expect better of the BBC.

this is really really really important