Bullying is fairly common at schools regardless of grade level. Sometimes, it gets reported and dealt with appropriately. Otherwise, it does not get reported and continues with impunity. Sometimes, it gets swept under the rug when it does get reported. This situation is truly a socially problematic one, especially with autistic children, teens, and young adults being bullied (some in ways in which are especially vicious), as indicated in recent online news reports I have been reading. A long time ago, I was a victim of bullying myself. In high school, I got into a couple of fights with such bullies. On a few occasions, I witnessed a college with autism being bullied, prompting me to stand up to them. But since then, I have moved on with my life, preparing myself for future prospects such as a career in the video game industry. Occasionally, memories of the most violent bullying linger come back to me. Upon reading recent news stories of autistic children and teens being bullied, these incidents are, to say the least, more monstrous than what I have gone through. If I were in the position of those victims myself, the experience would have been horrific and my future would have been placed in jeopardy. The following stories are by far the most disturbing accounts of bullying autistic children and teens ever to be read by anyone with an autistic relative and anyone who is autistic.
