Correlation Between Autism And Violence

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Have you ever met someone with autism? Did you think they were extremely outlandish? They may seem strange but they're people too even if it may seem like a stretch. A lot of things people don't understand about autism is that even though it can be scary to individuals outside, looking into the mind of a person with autism, “Autism is not associated with violence, not predictive of violence” (Goonan 3). This is because it doesn't matter who or what you are, a mental disease doesn't make you violent, anything can contribute to it as the article “ Amherst author John Elder Robison says Asperger's syndrome was not a factor in Newtown, Conn. school massacre” talked about. In the article it discussed that autism doesn't make people violent and

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