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Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS
Tbh, I have more sympathy for retards than crackheads - both use the "mental illness" line. Except one is totally uncontrollable and of no fault of their own, and the other one is just a waste of life crackhead.
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Yes but...drug addiction is also an illness and most people don't choose to be addicted to crack (or most other drugs).
Back to the incident - that sucks that it happened and we should probably brace ourselves for more of this over time. Autism rates are now as high as 1 in 31 (that's using 2022 data - it was 1 in 150 kids back in 2000) for kids that are now 9 years old and while most cases are not severe we're going to see more autistic adults and teens as the years go on (while not having any kind of cure or better understanding of how to manage it).
We can't just lock up everyone that has autism b/c we're afraid that they might have an episode like this (as many comments advocate).