Posted a 'you shouldnt really do x' message then I logged like a wuss. Held it off for hours. my reward is going to cook spaghetti I suppose. At the moment I feel kinda...sad, a weird empty and detached. Plus denial because I don't want to admit this is something that's in my space, if I sit too lon...

Yeah, it's...a fucking mess, if this was some random person we could interact with or who explicitly identified it as not-good in his (probably skewed) accounts I imagine the rest would be taking a different tone or not falling for the 'grey area' bullshit. On top of that...He mentioned "Dude I...

I moderate an online group and something came up that's disturbing me. I think one of the members inadvertently confessed to assaulting someone that didn't have the capacity for consent. I'll post a chatlog and bold points I find relevant, names are changed. On top of that I feel the story he's pres...

It sucks that people against minorities would try to twist a callout to support transphobia but that isn't your fault. If they didn't use this they would be using something else - fabricating bathroom scares comes to mind. Any backlash isn't your fault, he made a choice to behave in a shitty abusive...

And if he didn't apply force is it still abuse? It's still abuse. I don't know how you stop self-blame effectively but something that helps me sometimes is to try avoid kicking myself for feeling bad, that tends to exarcebate the bad feelings. External validation can help with self-blame feelings, ...

Do you know which local authority you live in? That'd be very helpful to know, and you'll also need to know that. If you don't, putting your town/city in a search engine along with "local authority" should tell you. If you're comfortable saying here what town/city you live in, I'm also ha...

Can't edit posts so I'll prattle on for a bit I guess - the mum isn't really helpful, I point out I'm not talking to her until she admits she was wrong and she just uses the fact I didn't lock doors at various points as an excuse for what she did. Or "you could have went in the car". Had a...

Little update to say I am back home at the moment, parents (Don't want to type that but no other word works grammatically) are back tonight. I did get an email response but I'm not entirely sure what route to chase up first - a lot of links were dropped, recommendations appreciated. I'll quote the e...

I've emailed nas@nas.org.uk (National Autistic society email listed on a site, the initial automated response mentions it may be "3-5 working days" before they reply. The place/relatives I'm staying with isn't bad so I'm okay with a wait period really (Honestly, I get they're technically e...

Thanks. I'll try to hold off on the 'ask the police station' thing until I've contacted someplace else first - it seems like the best since when I can't explain myself I get frustrated and communication tanks so I see what you're getting at there. (and it tanks extra if I get a dismissive response) ...

Thanks for the response, the validation is nice. I veered off into rambling territory so I'll try to more succintly adress questions here. Can I first check with you if you're legally responsible for your own self or whether either of your parents or anyone else has any legal guardianship or Power o...

If this doesn't count as abuse feel free to shuffle this thread into another section. Swearing and physical abuse mentions ahead. oh and self harm I guess. OP is in Scotland. I'm 23 and autistic, last week my mum said she was going on holiday for 9 days - I'm not very great at the whole independence...

Hm, thanks. That's a little less foreboding an answer than I thought I'd get, so that's looking a bit brighter I guess.

This is a follow-up to http://www.scarleteen.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1314 , which should give an idea of how long its' been. So, yeah. My friend had an abortion since...before January 13th, I don't think any periods have happened since then. They aren't on contraceptive pills/jabs, just using...

Thanks for the advice. Even if it's not insta-sue material I'm glad to see some sort of 'here is a course of action that could be taken/options' illustrated out. Thanks a bunch for doing that.

If you don't have/can't answer for the legal aspects, that's fine - but I'd like some sort of response if you can. To preface, friend is in England. My friend had an abortion - they told her the foetus had less weeks than it did, perhaps it looked a little more developed she wound up traumatized fro...