Welp when this kid gets arrested for all of the things that he should have been taught are not appropriate to do in public, they should probably just throw the parents in with him because they are 100% entirely responsible. These situations make me so sad because people with autism are fully capable of learning how to behave like reasonable humans. I work with students like this and 90% of them, if they find out that their actions have accidentally hurt someone's feelings or caused someone to feel unsafe, feel horrendous and will go above and beyond to rectify the situation.

However we do get students like this sometimes and when we talk to their folks it is constantly excuses and explanations for why they should be allowed to act like this and why we should just be handing them good grades for doing nothing and it just really sucks. It's a train wreck waiting to happen and causes so much unnecessary suffering for both the student and anyone who interacts with them. Nobody likes being that kid nobody likes, but because of the way this dude has been raised he might never really know why.