I'd like to talk about fearmongering re violence.
I was looking at some older data in a paper. Tiny writing, but here it is. About behaviour from people with an intellectual disability, 1992. About 11 out of every 100 had physically assaulted someone. Is that lots? /

What number of people normally get involved in physically assaulting someone? Is it less than that?
Nope. For example,
"In 2003, 33 out every 100 high school students reported being in a physical fight at least once in the past year..." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749379707002371 (2003)

Here's a paper from 2017. Again, young people and interpersonal violence. 27 out of every 100 males and 12 out of every 100 females were involved in some (whether aggressively, defensively or otherwise).
So, which group did you think was going to be 'more violent'?

It's a pattern I see a lot, where marginalised minorities are believed to be some kind of danger, even though evidence may point in the opposite direction.
Those myths underpin a lot of how we 'treat' autistic people and those with intellectual disabilities.
We can do better.

That narrative needs changing.
It needs challenging.
It needs basing firmly in truth rather than manipulation, fearmongering and myth.
Because if people approach a marginalised group, imagining ony 'danger', no good result can happen.

We need to understand that a teenager in a school can have a fight, and be given a detention and that's the end of it.
But an autistic young person under scrunity by teams need only push someone once in distress, ever, and forever they are marked as Dangerous and Violent.

I was in such a case last year, where a peaceful autistic teenager had been anxious about moving to a new accommodation, so the team sent in the 'heavy mob' to march into the room, grab them, and force them. They struggled. The struggle was marked down as 'violent resistance'.

And that will stay on their records forever, now resulting in increased security-forces round them (I won't call it care in that instance), and increased lockdown.

Whilst good care teams exist, we need to be so mindful of labelling people entirely unjustly.

...and escalating a minor situation into an eventual 'all-singing, all dancing' spiral of restriction, restrain and risk-narratives.
Get really good advice on relaxation and de-escalation, from teams such as @AT_Autism and @studioIII