All good fare. But autism carries responsibilities, and employers who are enlightened enough to employ autistics who are capable of holding down a job also need to protect others they will be working with. This may not happen and in my case didn't. I lost my job when the guy thought I was the re-incarnation of his ex-Bushido Aikido instructor. When I spoke to said instructor I found the guy had decided to carry-on the instruction in a dark alley. When the instructor was presented in court he did have a passing resemblance to me, which could have been resolved by asking me in the first place - but poor (non-existent in this case) social interaction is the defining symptom, is it not?

As an altruistic folkie I ignored the warning signs, as a mark of my tolerance. As the security staff said - "you should have told us, we would have sacked him before he hit you".

Who is the victim now?

There is more to teach the general public than tolerance on this subject. Try teaching them how to educate autistic people, anew, every day, in the etiquette that we take for granted.

And come back here and report on the success rate.

Tolerance is only half the story. The received wisdom is that anti-social behaviour can and in these cases is more likely to, escalate unless it is checked regularly.

I bear witness.