For those of you who don't know there is a well known affliction of those with autism known as autism meltdown. It is defined as follows:

 "An autistic meltdown is an intense response to an overwhelming sensory or emotional stimuli. When this happens, the autistic person temporarily loses all control of their behavior. It is most stereotypically depicted as the way autistic children behave during meltdowns1. During a meltdown, an individual with autism may become completely overwhelmed by their situation, leading to a loss of control over their behavior. To cope with such overwhelming situations, they might engage in repetitive body movements (known as stimming), and interrupting this behavior could increase their anxiety and exacerbate the situation2"

In my case, this is evidenced by a furious insistence on being listened to. And If left to continue this way eventually leading to a non-epileptic fit if that doesn't happen.

Most officers attending here after I have phoned 101 or 999 have said they have received autism training. None have recognised this condition, resulting in several essential 999 ambulance calls for my recovery. in fact yesterday when I experienced exactly that the immediate reaction of the officer attending was instead to threaten to arrest me for being out of control!

For those of you interested in sociological/academic research the full 60 minute video of what happened from when the police arrived until. And here is the seventeen minute video of the initial Assault and battery event.

What had happened was that the individual who has been stalking and harassing me for the last three years spotted that another neighbour had come for a chat, laid in wait until the neighbour was leaving and then came rushing out and forced his way into our front porch and refused to leave. A prolonged shouting match ensued and my father/carer was sufficiently worried to push me back into the house and shut the front door behind me so there was no chance that the perpetrator could get at me. Because it is me that the perpetrator is obsessively fixated with attacking he felt safe in remaining outside and was eventually able to get rid of the perpetrator once he realised his opportunity to get at me was lost.

In the meantime I rang 999.

Officers arrived and we were able to show them immediately the CCTV footage of the incident in question. Without waiting to see all of it I was immediately challenged as to why the perpetrator was complaining about me posting ,:Images of his child on the Internet" and then refused to let me answer to explain that was not what had happened.

I have become particularly sensitised to officers treating me as a perpetrator and not a victim and asking questions and then not waiting for the answer and a meltdown was triggered. My father had to separate the two officers and take out the one who had triggered the meltdown and fill him in on all the gory background detail and the crimes that had been committed against me over the last 3 years, which eventually allowed him to return to complete the visit.

in the meantime the other officer who was attending was still talking to me and failing to let me complete my explanations but luckily from the enraged state she was inducing realised that she was getting it wrong and started to listen.

Eventually they both watched the whole incident through on the CCTV footage and confirmed I should submit this to the police via an Axon link but I would have to wait until the officer in charge of the investigation against this perpetrator could provide it.

Once again we then had the situation where the officer who was meant to be protecting me spoke to the perpetrator on the telephone with apparently the sole purpose of calming him down and suggesting that this was a 50/50 event, rather than confirming that the perpetrator's actions on our doorstep in breach of his restrictions amounted to a criminal offence.

As I subsequently asked, if the police don't automatically suggest to a rapist that they would consider his victim equally liable, why can they do that to a perpetrator of an assault?