Autistischer Junge „wollte seiner Mutter Züge zeigen“, bevor sie ihn erstickte, teilte das Gericht mit

>”He does not fit in the world and where he doesn’t fit I don’t either.”

Speaking as an autistic adult who grew up different from all my “peers”, this news story pains me to read, but I can also see where the mother was coming from.

A tragic event, and I feel so desperate sorry for the whole family.

That poor child and that poor mother. Support for mother’s in this country is appalling. She should have been cared for after her first threat on her own life. She didn’t fail as a mother, we failed as a society.

Edit to add: I’ve been threatened with reporting to social services for having a degree of sympathy for a woman with mental health issues who did something unspeakable awful to her poor, poor child after she was abandoned by the NHS. Says it all about support for mothers really.

„He [Lincoln] does not fit in the world and where he doesn’t fit I don’t either.“

He had earlier told the jury it appeared „the challenges of caring for an autistic child had caused the defendant to become depressed and she chose to murder her child“.

That was a sad read.

She was diagnosed with depression, clearly stressed & heard some voices that told her she needed to kill her child & herself. Though, a psychiatrist did not feel her symptoms met the threshold for psychosis. The voices were most likely intrusive but her own.

She’s claiming manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility. I’m not sure how I feel about this, without more information on the case.

What struck me as strange was how she labelled her child as a burden, effectively assigning blame for her own misery onto him. This, to me, feels egocentric & perhaps even slightly opportunistic because it serves as a strategy to absolve her from the responsibility of introspection & managing her own illness.

I would query whether she is projecting an image onto him, that he is a burden when, in fact, that’s a reflection of how she herself feels.

The reality of the situation is she killed her child, and we do not know what life he could have had.

The picture and the the fact the mother killed him was bad enough, my dude. There was no need for me to see the rest of that headline. Goddamnit.

I saw this on r/All. I’m a Brit in Asia for 20 yrs and as I read this awful headline I knew before looking that this was the UK. I’m tempted to block this depressing sub from my feed. I miss the UK I remember but have no desire to return.