As someone who *is* an autist, has had to take a few shares of abuse from teacher and bully alike and seeing all forms of autism in action, from the higher-functioning (which is where I'm thankfully at) to the mute to the kind that required facilitated communicators,** I must say I feel some sympathy and empathy, but not much nowadays. Hell, I can properly say I have more experience dealing with autism than most thugs professionals, as my family has a long line of mental issues and autism, and my entire childhood school years had me pitted in such classes against cases so severe, they (the "students") could barely talk or in one case, shat himself so frequently, a budget had to be put aside for depends and wipes! And to make things worse, he was the touchy kind of boy, with FILTHY, dookie-smelling hands that touched all over the toys. No wonder my 3rd grade class had the highest risk of pinkeye, everything we touched basically had shit all over it. I could also go on about how often I was a target for female bullies (since they have a thing for targeting special needs boys), or I had to literally shake some sense into autist who was freaking out for reasons unknown and get him functioning before the thugs came in the classroom to kick his ass, or the part where I spend several years of my childhood loopier than a shoelace due to all the required meds being pumped into me, but those are stories for another time.
I could also spend my time making potshots at Chris-chan since he's literally the poster boy for reasons why not many would want a thing to do with an autist, and everything to do with abuse against them and me when I was younger, but I won't. Preferably, I wanna prosecutor to take a good, long look at the first few links when he/she types in Christian Weston Chandler with a pot of strong coffee brewed and a therapist on speed dial, because he/she's gonna need it.
** Personally, I think facilitated communication is a crock of shit, as the one doing the "interpreting" could easily make the victim interpretee in question say literally anything, up to and including sex abuse [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wendrows-sex-abuse-cases-dismissed-facilitated-communication/story?id=15274276].