In a short time I have found signs that children who have autism or those who suffer from allergies may be subject to stalkers Because of your health problem. I have not been able to avoid remembering this post where suicides were reported in children who were only 11 years old, due to the harassment they suffered from homophobia.
Children are, after all, and not so different from each other because they have in common a life ahead and many illusions to fulfill. A society that ensures integrating differences, and accommodating everyone, he should not allow his young people to be able to harass those who are different, for whatever reason, from the rest. However, I have to tell you that today's children will build the future, but the present they have has given them, by this I mean that we who have more responsibility in these issues are adults.
Parents are the ones who show whether or not they accept others, those who incite violence, those who don't let children tell their problems, those who do not go to the teacher to tell him that our son has told us that his friend is hit in the yard, those who show disdain towards the classmates of children who have difficulties to move forward, those who instead of valuing the dialogue We prefer to impose our criteria. A study in children and adolescents in the United States has found that Almost half of children with autism suffer bullying. This proportion is four times higher than in children without autism in the same cities, in the same schools, in the same classes. The levels of harassment were very variable and among the strategies observed, children who were burdened until they had a tantrum or were forced into a situation of aggression or self-aggression have been described.
The study has shown that bullying was more frequent in children who were integrated into a normal class than in those who spent more hours in classes for students with special educational needs. An added problem is that children with autism may have difficulty expressing and transmitting what happens to them. in class so it is even possible that this high percentage is actually even greater.
This is a research that has taken a large sample, so it can be generalized more than in previous studies
On the other hand, the journal Pediatrics (of the American Academy of Pediatrics) has revealed data from another recent study, and ensure that the social vulnerability inherent in a diet adapted by food allergies predisposes children to be victims of bullying.
Participants in the research answered questions in an allergist's office, and 45.4% said they had suffered bullying, or had been bothered or intimidated. From them, 31.5% clearly stated that the cause was their food allergy.
In these cases, it is necessary for parents to keep up to date with the possible negative experiences of their children in school, in order to act as early as possible
Let us forget that They are not children's things, and neither that families, as well as school and society, are responsible for preventing these problems. Communication with the children is also very important, and that the victims know how to act.
