An autistic child will never know the joy of being mean to someone for absolutely no reason, therapists have said.
Seven-year-old Mary Walker has all the wit, bluntness and evil instincts of a top-tier bully, but experts say she is unlikely to ever fulfil her potential, due to other children being able to smell the autism on her.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Hoyland commented: “Mary could have been a highly successful bully, were she not herself at the bottom of the food chain.”
“After several sessions with Mary, I’ve found her to be mean, incisive and oddly specific,” Dr. Hoyland continued. “I don’t know how she found out about my degree being from Oxford Brookes, but boy did she rub salt in that wound.”
“Excuse me a minute,” Hoyland added, before walking into the bathroom, locking the door and audibly weeping.
Walker commented: “If I were less dweeby, her head would be getting such a flushing.”
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