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“Another way of looking at these impaired communication skills is to understand that people who have this type of pragmatic language deficit suffer from mindblindness (Baron-Cohen, 1995) as most AS individuals do (Attwood, 2007). These people are unable to read social situations properly, and so making friends and fitting in within a culture that values fitting in is difficult as best and impossible at worse. When high school students who are otherwise average to above-average intellectually cannot communicate with peers or teachers, it leads to social isolation and often depression (Kim, Szatmari, Byrson, Streiner, & Wilson, 2000; Wing, 1981).”(Simon, 2008) One of the main reasons that children with Asperger Syndrome are more commonly the victim and not the victimizer, as some people may think, is because of the culture we live in where non-verbal cues are key, and if a person has issues expressing or reading the non-verbal cues it makes it very difficult for them to function. They live in a society where “fitting in” rules and not being accepted by peers can lead to shunning and in some cases with high school students, bullying. Statistics show that children with special needs are bullied more than general education students in high school. If a child cannot express how they are feeling they get frustrated and teachers and students take it as anger and often do not know how to handle it. One case of Asperger Syndrome in the court system was of a man name Darius McCollum who has spent most of his 47 years of life behind bars but not because of him committing a violent crime. Mr. McCollum has an obsession with trains and busses and because of this obsession he has a tendency of taking them for joy rides with passengers on board. For this he ends up in jail with charges like grand theft larceny. The defense lawyers say he is harmless and just needs treatment like anyone else but the courts have a hard time recognizing his disorder. As Lori Shery founder of Asperger Syndrome Education Network says “The courts really don’t understand the autism spectrum disorder.” (Haberman, 2012). It is hard for people to understand things that are not within the social norm which includes people with disabilities and especially those on the Autism spectrum Asperger Syndrome. People may say that those with Asperger Syndrome are victimizers and have a violent tendency but there is no real proof to back up this claim. However, saying that the differences displayed by those with Asperger Syndrome can lead to victimization has been proven through research studies.