Dover Gets 6,000 Channel Crossings This Year

More than 600 small boat migrants reached the UK yesterday, pushing this year’s running total past the 6,000 mark.

On Saturday, Border Force ships picked up nine boatloads of migrants in the middle of the Channel and brought them onshore at the Port of Dover.

The Home Office confirmed there were 602 arrivals – the second-highest daily total so far this year, just below the 605 who completed the journey from northern France on February 25.

The latest arrivals brought the total so far this year to 6,077.

It also means that since Labour came to power, 70,701 migrants have crossed the Channel to reach Britain.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘This is yet another day of shame for this weak Prime Minister and Home Secretary.

‘They have no control whatsoever over our borders.

‘Illegal Channel crossings are up by 45 per cent since the general election.

‘Labour’s claims to smash the gangs lie in tatters.’

He added: ‘We need to urgently leave the ECHR, which will enable us to deport these illegal immigrants within a week of arrival. Then the crossings will soon stop.

‘That is the Conservative plan, but Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer are too weak to do it.’

It comes after Ms Mahmood was forced to agree to a temporary deal with the French government to continue beach patrols funded by the UK taxpayer.

A previous multi-year deal with Emmanuel Macron’s government, signed in 2023, expired at the end of last month.

The £478 million package was also expected to pay for a new detention centre in France, which has still not opened.

In the new negotiations, Labour has been demanding performance-related payments, which will see funding payments staggered according to the number of migrants who are prevented from leaving the French beaches, but the French have refused to accept Ms Mahmood’s demands.

The interim deal will run for two months – costing the British taxpayer £16.2 million – as attempts are made to thrash out a longer-term agreement.

Last month, Ms Mahmood launched a separate scheme offering failed asylum seekers’ families up to £40,000 to voluntarily leave Britain, but she refused to reveal how many had taken up the offer.

Most failed asylum seeker families who are offered the cash are living in migrant hotels at an average cost of £158,000 a year per family.

Under Ms Mahmood’s scheme, they will receive £10,000 per head up to a maximum of £40,000, plus air tickets home.

This would all go away if our government rescinded the right to claim asylum in the UK and replaced it with a limited number system based on resources, where they would have to apply from abroad, not once they got here, and anyone who arrives from France, arrest them, detain them and then deport them back to their home country immediately. No ifs and no buts!

Unfortunately, the channel situation is quite complicated because you can’t return these people to the embarkation point from which they came. Unlike at an airport.

In international aviation and maritime practice, carriers are responsible for returning objectionable passengers to the point where they boarded when they arrive at a port of entry and are denied admission.

  • People who arrive through an official port,
  • Are presented for inspection,
  • And are refused entry by border authorities.

Small‑boat arrivals in the Channel do not fall under this category, because they are not transported by a carrier and do not arrive through a port.

Sea crossings in small boats are treated as search‑and‑rescue, not as port arrivals

Under maritime law:

  • When a vessel is in distress, the priority is rescue, not immigration enforcement.
  • The UK is obliged to bring people to the nearest safe port capable of providing assistance.

In the Dover Strait, that is almost always the UK, not France, because:

  • UK vessels are usually the ones conducting the rescue,
  • The UK coast is often closer at the moment of interception,
  • The UK has operational responsibility for many rescue zones.

This is why the “return to France” rule cannot simply be applied.

Six Adults And 50 Infants Were Found ‘Illegally Dumped’ In Trinidad And Tobago

The remains of at least 50 infants and six adults were found on Saturday after they had seemingly been dumped at a cemetery in Trinidad and Tobago.

A preliminary investigation revealed it ‘may be a case involving the unlawful disposal of unclaimed corpses,’ the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service said in a statement.

The gruesome find was made at Cumuto Cemetery, approximately 25 miles from the capital, Port of Spain, in Trinidad.

Police said the six adult remains included four male and two female corpses, with all but one of the men found with identification tags.

There were indications that two of the bodies—one male and one female—had undergone postmortems.

They did not immediately say if any of the bodies had been identified.

‘The TTPS stresses that this is an active and developing investigation, and further forensic analysis is underway to determine the origin of the remains and any associated breaches of law or procedure,’ the statement said.

Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro called the discovery ‘deeply troubling,’ saying his agency was handling the case ‘with urgency, sensitivity and unwavering commitment to uncovering the truth.’

‘Every cadaver must be handled with dignity and lawful care,’ he added, saying that ‘any individual or institution found to have violated that duty will be held fully accountable.’

Trinidad and Tobago, an English-speaking archipelago nation located about 10 six miles off the Venezuelan coast, has been plagued in recent years with increasing violent crime, recording 623 murders in 2024 among the inhabitants of 1.5 million.

A US State Department report said the murder rate of 37 per 100,000 people made Trinidad and Tobago the sixth most dangerous nation in the world in 2023.

The murder rate dropped 42 per cent the following year, but Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced a state of emergency in March due to another peak in violent criminality.

Trinidad and Tobago is an extremely dangerous place, and what has transpired here is so sad – let’s hope the people responsible are brought to justice.

‘I Was Kicked Out Of A Bar Because Of My Wheelchair’

An 18‑year‑old woman, Maddie Haining, says she was kicked out of a Manchester nightclub because she uses a wheelchair. She describes the incident as embarrassing, infuriating, and discriminatory.

She had already been inside the venue for a few minutes when staff told her she had to leave because she was a “safety risk”—first without explanation, then later claiming she was a “fire risk.”

Security helped Maddie into the club, although at first, they insisted there was nothing wrong.

After her friend went to buy a drink, security returned and apologetically said they had been told to remove her.

The manager, according to Maddie, was “really, really rude” and refused to explain the decision.

Maddie showed staff the Equality Act 2010 on her phone, which states that wheelchair users cannot be excluded based on evacuation concerns—venues must have inclusive evacuation plans.

She says the manager dismissed this and reiterated the same line without engaging.

Maddie eventually left but asked for staff details so she could file a complaint.

According to the club, an internal inquiry is underway.

Following Maddie’s allegation, Manchester City Council is also investigating the event.

Under the Equality Act 2010, venues must make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. That includes:

Ensuring access

Providing ramps or support where practical

Having evacuation plans that include wheelchair users

Removing someone because they use a wheelchair can be considered disability discrimination.

This case highlights:

  • How often must disabled people advocate for their rights
  • How poorly some venues understand their legal obligations
  • The emotional toll of being singled out in public spaces
  • The gap between written equality law and real‑world practice

Maddie’s frustration is evident: she knew her rights, she showed the law, and she was still ignored. The embarrassment of being escorted out—after already being allowed in—adds to the sense of unfairness.

This isn’t just about one night out. It’s about disabled people being treated as pests to remove rather than customers to accommodate.

I’m sure that many people have their views on this, but before you do, think about how anybody can go from having excellent health to having a serious disability, and this is discrimination at its finest, and the council should take away their license until they address this issue. I’m glad that she called them out. It’s 2026, not 1826, and they should be inclusive and know better.

I myself am a wheelchair user, and clubs should be wheelchair friendly. In fact, everywhere should be wheelchair friendly and accessible, and if they are not, they should be. Not that I would be seen in a club at my age, but I do like comedy nights, but usually they are not accessible.

The UK is a joke when it comes to accessibility, even down to WC admission. Cafe tables are poorly designed, and even most disabled toilets are too small for a wheelchair, and are badly designed. These new homes they are building are not designed with wheelchairs in mind, because they are building rabbit hutches. Suddenly, humans have become an experiment.

According to the legislation, all establishments must be able to accommodate wheelchair users; if they are unable to do so, they must close until they can.

This was clearly a gay bar, which is supposed to be inclusive, but evidently, this bar isn’t inclusive because if it had been, she would have been allowed to stay.

If you live in Rome, do as the Romans do!

The argument today is that if you choose to live in a foreign country, you must accept that country’s laws and cultural customs.

In other words, ‘If you live in Rome, do as the Romans do.’

Many immigrants have come over from other countries over the years, and they have integrated and even speak English, both outside the home and inside the home.

If a foreigner moves to another country, they have a duty to adapt to that country, and they must accept their laws, respect their customs, and learn their language to be able to communicate with people, businesses and government officials. Just seems like common sense to me – by the way, does anyone remember common sense? Yes, we had it years ago, but I’ve seen very little of it lately.

It’s a bit like moving into someone’s home – you would have to respect their rules, and if you didn’t, you were free to leave.

I’m not saying they can’t bring some of their customs with them – that would be foolish to think that they wouldn’t, but they also have to remember that this is the UK, and they need to adapt. What they do inside their own homes is up to them, but outside, they need to embody the British way of life, but these boat people don’t have any respect for our country or the British people who live here.

The problem is that our government permits these individuals to continue as they see fit.

If they had migrated to say Saudi Arabia and they caused trouble, they would have been deported or ended up in prison and given lashes – perhaps they should do that here in the UK.

It’s called tolerance and respect, and how the dice would fall if I were to wear a bikini, say in Afghanistan – many rocks would be thrown at me, I suspect, and in Egypt, even on holiday, you would be stoned for even showing some cleavage.

My great-grandmother was from Romania. They came for a better life, and they did assimilate, but sadly, she could never grasp the English language, but she made herself understood, and she even changed her name to a more anglicised one. She had six children, and she made sure that all of them spoke the English language fluently.

The message is loud and clear – either fall in line or get booted. Could someone explain this to Starmer, please?

Fuel Prices Soar Amid Fears Of Supply Shortages

Due to skyrocketing fuel prices brought on by the Middle East conflict, two of Europe’s largest airlines have cancelled hundreds of flights.

German carrier Lufthansa said today that a regional subsidiary, Lufthansa CityLine, will suspend operations from Saturday due to high kerosene prices and labour disputes.

And Dutch airline KLM has withdrawn 160 flights across the next month as a consequence of growing fuel prices. 

It comes as officials are war-gaming for shortages sparked by the Iran war as early as the late May bank holiday, threatening thousands of families’ getaway plans just as the peak season starts.

They are already facing increased fares because the price of jet fuel has doubled since the conflict began, which airlines are passing on to their customers.

Holidaymakers could also be hit with queues of up to four hours at some European airports, because of new border controls introduced by Brussels.

The head of the global energy watchdog sounded the alarm over jet fuel by saying Europe faces possible shortages in six weeks.

The boss of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, warned that flights may ‘soon’ start being cancelled if oil supplies remain patchy. 

Alluding to the Strait of Hormuz – through which a fifth of the world’s oil travels – not yet being completely re-opened, he said: ‘I can tell you soon we will hear the news that some of the flights from city A to city B might be cancelled as a result of lack of jet fuel.’

He added that Europe has ‘maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left’.

After the Continent’s airport trade association initially issued a warning last week that jet fuel shortages would occur in a matter of weeks, European capitals have started preparing for the possible supply problems.

Airports Council International (ACI) Europe said its members had ‘increasing concerns’ about the availability of jet fuel, warning smaller airports are particularly vulnerable.

Additionally, it was revealed that UK officials are preparing for possible shortages in five or six weeks.

Officials believe less than 10 per cent of flights would have to be cancelled if shortages hit, because British suppliers have adjusted well and ‘diversified’ where they buy the fuel from.

They have told airlines they must give passengers at least two weeks’ notice of any cancellations.

However, when the summer holiday high season intensifies, this may still have an impact on thousands of anticipating travellers.

Airlines are cancelling hundreds of flights, not because of any fuel deficiency, but because the general public is not booking getaways out of caution, plus they are refusing to pay grossly inflated ticket prices – the solution, just twist the facts.

However, operating an airline is not as it seems. It’s an extremely costly industry with thin margins, and the slightest disruptions, such as fuel supply, plane issues et cetera can cause airlines to go bust.

Many people work hard all year round and then just want some time away with their families. Nothing extraordinary, just a few days somewhere other than the UK. Some spend a fortune renewing their family passports, and then Donald Trump, the orange Tango man, throws a wobbly.

Everything that you see and hear is a scam, and we are sleepwalking into communism while the populace ignores the lessons of the COVID con.

Just to remind everyone, during COVID we had lockdown restrictions that they imposed but didn’t adhere to themselves – remember that? And this is just another lockdown wearing another outfit – work from home, don’t travel – you waking up yet?

The Buck Stops Here

Keir Starmer is fighting to cling on in No 10 today as he tries to blame the head of the Foreign Office for the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal.

The Cabinet minister insisted Sir Keir had no idea until Tuesday this week that Mandelson failed his security vetting, saying that was ‘beyond unacceptable’ and Sir Olly had left his position because he had ‘lost the confidence’ of the premier. 

But Sir Keir – who is in Paris for a summit on the Middle East crisis later – is facing a rising outcry for his own resignation, with even Labour MPs privately warning he cannot survive. 

Kemi Badenoch said the PM had ‘lied’ and was ‘taking us for fools’. ‘All roads lead to a resignation,’ she said. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said the ‘buck stops’ in Downing Street.

Sir Keir previously stated that Mandelson passed security vetting, and told the Commons that ‘due process’ was followed. He did not mention the bombshell developments at PMQs on Wednesday.

Mr Jones denied that the PM would have to resign for misleading Parliament, and confirmed Sir Keir will be making a statement to MPs on Monday.

As the Mandelson furore comes back to haunt Labour again, questions have been raised over when Sir Olly will get a massive payoff, with Mr Jones acknowledging that vetting processes were followed.

Whitehall departments have been banned from proceeding with appointments against vetting advice, amid suggestions that this has happened in other cases, and Sir Keir has been accused of breaking the ministerial code for not alerting MPs to the vetting issue earlier.

The minister told LBC: ‘Given the nature of the problem here, not just in terms of the appointment, but the position that it has put the Prime Minister and Cabinet ministers in as a consequence of the decision to overrule the recommendation of UK Security Vetting, and the fact that the system even allowed for that to happen in the first place, it’s of a scale of a problem that we’ve not experienced in government before.

‘It is beyond unacceptable.’

Questioned on BBC Breakfast whether the PM is going to resign, and whether he has either knowingly or unknowingly deceived MPs, Mr Jones replied ‘no’.

‘The Prime Minister was right… because the security and vetting process had been conducted and the Foreign Office granted what’s called developed vetting status to allow for Peter Mandelson’s appointment, so he had been through the process and he had been cleared by the Foreign Office to start the role, so the Prime Minister was right about that,’ he said.

‘What the Prime Minister was not told until Tuesday evening this week was that the Foreign Office’s decision to give that developed vetting status, and to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador, was against the recommendations of security and vetting officials.’

He told Sky News that even though security officials recommended that Mandelson be refused developed vetting status, he was allowed to see the most sensitive documents.

It doesn’t matter who they are; they all stink of immorality and deception.

There needs to be a General Election, and there needs to be one now! But we all know there won’t be one before 2029 because Labour won’t allow it, and they will alter the rules, violate laws and carry on nonetheless.

Anything that this man does is quite frankly unforgivable and no longer acceptable, and if he wants to leave his integrity intact, he needs to resign now and call a General Election, but the irony of this is that if it were the Conservatives doing this, Starmer and his comrades would be the first to say resign.

Man Stuck In Flat For Weeks Due To Broken Lift

The 28-year-old is one of several disabled residents unable to leave their homes within the block on Wrotham Road in Camden.

Grimshaw, who has lived on the third floor for seven years, said being unable to leave his home was “really affecting my mental health”.

A spokesperson for Camden Council said the lift stopped working on 16 March after a roof leak caused damage to its control system, and apologised to residents. They said the authority hoped to be able to fix the lift “this week”.

Grimshaw said: “It’s been incredibly emotionally debilitating, because they keep telling me one thing and then they say another. It just never comes to a resolution.

“I haven’t really seen many people. I can’t do the things that I would normally do.”

He said some of the things he had missed out on included going to football matches with his father.

Grimshaw said the lift had broken down previously but not for this length of time, and criticised the way the repair had been managed.

“For it to have been out of action for so long is a disgrace,” he said. “I have had to cancel several hospital appointments during this time.

“It just feels like disabled people in general, when it comes to these sorts of situations, they are not really listened to. I just feel like the council don’t really care. It’s not good enough.”

Grimshaw said he was calling on Camden Council for compensation.

“The lift might get fixed in a few days, but the council need to realise the kind of emotional distress, challenges and difficulties this has caused,” he said.

“I think we deserve some sort of recompense for the time we have been stuck in our flats.”

Joshua Reeves, disability rights advocate, said he had issued a formal legal notice to Camden Council on Monday regarding the situation.

Reeves said the situation at Wrotham Road was “a critical failure of both safety and disability rights”, adding: “George is under house arrest without being under arrest. This is just so unfair.”

A spokesperson for Camden Council said that each time they had attempted to repair the lift, they had found “further damage”.

“We apologise to residents that due to the complexity of the repair, this has taken so long,” they said.

“Although we repaired the leak and got the replacement parts we needed, each time we’ve attempted the repair, we’ve found further damage within the lift shaft caused by the water and continued electrical issues,” a Camden spokesperson said.

There have been lift problems everywhere in London, not just here. Over in Hackney, East London, residents have said they are being held hostage because there have been dangerous lift failures in council blocks, and residents have hit out at Hackney Council over continuous lift failures on their housing estates.

People are stuck in broken-down lifts for 90 minutes before the fire brigade comes to release them. It’s a persistent problem, along with other problems. People make complaints, but it just doesn’t get them anywhere because councils are not taking accountability, but it is their duty of care to their tenants to make sure they are safe.

Councils are warned over and over again that the lifts are failing, and for increasingly longer and longer periods, and are in danger of failing completely, but each time they get told that an engineer has been out and either found it to be working, or it has been made safe when it clearly isn’t safe.

Despite gathering proof and uploading photos and videos, residents continue to receive the same response.

Hackney Council residents have reported being trapped in their lifts due to systematic failures, and an entrapment order has been raised with Apex lifts to address the problem, but still, Hackney Council have been warned repeatedly of the dangerous lift failures.

Now, social tenants are too afraid to speak up about the problems out of fear of losing their tenancy, but Hackney Council are now in complete breach of its contractual and legal obligations, and they need to find a permanent solution.

A lot of these flats have two lifts, so when one is not working, the other one is, hopefully. However, a lot of these flats only have one working lift, and when that goes out of service, the residents have to use the stairs, but for those that are disabled or elderly, that is not possible, and they are trapped in their flats, and more often than not, inside the lift until the Fire Brigade come to get them out. This also means that it puts a lot of strain on the second lift due to these circumstances.

Numerous disabled people in wheelchairs who live in flats are totally reliant on the lift to get out of the building, but more often than not, the lift is less than reliable, and many residents are being trapped in their flats, not days, but months, without being able to get out – this is called entrapment, and more alarming are the days when people do go out and return to discover an out of order lift. In these events, people who are disabled or elderly find themselves stuck outside in the cold.

It impacts every day of their lives because they have no idea if the lift will be working when they go out, or if it will still be working when they come back, so there is this constant anxiety that they might be trapped.

Lifts break down all the time, at any time of the day, and if someone is out when it breaks down the council are obliged to send an engineer out to repair it, typically in a 2 hour to 24 hour timeframe, but if a disabled person or elderly person is out at the time, how are they supposed to get back into their home? And even when the engineers do arrive, they might not have the right parts to repair the lift, which means that the person is not able to get back into the flat for weeks or months, and if they are in a wheelchair, what are they supposed to do, fly up the stairs on their magic carpet?

The average age of a lead tenant in the social housing sector is 53, which is 12 years older than the average privately renting tenant. Social housing also has the largest proportion of tenants with long-term illness or disability of any housing sector at 56 per cent, and more than half have mobility problems.

The problem is that, particularly in larger cities, there’s a lot of social housing in blocks of flats, and tenants may have been living there for an extremely long time, but as they have got older, their needs have changed, and living in a flat, especially high-rise flats, is completely inadequate for their requirements.

This indicates that, particularly in a single lift block where lift maintenance appears to have been neglected, a malfunctioning lift turns from a minor annoyance to a serious welfare concern.

Abusing The System

A legal adviser was secretly filmed telling an undercover reporter posing as a migrant to pretend to be gay so he could claim asylum in Britain. 

An investigation uncovered a shady network of asylum experts charging up to £7,000 to coach migrants whose visas are running out on how to pose as gay.

They are supplying clients with cover stories and telling them how to fabricate evidence, including supporting letters, photos from LGBT nightclubs and medical reports.

The migrants then file for asylum because they would face lethal persecution if they returned to Bangladesh or Pakistan, where homosexuality is prohibited.

Overall asylum claims topped 100,000 in 2025, of which 35 per cent were made by people whose student, work or tourist visas had expired – far outstripping small boat arrivals.

According to an inquiry, legal advisors are routinely targeting the system in an effort to charge fees for assisting illegal migrants in remaining in the nation.

Undercover BBC News reporters posed as students facing visa expiry and approached several legal advisors.

At Law & Justice Solicitors in East London, paralegal Mazedul Hasan Shakil passed a reporter’s details to Tanisa Khan, an adviser to Worcester LGBT, which describes itself as a support group for gay and lesbian asylum seekers.

Ms Khan was secretly filmed telling the journalist he needed to ‘claim to be an LGBT person’. When he said ‘but I’m not’, she replied by saying, ‘that’s it, you’re not’. 

She offered a £2,500 package including club photos, tickets, letters claiming sexual relationships and an endorsement from Worcester LGBT.

The adviser bragged of her success rate and suggested the ‘client’s’ imaginary wife could also apply for asylum by claiming to be a lesbian.

At a Worcester LGBT event in Beckton, east London, attended by more than 175 men from across the UK, several people openly confessed to undercover reporters that practically none were gay.

One said: ‘Nobody is gay here. Not even 0.01% are gay.’

The group’s website claims it supports only genuine LGBT asylum seekers and is formally recognised by the Home Office.

At Connaught Law in London, senior adviser Aqeel Abbasi quoted £7,000 for the service and assured the reporter the risk of refusal was ‘very low’. 

He told the reporter to have his photo taken in gay clubs and find someone to pose as a fake male partner. 

Ana Gonzalez, an immigration lawyer with 30 years’ experience, said the likes of Ms Khan were ‘clearly breaking the law’.

It seems that human rights lawyers are the worst, giving perpetrators illegal ideas and raking in millions for legal aid. Starmer himself is a multi-millionaire, and yet nothing will happen to these lawyers, and our government knows what goes on, and so does the average person on the streets. We need to come down extremely hard on those providing this fraudulent service.

Of course, all of this could be stopped – Labour, I’m looking at you! Because this is the oldest trick in the book, and no one is ever questioned by the Home Office.

These HR lawyers and the like are systematically destroying this country because their greed blinkers the damage they are doing, and it’s quite frankly appalling, but they are lucky because they don’t have to live with the consequences, unlike the rest of us. We are not only paying for it, but we are also having to put up with it.

Supposedly, the Home Office lie through their teeth all the time because if they were doing their jobs properly, then we wouldn’t have all these corrupt lawyers, and they wouldn’t be doing such amazing business.

The Life And Times Of Autism

A Dutch boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder, anxiety, mood disorders, depression, and suicidal ideation was euthanised in 2023 because he requested it.

He had been diagnosed 4.5 years earlier and he described his life as ‘joyless’, marked by ‘loneliness’, ‘overstimulation’, ’emotional struggles’ and being mostly ‘homebound.’

Doctors did, however, demonstrate his competence, and the matter was approved by the Regional Euthanasia Review Committee. They detailed their report in 2024, but it has since fueled debate on psychiatric euthanasia for young people.

However, what comes to mind is this: how did it get this bad? Where was the help?

The issue was that his everyday struggles regrettably overwhelmed him, and his thoughts prevented him from finding serenity while he was still living.

Non-neurotypical people need to be educated about autism because they need to understand them.

The majority of people with autism cannot flirt because it’s subtle. It would be like forcing a blind person to see or a deaf person to hear.

They don’t think the same way as we do in the usual way. You need to literally be honest and direct with them. And don’t bother playing mental games with them because you will always lose. Just say things as they are because Autism and vagueness do not mix well; they hate it. If you need them to do a task, explain it in detail, and don’t get angry because they didn’t do something exactly how you wanted them to do it, because if you were being too vague about it, it’s not their fault, it’s yours.

The body language of an Autistic person is often mistaken for that of a psychopath or a creep, but what you may consider creepy behaviour is not at all creepy to them because they don’t think the same way as we do.

They don’t have a lack of empathy; they just have trouble expressing it, and they don’t want to pretend that they are feeling emotion when they’re not. Just because they’re not bursting into tears over something doesn’t mean they’re not upset, and just because they’re not making eye contact doesn’t mean they’re not interested.

Eye contact makes them feel very uncomfortable, especially for long periods of time. Just learn to accept that they won’t make eye contact with you most of the time.

If you wonder why people on the Autistic Spectrum tend to be introverted, it’s because they suffer from sensory overloads. This is why going outside can be a massive challenge for them, and a number of them wear headphones to drown out the background noise so that they can cope a little better. It doesn’t cost any money to understand them, just some of your time.

An Autistic person deciding to euthanise themselves is a very big thing, and unless you have this condition, you have no idea what they are suffering, but of course, mental illness is not treated on an equal footing.

This person felt that he was already dead, so he believed that euthanising himself would be the better option because there was no more consciousness left to regret, and it was a win-win situation regardless of anyone’s viewpoint.

There should have been people to help him, but even so, it would have been a very hard road, even if he’d had the help and medications. There has to be motivation, so I can understand his choice, and I’m grateful that he was allowed to make that choice.

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