Il ragazzo autistico “voleva mostrare i treni a mamma” prima che lei lo soffocasse, ha detto la corte
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-10-14/autistic-boy-wanted-to-show-mum-trains-before-she-smothered-him-court-told
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Il ragazzo autistico “voleva mostrare i treni a mamma” prima che lei lo soffocasse, ha detto la corte
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-10-14/autistic-boy-wanted-to-show-mum-trains-before-she-smothered-him-court-told
di insomnimax_99
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Oh Jesus Christ, it’s two sentences and I’m sobbing!!!
>”He does not fit in the world and where he doesn’t fit I don’t either.”
Speaking as an autistic adult who grew up different from all my “peers”, this news story pains me to read, but I can also see where the mother was coming from.
A tragic event, and I feel so desperate sorry for the whole family.
FFS, I don’t see what need there is to report on this or post across social media. What enjoyment or insight do ppl get knowing shit like this has happened? It doesn’t prevent anything, doesn’t do anything but depress. I never get the fascination ppl have with reading or sharing this stuff. Literally ruined my morning seeing this.
That poor child and that poor mother. Support for mother’s in this country is appalling. She should have been cared for after her first threat on her own life. She didn’t fail as a mother, we failed as a society.
This whole story seems like a real distillation about how much this country has gone to shit. Someone who has sought help and just got anti depressants.
“He [Lincoln] does not fit in the world and where he doesn’t fit I don’t either.”
He had earlier told the jury it appeared “the challenges of caring for an autistic child had caused the defendant to become depressed and she chose to murder her child”.
That was a sad read.
She was diagnosed with depression, clearly stressed & heard some voices that told her she needed to kill her child & herself. Though, a psychiatrist did not feel her symptoms met the threshold for psychosis. The voices were most likely intrusive but her own.
She’s claiming manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility. I’m not sure how I feel about this, without more information on the case.
What struck me as strange was how she labelled her child as a burden, effectively assigning blame for her own misery onto him. This, to me, feels egocentric & perhaps even slightly opportunistic because it serves as a strategy to absolve her from the responsibility of introspection & managing her own illness.
I would query whether she is projecting an image onto him, that he is a burden when, in fact, that’s a reflection of how she herself feels.
The reality of the situation is she killed her child, and we do not know what life he could have had.
Mother trying to claim she heard voices telling her to unalive her son. Yeah, sure.
The picture and the the fact the mother killed him was bad enough, my dude. There was no need for me to see the rest of that headline. Goddamnit.
Reading this story made me cry. Utterly, utterly tragic.
I have two neurodiverse little boys, who are incredibly loving. The holding her hand to watch trains, or getting in for a cuddle… Those lines really resonated with me. Why did no one help her? Help her partner, help that little boy? I think we all know the answer sadly. Services for MH, services for neurodiversity have been massively underfunded for decades. They have been utterly broken since COVID. The ability to intervene early has gone, and it is leading to absolute heartbreak and tragedy. This could have been prevented.