Now we (as a society) have accepted the reality of coercive control in intimate (family) relations should we recognise that in reality such control is more widespread & needs to be (legally) confronted?
When the law was first proposed a wider scope was intended but narrowed by Theresa May's Govt. to get it passed, so perhaps now we have seen its identified a really clear problem, there should be a campaign to widen its scope?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/uk-law-gap-police-investigate-coercive-control

England and Wales pioneered the criminalisation of coercive control, but it doesn’t apply outside of intimate or family relationships. Why stop there, asks deputy head of Guardian Opinion Barbara Speed
The subject of this doco sounds like the stereotype of an autistic man. Socially clueless, hyper sensitive to rejection, having zero empathy, & needing to control people & environments around him in order to be safe.
As an autistic person I can resonate (ie feel empathy) with most of this - except the no empathy bit. I know about being socially clueless. And how hyper sensitivity, to sensory input & to rejection, can make us feel that controlling our environments & resisting change is the only way to feel safe.
My neurodivergent peers understand this.
Among the autistic folx I know, most have heaps of empathy, & resonate intensely with the feelings of others. We meet - online or in person, as friends or as strangers - to communicate intensely with each other, listening deeply & offering recognition & care.
Most - not all - of my friends were raised as women.
Is there something here about how boys are raised? Boys are encouraged to feel they are entitled to shape the world & people around them to accommodate their needs, in ways women - except perhaps the most wealthy & privileged - are not. We see dominating behaviours valorised as ‘alpha’ & those who perform them accorded far more respect than they deserve.
Imagine if we all learned, as children, that we are not separate from each other - or from other living beings - & that one person’s suffering affects us all. Imagine if practices of care & compassion were valued more highly than those of domination. Imagine if our role models behaved in ways that respect all life.
I don’t believe autistic people have no empathy. I think we are misfits who feel unsafe. We struggle to make sense of the world around us, do our best to figure out what the rules are, then try to follow them in order to escape being targeted as ‘other’.
For too many boys and men, the rules they infer are toxic.
People are not our enemy.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #RSD #CoerciveControl #Incel #misogyny
Context Warning:
Abuse, Murder, Stalking
https://www.change.org/p/royal-commission-into-the-killing-of-australian-women-and-girls/u/34380769?
Femicide Watch Australia
https://australianfemicidewatch.org/
#coerciveControl #domesticViolence #FamilyViolence #Femicide

In Queensland, we have a government more worried about cracking down on a slogan than cracking down on domestic violence perpetrators. And we have a police force that recently decided to dump its specialist domestic violence unit because domestic violence (aka men's violence against women) is not 'core policing business'.And this morning we have a woman and her baby daughter murdered and their …
Please help me escape daily #abuse from a dark triad #Narcissist (psychiatrist diagnosed). I’m #Disabled with severe #ChronicIllness & have endured #CoerciveControl #Neglect #Isolation for 20 years.
I’m at $6281/$10000 to start life again from scratch. Dr fears I will die here if I don’t escape now.
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https://chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape
Christopher Trybus Denies Manslaughter Charges Over Wife’s Death Amid Allegations of Coercive Control
📰 Original title: Man 'caused wife's death by controlling her', jury told
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