Gregg Wallace’s latest claim.

Being a child in the 1950's choice wasn't an option. Nobody forced me to walk on cracks, I certainly got into trouble re hats and gloves.

lafergar

Mollygo

I don't know, I don't want to offend but some of this stuff is surely just likes and dislikes.
I hate hats and gloves, I don't walk on cracks on pavements, my spelling is creative. But I improvise and find ways round things.

Lafergar
That’s interesting. Were you made to wear hats and gloves, or obliged to walk on cracks in the pavement?
Does that mean you overcame your dislike or did you carry on regardless with what made you happy?

DGS has ASC. Improvising and find ways round things are part of life that everyone has to do.
Others, like DGS just have conditions that make doing that more difficult, but he’s worked hard at managing issues, as I put in my post.

Gingster asked, ^Is this a ‘thing’ with autism or just a spoilt child getting his own way?

My answer was to her. Not knowing the child I wouldn’t know whether he has ASC or not, or what strategies the parents are using to encourage him to make choices like wearing pants.

Personally I hope that Greg Wallace never works again.

Mollygo

I don't know, I don't want to offend but some of this stuff is surely just likes and dislikes.
I hate hats and gloves, I don't walk on cracks on pavements, my spelling is creative. But I improvise and find ways round things.

Iam64

I understand the irritation with Wallace but in reality, many people are on the autistic spectrum and many are dyslexic, I remember being told I was wrong to suggest my seven year old was dyslexic, no her teacher said, she’s end of August birthday, they’re always a bit behind. She was seven, then eleven when this was said to me. She was finally diagnosed as dyslexic when resitting maths and science at 23. She had a 2.1 degree by then and needed better gcse grades to get on the post grad teaching course.
Both her children are dyslexic. It’s no longer seen as the excuse middle class parents make. It’s A Thing

My granddaughter was born in August so very young when she went to school, coupled with that she was two months premature so really should have started the next year. The school blamed her learning difficulties on her being an August baby and, only now when she is about to go to secondary school, has she officially been statemented (not dyslexia though).
This does mean she'll get a lot of help at her new school, but my DS and DIL have spent a fortune on tutoring and help for her over the past few years.

Autism may be an excuse for certain behaviours but not sexual ones in a man who can not only keep a job but can do a full on presenting role on tv which earns a lot of money.
This gives all those on the autistic spectrum a bad name which they have surely worked hard to shrug off.Apologies and a quick retreat would have served Greg better.

My grandson was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and only after several visits to psychiatrists and therapists, and home visits, we were told he’s autistic…But today he is a grown man and has a job in finance and is absolutely aware (without being told) of what he can and can’t do as far as the female population are concerned..So for Greg Wallace a 60 year old man who we can safely say its not his first day on earth to try and blame his behaviour on autism is laughable..

My grandson was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and only after several visits to psychiatrists and therapists, and home visits, we were told he’s autistic…But today he is a grown man and has a job in finance and is absolutely aware (without being told) of what he can and can’t do as far as the female population are concerned..So for Greg Wallace a 60 year old man to try and blame his behaviour on autism is laughable..

no her teacher said, she’s end of August birthday, they’re always a bit behind

That’s me Iam!

Soon it’ll become neurodivergent NOT to be defined as ‘somewhere on the spectrum’. Those people will be the odd ones out.

knspol

Do you think he actually believes these excuses himself ?

Oh, definitely. It’s all somebody else’s fault!

Do you think he actually believes these excuses himself ?

What on earth makes him think that he is even remotely sexy?

He’s belittled the people who genuinely have it!
He needs to wander back home and be QUIET!

Couldn't manage to wear underwear?
But managed to wear a sock on his Wil*y apparently! it has been said. Silly man.

It's strange his autism didn't compel him to expose himself in front of men 😏🤔 what a gurning creep

Gingster there is no one thing that applies to every child with ASC, diagnosed or not.
My DGS had a problem with labels in his clothes, and other things like the smell of food cooking and the sight of strangers eating.
We could deal with the labels, but he had to come to terms with the others if he wanted to come on holiday with us.
When he eventually realised that was the choice, he dealt with it.
It wasn’t an overnight change, but he’s now at uni, and can cook, even pungent dishes like curry. He doesn’t like people noticing him stimming, but there’s not a lot he can do about that.
Not wearing pants or shorts? Sounds sensory, but does he go out or to school without them?

Sparklefizz

Surely any man if he felt uncomfortable wearing underpants would want to keep his trousers zipped??

Like Witzend I have never understood why men want to flash at women or send dick pics. It's not a pretty sight.

As my mother’s cleaning lady once put it many years ago, ‘A man doesn’t look very nice in just his socks.’ 😂

They do it because the thrill is in frightening/upsetting women, they enjoy breaching women's boundaries.

I agree with BlueBelle nasty yuk!

He's a disgusting man , now he's trying every trick he can for excusing what he did..

Surely any man if he felt uncomfortable wearing underpants would want to keep his trousers zipped??

Like Witzend I have never understood why men want to flash at women or send dick pics. It's not a pretty sight.

I'm on the floor laughing here!

His autism....if he genuinely has it or not.... is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for being a creepy, women-hating self-obsessed weirdo!

Not the point, I know, but I’ve often wondered why any man feels the need to get his dick out and flash it at women.
I have asked dh, a normal, red-blooded male, and he can’t understand it, either.

There is a sensory issue with autistic children and clothing . My eighteen year old grandson has never been able to wear jeans. He lives in jogging bottoms.
However that is no excuse for Greg Wallace. I was listening to a phone in radio programme about him while driving on Wednesday so I was not giving it my full attention but it is significant that the ladies who phoned in expressed views such as most of us but the two men who phoned were “compassionate” saying he needed sympathy for the isolation he must now be feeling. Enough said!

My Dd and DGD have just been away to our seaside cottage with her friend and DS. The children are both 9 yrs old. Th boy has autistic traits but hasn’t been diagnosed. He refused to wear pants or shorts while they were there which upset my gd and his mother didn’t insist he wore something because he goes mad and gets so upset.

Is this a ‘thing’ with autism or just a spoilt child getting his own way.