In life, a bully is full of hate and hatred. That is their primary, instinctive emotion. However, bullying is just one facet of their often disturbing and dysfunctional behaviour, and in many cases very disturbed personalities. They are likely to run into trouble with the authorities and the law when they leave school. A bully, or a serial bully, usually has a major attitude problem with how they speak to and relate to most other individuals. Most of all, a bully needs power, which to them is what oxygen is to human beings. They can't function without power and control, as life without those two is so empty and meaningless.
Those with AS or Autism or general special needs are extremely vulnerable to bullying in any location or setting. Even worse, a bully instinctively detects this, as they always know who makes a suitable victim and who doesn't.
An individual with AS is placed at an immediate disadvantage when it comes to dealing with bullies or bullying in schools, particularly when they receive no support or understanding. They often don't have many or, in some cases, even any friends. In any case, they find it hard to make friends or to distinguish between genuine and false friends. With AS being an invisible condition, and due to the fact that many with it can appear to be unlikeable, aloof or weird to ignorant people, it is difficult to make many feel sympathetic to them, as it can be wrongly believed that the person with AS is going out of their way to be contrary or difficult.
If a case of bullying is reported, those with AS often have communication and interactional difficulties, which can make the Headmaster or person in charge in some schools not take their claims seriously or dismiss them altogether as "Tittle-Tattle.
If four or five different bullies get onto a person with AS, the school may think "Well yes, one or two people getting onto him fair enough, but four or five? There's something wrong if there is that many. They must have asked for it". Something wrong? There's something wrong with that mode of thinking, not with the person with AS who is being bullied, as bullies will behave in this fashion regardless where they are or what location they are placed in. Schools should look at the behaviour and conduct of such people when they aren't bullying, and compare it to the behaviour and conduct of someone with AS in general.
If you punch one bully or retaliate, then their friends will often get you. That is their mentality. They often wait for the victim outside school as well at home time so they aren't likely to be caught or so the school can turn around and say that it isn't their responsibility as it hasn't happened on school grounds.
Another tactic is to isolate the victim away from their friends, or make their friends think "Well if I keeping hanging about with this person, they will get me next, I better distance myself from them".
