Asperger syndrome is a personality disorder at the mild end of the autistic spectrum.

And those who are affected by this disorder are by nature usually quiet and placid people who are naive, and vulnerable loners etc, but unfotunately are perfect targets for bullies and their accomplices.

Playground bullying is very nasty but teachers have now been trained to spot these immature imbeciles and stop the problem from escalating.

Unfortunately, some playground bullies turn into adults and learn to be more deceitful, crafty and deviant.

These nasty people attain positions of power and influence and can achieve professional status and will use this power to manipulate other immature people to victimise damage and abuse anyone who dares to challenge them, and will resort to using malicious gossip, invalidation, scapegoating, intimidation or any other bullying tactic to make the target submit to their twisted personality, and then hide behind false respectability.

They appear to be quite normal people but the reality is that they are just professional adult bullies who do not deserve any respect whatsoever.

Norman Preston Austistic Society, Carrington Avenue, Blackburn.