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Kengo was convinced that if he studied according to his own study plan, his grades would improve. That is why he even threatened them with a knife to get them to do it.

However, there is no way that studying while being stabbed with a knife is effective. Why can’t they think of something so obvious?

During our interviews, we often heard from medical professionals that it has something to do with the developmental characteristics of the parents. Pediatricians, apart from this case, talk about cases in which developmental disabilities lead to educational abuse. The following is a quote from my book.

The following is a quote from my book: “There are many forms of developmental disabilities, so it is difficult to make a blanket statement, but in general, I feel that autistic/closing traits are more likely to be associated with educational abuse. People with autism tend to create their own molds and try to fit many things into them. When that mold becomes, “This is the way a child’s education should be,” they try to fit the child into it at all costs. That can lead to educational abuse.”

One of the most obvious characteristics of ASD is that it sets its own rules and repeats them incessantly. For example, he will walk only on the white line drawn on the road on his way to school, and if he steps off the line, he will go back to the beginning and start walking again, or he will decide the position of an object in his room to the millimeter and rush to correct it if it is even slightly out of place.

Stabbed his son with a kitchen knife: ……

They are extraordinarily attached to the rules they set for themselves, and if they are not followed, they become angry or panic.

For some people, this obsession is directed toward educating their children, imposing their own rules on everything from study time to methods. They set detailed schedules and procedures and demand that children follow them to the last detail. When these rules are broken, they panic and sometimes resort to violence.

To avoid any misunderstanding, the ASD trait does not necessarily lead to educational abuse. As I describe in detail in this book, it is up to each person to decide what they care about, and it does not absolutely lead to violence when it is oriented toward education. It is just that when we shine a light on the field of educational abuse, there are unfortunate cases where this is the case.

Returning to the case, Kengo was a case in which ASD characteristics turned in a bad way to educational abuse of children. In the summer of the year when Shunta was in the sixth grade of elementary school, Kengo, probably in a hurry to prepare for the upcoming entrance examinations, exploded in anger while teaching Shunta his studies. In a state of self-doubt, he stabbed Shunta with a kitchen knife with a blade of 18.5 cm in length, killing him.

Later in the trial, the lawyer argued that a factor in the case was his involvement with ASD, as mentioned above. The evaluation revealed that Kengo had ASD, and that he was obsessed with the study method he had decided on, and had tried to trap Shunta into it by threatening him with a knife, but when he could not get his way, he exploded with emotion and stabbed him.

The case ended in ’20 when the court confirmed “13 years in prison”. It is now positioned as one of the worst cases of ASD linked to and caused by educational abuse.

Even if it did not lead to such an important case, I have examined in detail in this book the cases in which parents’ developmental traits were oriented toward their children in their studies, resulting in tragedy. In Part 2, I will look at some of these incidents in the context of ordinary families.

Part 2: Report on the despair of children whose parents’ lack of understanding leads them to take heated entrance examinations.