What are you trying to accomplish with this petition? There's no way you are going to stop mockery on mental health issues this way. The only way to stop it is to not be disturbed by it. I'm sure people are not attacking autistic or depressed patients, they are just using the term as a JOKE , the same way you call your friends stupid or dumb! If you still can't live with it, avoid the messages altogether.

This is a sensitive topic not to be made fun of so this needs to end!!!! Being 16 or 17 I think we all are mature enough to understand this.

wow you have clearly misunderstood the context. like anonymous said Dhruv does not mean to insult people with autism or other mental disorder but to insult the person he intends to and that too as a joke so please get real and have some sense humor and learn to treat jokes as jokes. Have the maturity to understand the situation and get on with it. And you are doing the IB diploma instead of spending your time on your subjects and their IAs you decide to start a petition based on a whatsapp group where you clearly know everything is nothing but a mere joke, this just show how well informed and clever you lol.

Also if the person "mocking autism" happened to be on the autism spectrum, we would be having a totally different conversation, we would be laughing at the joke they made instead of being offended and angry. This is because we believe you can't talk about it unless you ARE it. I have seen black people making fun of slavery and even making white people laughing. But if the joke was made by a white person and even if a few black people laughed, he would ber ecieving death threats, and forced to quit his job and would have his life ruined by a few words that people got offended for.

As being black is also used as an insult, you might as well be asking yourself "why is being black an insult?" The answer is "it's not insulting, it's the fact that using it as an insult is what's meant to get someone's goat." They know that's the part that upsets you, which is why they do it. I'm sure not one person in the school hates autistic people or people with mental illnesses. In all honesty if this is the general trend with the world that more and more people will start to get offended for others and complain about everything, we can say goodbye to comedy as a whole.

I agree that mental health is a serious issue that must not be dealt with lightly, but to be honest, I don’t think what this petition fights for is valid with its context. Were you desperate to find a cause or something? Do you really think that Dhruv means all his jokes on that group? Do you think Sarthak really hates autistic or depressed people? It’s 2018 and everyone is sensitive, that’s what is wrong with this world. Put a black boy to advertise a jacket with a joke written on it and his mom is getting death threats. Whoever created this group, if you’re main focus when creating this petition was the jokes in the idek group, I have only one thing to say: Learn to take a joke. Put an autistic person in front of dhruv and he will obviously care for him/her. Put a depressed child in front of Sarthak and he will make sure he’s there for him/her. The issue addressed in this petition is invalid. Majority of the people on this planet already treat mental issues with nothing but respect. However, it is people like you that mislead this world by targeting people for things they obviously don’t mean.

Says the guy who uses it almost daily as an insult

Good thing that we are taking this more seriously