Aggressive behaviour

Many autistic children often hit others or behave in an aggressive manner.
They don’t do that out of vengence usually, neither do they aim to hurt somebody. If that was the case, they would not be autistic! They are just confused about something that happened that moment. These behaviours show that something is bothering them.
It makes no sense to hit them back in order for them to feel what it is like to get hit. It will only create more confusion. We will not make them feel better at all!
They cannot put themselves in someone else’s place, because of their egocentricity (the main symptom of autism), so they are not capable to understand that hitting others hurt.
We have to look for the reasons for their aggresive behaviours. Then we can try to avoid the situations that make them behave like that. We really do have to understand them more!