Effing jerks. My son with autism had a tantrum in McDonald’s one day and kicked his dad to the point of injury (dad had a severely bruised hand for weeks). Some idiot asked an employee to call the cops because of child abuse. The employee had the guts to come see what was going on and rightly chose not to get the police involved.
It is very difficult to take kids with autism into public. Please think twice when you see kids with issues. My son was so smart he would even yell “this is not my mom!” when he was tantruming in a store, and I was dragging his butt out, knowing that was what he SHOULD yell if he were being kidnapped.
And one night the neighbors in the apartment below came up in their pajamas and demanded to see the baby that I wasn’t torturing him. I was only trying to put his pajamas on him, which he did not want.
Life with a kid with autism is 300% harder than life with a kid without autism. I agree that the public needs to consider this possibility when they see a conflict with a child, or a child with weird clothes or hair.
My quote “normal” twin had a meltdown when she was 6. Her special needs sister wasn’t feeling well and we had to leave a skating party early.
She was seaming and yelling and throwing things in the car.
I pulled into a McDonald’s Parking lot and told her to get out of the car.
I wouldn’t let her back in while she was screaming.
A guy saw this and starting yelling that he was going to call the cops for child abuse for me.
Then he noticed my other daughter in the car.
The one that was screaming shut up quickly and hot in the car when he started coming over.
She never behaved poorly in public again. She’s 21 and remembers it. She’ll admit that she was terrible.