Harassment

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But even in my school they would keep cameras in the buses for things like that. Surely he could haver asked the principle to check them.

no cameras on the bus....***sigh***

Ster raises a valid point - aspies sometimes interpret things wrong.

As to the original question, I try to toughen the kids up and present them with ways to handle such situations, when possible. If it is a matter of adults treating them poorly, I quickly let the adult know how I feel about them mistreating a child with a social disability. With friend misunderstandings, I try to help my daughter understand that sometimes people can be mean (she struggles to understand why) and that it is not necessarily a reflection on her. I tell her that we won't always understand things in this world, especially people, and sometimes even grown-ups get their feelings hurt. In a situation where she was bullied by a friend on a playdate, I told her that if she liked the friend, she needed to find out her true intentions (was she mean on purpose?) and decide from there whether she wanted to remain friends. At that point it is a matter of forgiveness and letting the friend know that if she continued being mean she wouldn't want to play anymore, simple. It seems to have worked.

I think every child is different though, so what works for one may not work for another.