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Parents Are Outraged by Note Telling Mom of a Kid With a Disability to 'Keep Son Away' From Friend

If the parents are concerned that an autistic child has a greater influence over their son than they do, that says a lot about them.

So does the bit about cartoons that are "too young".

Worry about hand flapping if your son starts hand flapping. Why the hell would he?

Control freak parents.

Dear friend's mom, your son's greatest danger is being raised by an idiot like you.

I was banned from many peoples' houses because I was seen as being "ret*d" and having "something wrong with me."

It's actually worse when you read the full letter on the link. They basically want the parents to enforce a restraining order on their own son.

As for handflapping, I remember being told once it made the police uneasy. I’m assuming handflapping is automatic though. When I talk sometimes I wave my arms around and that’s automatic. I think it’s more like what Italian people do when they’re talking, as an example. I don’t really hand flap.

... How dare they diss Tom & Jerry?!?!

I was a bit skeptical because when I was a kid, I was one of those kids who copied everyone and I was copying kids in my special ed class. I could see my own mother doing something like this if we had a kid in our neighborhood who didn't act normal. It would be easy to judge a parent for their decision to not have an autistic child to be with their child. But this doesn't seem to be the case here with the letter. It looks like the mom is one of those moms who forces their kids to grow up and make them quit playing with their toys at a certain age and make them stop watching a TV show because "it's too young for them." I knew kids like this in my school and in 5th grade, it was sad seeing kids in my class not seeing themselves as children. Why would they if they are forced to quit playing with trucks or dolls?

Even my ex boyfriend was one of these people but yet he would watch shows made for teens.

Autism is not contagious.

Your son is not likely to become a indoctrinated into Autism cult by watching Julia the Autistic Muppet on Sesame Street.

If your son likes his friends cartoons it is not to old for him. Maybe the Autistic friend would like the "too old for him" cartoon.

Yeah the kid might copy him for a bit but as I wrote above most likely the kid will grow out of it.

Helicopter parenting strikes again. What is frightening to me is that the first generation of kids widely raised by hovering parents are becoming parents themselves and think their kid will grow up to be a failure if he or she misses a marker set by the psychology profession.

If only autism was contagious...I'd be going around coughing this s**t over every asshat I'd ever met, just so they could get some perspective.

My sister got banned from this one kid's house just because our family was not Christian and I think they thought we we were weird too. My sister and this other kid had another friend named Alan that lived nearby. My sister couldn't play with Alan if the other kid was over there because he wasn't allowed to play with my sister.

It is sad that there are parents like that out there. I wish parents would quit being so over protective and obsessed with social status.

Welcome to the real world

There's a reason Mother's groups are competitive where "mommies" judge other people's kid's suitability to be friends

You don't have to have to have a child with hand flapping or severe disability - I know for a fact that mothers in my daughter's mainstream school instruct their kids to avoid my daughter in class on the basis of her (perceived) odd behavior. The proof of the pudding is she has never been invited to one child's birthday party in the 7 years of primary school.

But wait! there's more - parents of three different girls with Aspergers in my daughter's class over her 7 years held birthday parties for their daughters where NT kids were invited but even they too chose to not invite my daughter. I even know and talk to these parents at school!!

Parents are always concerned about their own kids and obviously don't want them being ostracized for fraternizing with the "outcastes". it's a tough competitive world and there really isn't anything you can do about social ostracism based on disability. You can't force friendship...

Wait, there's an autism cult? Kewl.