How do you deal with this?

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Hi:
I wanted to know how many of you have had friends in your life who also had aspergers and mild autism and lived with their parents who appear to coddle them and pretend they are like children and live in a plastic bubble that isn't real.

All the while you are holding onto a career, living independently and going to college and holding other privileges next to being friends with these kids and their parents.

However, you learn that these parents often go behind your back and talk about you and how you shouldn't do this or that because you're autistic?

How do you handle people like that?

I'd stop having anything to do with them.

They are toxic people (e.g., "Back-Stabbers"), who may not realize that ASDs manifest differently in different people, and who also may not realize that they could be limiting their child's growth and blocking his potential with all of their "coddling".

I agree concerning the toxicity. The parents need more help than the kid. Just my thought, that's all.