zen_mistress wrote:
I kind of wonder myself if the boy should have been brought to the restaurant though. It didnt sound like it was much fun for him, he probably saw it as a pointless disruption of his usual routine, and it possibly weirded him out to be eating at a different time, different food, different table, not to mention noises and lighting that might not have been something he could deal with.
He has probably handled outigs like this before and don well, so the family thought it would be OK and were wrong. It is like that with small (NT) children as well. You take them out all the time and get great results, then one night the kid goes berserk and everyone else in the place is like
. It just isn't their day.
Who knows why the family was there. You cant have everyone shut in because of an autistic family member. Sometimes you have to get out and enjoy- what if it was someone's birthday? I bet there was a good reason . No one wants to be out at dinner and have their family member melt down in public.