Excuses, excuses... and possibly an example of bitchery

[Lace Neil Singer]

The bitchery is possibly on my side... the excuses from the woman I encountered today. I was at the supermarket cuz I had to buy a loaf of bread. I was slightly ticked off due to having to wait out the time spent for my motorbike to be serviced, more so when while waiting in line, this little girl of around 10 years old kept grabbing my bread off the conveyor belt and dumping it with her mother's items.

After rescuing my bread for the third time, I snapped. I turned to the girl's mum and said, "Can't you stop your kid doing that?" She replied in a nasty tone of voice, "My daughter's autistic!" "So am I," I replied, "But unlike her, I have decent parents who can teach me how to behave in public." Complete silence, and she grabbed her daughter's hand and moved about 3 steps back.

[Jewels]

I don't think you were bitchy. You refused to let the woman pass the blame on her daughters behavior to her illness.

[spoiled_princess]

I always leave the shopping cart behind me while unloading. That way, I don't feel rushed to hurry up and get outta the way. And it makes the person behind me not able to get into my personal space, or watch while I'm entering my PIN when I swipe my debit card. I can't stand it when someone behind me is right on top of me..it's so annoying. I never get that close to the person in front of me. It's rude.

[Seshat]

It was a bitchy way of saying it, but it was something she needed to hear and it's entirely possible she wasn't going to process it if it was said more gently.

[BlaqueKatt]

my severely autistic son(does not even speak at all)-learned not to touch things that don't belong to him at age two-why because I taught him not to. He would point to what he wanted, sign "please"(he uses sign language), and if mom said no he'd pout, but wouldn't "ask" again.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

my severely autistic son(does not even speak at all)-learned not to touch things that don't belong to him at age two-why because I taught him not to. He would point to what he wanted, sign "please"(he uses sign language), and if mom said no he'd pout, but wouldn't "ask" again.

I remember seeing it on TV, these parents at a grocery store and an autistic boy around 7 or 8 stopped dead in his track and shoved a piece of cheese in his mouth. In defense of the parents, they did turn around and tried their best to take the piece out of the boy's mouth saying "no, no no!"

Both you Katt and these parents are doing their best.

That woman in the OP seems to have given up too early and decided autism=the kid can do whatever they want now. They're autistic, not stupid. You can still teach them not to touch what's not theirs.

[chainedbarista]

blaquekatt has a good kid; the mom of your offender needs to utilize a rare (bordering on extinct) concept-parental control.

it wasn't bitchy; if mom was paying attention, it would have ended at round two.

[wagegoth]

My older son and I are both ASD (autistic spectrum disorder). The only thing that is guaranteed to help an ASD child is the parents' time and attention. Unfortunately, many parents of ASD kids don't want to spend the time or make the effort. They want someone else to "fix" the child. Which has led to many horrible things, including the deaths of children receiving bizarre, unsafe treatments or untrained care in care facilities, as well as deliberate murder by parents.

That mother needed to make a real effort to help her child. The child needs the help, or she will have a very hard future.

[Lace Neil Singer]

That's pretty much what I thought; wasn't the girl I was mad at but the mother. Poor little girl with that woman as her mother.