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[quote=Anonymous]Talk to the parents calmly and factually: "Today your son charged and hit my son. This is not the first time. Could you get him to stop doing that please? My son is becoming afraid of playing with your son, and I would hate to curtail future playdates."

How do you and your son react when this happens?

FYI, autistic children are not particularly violent, and if this is the only symptom you have observed, you're going to be thrashed by all the parents on this forum for jumping to discriminatory conclusions!
Some forms of ADHD can have a violent component. It could also be Oppositional Defiant Disorder. This child could have a host of issues you don't know about and that his parents are coming to grips with and working through. Or he could be going through a phase that needs to be checked.

I strongly recommend that you do not tell the other parents that their child may be autistic!!! If they have no clue, they might be extremely offended.

What you can do, after doing your research on several childhood disorders, is to describe casually to his parents typical behaviors in this child that match major criteria of the syndrome you think he has. Stop short at mentioning the disorder.
This is the way teachers and therapists use to try to hint to parents that their children might have a specific disorder, since they are prohibited from coming out and saying it.
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