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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child, with SN or not, is spitting at a playground (at all, really, let alone at/towards other kids or adults), or pushing in front of people when it's clearly not his turn, then [b]he simply is not ready to be playing in a public area[/b].

Keep going with whatever therapy you're doing, but you're not yet at the point where your child can maintain a basic level of consideration for other people and so he just isn't ready for a playground. I'm sorry.

Maybe you'll get there with your son. Maybe you won't. I don't know. But I do know that everyone else should not need to have your child inflicted on them when they dare to venture out to the local park to play.

And yes, your child is hurting people. Because when you spit on people, you can make them sick. It's considered legal assault for a reason. Not to mention that it's totally disgusting and when your kid is spitting, and there's an adult right there who isn't punishing the kid, and you don't even offer an explanation because "you don't need to", then you're making other parents' jobs way harder when they are trying to keep their children behaving in a socially acceptable way. It's hard for kids to understand why they get punished for something and other kids do not. And pushing in when other kids are playing nicely, ESPECIALLY when there are "babies" around (who may or may not be playing on equipment that was designed for their age group) can also be incredibly dangerous and lead to serious injury.

It sounds like you need a break, and you should do that. But don't whinge that everyone should just put up with your kid and not say anything about it. Right now, you're giving parents of kids with autism a bad name.[/quote]

You don't get to make that call. SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS BELONG IN PUBLIC SPACES even if it makes you uncomfortable. [/quote]

This.  Thank you.  (Leaving aside the fact that OP never said her kid is literally spitting at other kids - he's blowing raspberries.) [/quote]

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