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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To everyone saying "they meant it kindly" or "they were only trying to help", stop.

Impact matters more than intent.

Unsolicited advice is criticism.[/quote]

DP.  I said a ways upthread that, yes, this "unsolicited chastisement of someone else's kid" is helpful, for many kids.  Often times, the kid will knock it off, when a stranger talks to them.  It has worked a couple times with my ASD kid, too.  [b]Not when they are rolling around on the floor screaming (not really clear what OP's DC's meltdown looked like but it doesn't seem to have been at that level)[/b] but when they were rigid, stuck, maybe getting-to-meltdown.

All these defensive posts saying that people should never ever talk to a child are strange and living in s a strange  world.  [/quote]

OP has already described the meltdown a number of times and it definitely meets the threshold for visibly obvious kid is far beyond logic.  I do not know why people are so unwilling to take them at their word and keep minimizing the meltdown.[/quote]

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