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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This American preoccupation with wanting to  sexualize the childhood of their children is frankly disgusting. And especially White mothers need to quit creating a sense of sexual entitlement in their future InCel sons. 
Disgusting POS.
And yes, sorry if he is ASD or whatever, but how dare he embarrass this girl by singling her for inappropriate attention.

Show me an uplifting story about how he achieved something in academics or ECs. I don’t want to hear about horny pre-teens and teens. [/quote]

You clearly do not have children on the spectrum. It is extremely difficult and exhausting. [b]The mother was mortified when she found out what her DS had done and later explained to him why it was not right afterwards. She would have talked him out of our it had she been aware before hand. [/b]

Children/ youth on the spectrum usually do not understand social cues and often have to be told in great detail about what is socially appropriate. It is impossible to think of every possible scenario in advance.

I don’t think it is appropriate for you to blame the mother or their skin color. I have black friends with kids on the spectrum and it is a struggle for them as well. Parenting youth on the spectrum is an extremely difficult journey.

It is a big jump from an innocent Valentine card exchange to horny teens. Children from kindergarten through HS give Valentines cards and it is usually a gesture of sweet friendship. [/quote]

The boy's mother shared on social media about how the cheerleaders(?) in the school gave her son a poster and card.  Yes, the girls  may have been wanting to do their one "faux" charitable deed for the day  or wanted their 5 minutes of fame,  but why did the mom of the ASD boy publicize it?

A gesture of "sweet friendship"? I think not. It was not as if he was distributing cards and roses to all his classmates. It was a grand romantic gesture towards one poor girl who did not deserve this embarrassment or to be sexually harassed in a school. She was later made into a villain who is not kind to a poor special ed student. How cruel!   Was she supposed to say yes and kiss him?

I personally think that the evil cheerleaders first put the boy up to publicly propose  to this girl to put her in a awkward position.  Once she said "no", they stepped in to be nice to the "slow" boy and said nasty things about the girl in their "sympathy" message. "You deserve someone better" Really? Why don't they set up a kissing booth for this guy and really make his day? [/quote]

No offense but this sounds ridiculous and paranoid. I was talking in general that many valentines cards are exchanged in schools in platonic ways not horny ways .

I am not on social media and read the story in an article and not on social media. We have no idea if the mom was just posting to a few family and friends and someone reported it to a local newspaper or whatever. I doubt there were any prior plans for it to go viral.

It is nuts to dismiss the teens who sought to boost his morale as evil. They are teenagers and not perfect like the rest of us - but they were trying to make a neuro atypical peer feel included. I highly doubt it was planned or they would have had it all ready to go the same day and not the following day.

The teenagers were trying to make things better. I wish they had not dissed the girl was exercised her rights to reject the valentine proposal in public.

I agree with PP with autistic teen that the public spectacle/ pity porn may not be viewed favorably or validating by many people with LDs struggling for more authentic inclusion. However, the mom reported that it did make this young man very happy and that counts for something.

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