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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here -- first time I’m responding, so I was not the one who said it’s my right to know something just because I’m at someone’s home.  From my perspective, no idea if he is on the spectrum, nor do I expect anyone to share a medical diagnosis with me.

Is it possible that a kid is so into his own “world” -- whether it’s the internet or video games or whatever that he just doesn’t “know” how to socialize, or does it have to be a medical issue?

Either way -- why is it my business? Because these parents expect others to interact with their kid.  How is one supposed to interact when the kid acts like this? This isn’t like putting up with a little kid with annoying behavior -- you do it because they’re little and don’t know better, but a high school junior -- shouldn’t they GET how other teen boys act and just mimic that behavior in public? I think I agree with the PP that parents can shift the kids 1-2 points on the scale but can’t change them altogether because I can’t imagine that these parents WANT this behavior.[/quote]

No, you don't get an out here, OP.  You're shifting from your original post in which you lambasted these parents and ridiculed adults ("those guys") who are most likely on the spectrum.  You could have been describing a close relative of mine and while I know there are people with your kind of ungenerous attitude in the world, it pains me.

Interacting with people is called human consideration.  Yes, they expect you to interact.  He's not an inanimate object.  I would be pretty pissed if you treated my DS, who has AS and sounds a lot like this kid, as a piece of furniture.  You get no sympathy because its difficult.  had you posted something along the lines of "I am having trouble interacting with a friend's son because of ____," it might have been different.  Instead you posted about what bad parents this kid has.

Poor you, having to try to make conversation with a child who has a disability.  What burdens you have.[/quote]

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