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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a note to say not ALL children are on the spectrum, spectrum adjacent, have an anxiety disorder, or some other excuse as a reason to be rude to others. Seriously some people are just rude. [/quote]

23489237493 people have already said this.  OP is agreeing with all of them,  why do you need to post this?

I tell my socially awkward girl that people may think she's rude..  I guess I'm right.  People suck[/quote]

You certainly do. Stop lashing out at people for your failure to parent your child. [/quote]

Or sincerely, get them help. There are therapists that can role play all of this stuff.  Help your child.  This is extreme anxiety and is affecting their life.  My kid had something kind of like this going on that was affecting his life and we got him help.[/quote]

Is there a therapist who can role play "what to do when someone doesn't return your greeting?"  Because it sounds like some kids (or, more likely, their moms) are absolutely melting down about the horrifying "rudeness" in a way that makes me think there's something else going on there.[/quote]

It is rude, and it's not just kids.

My DH and I have started noticing how common it is for the adults in our neighborhood to just never acknowledge other adults, even ones they see regularly. Just this morning I was walking to school with my DD when a woman walked by with a kid going to the same school. Now, I have seen this woman almost every day for the last two years because we live a couple blocks apart and our kids go to the same school in the same grade. I know she's the child's grandmother, and I also know the child's mother. I would smile and nod or say hello to this family every day for a year and they never once reciprocated. They'd look at me and not smile or just look at me silently after I said hello. It is weird AF but it's really common.

So this morning when this woman went by with this kid, I said nothing because obviously that's how she likes it. And it's apparently how a lot of families in our neighborhood feel. But it's weird and anti-social and one of the reasons kids aren't learning to greet each other or acknowledge one another is because their parents (and grandparents!) don't do it either. I have to assume Covid is part of what is going on, but are we all so broken we can no long say hello to our neighbors? Is this the kind of world we have decided to live in, staring at our phones, refusing basic interactions with anyone not in our inner circle? Because it sucks, and not just for OP's kid.[/quote]

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