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Anonymous wrote:At the very least, this mom should have a phrase to say to people when the boy acts this way. “I apologize. He has some challenges we we working through” or whatever. And I say this as a mom of a child with ADHD who is prone to bouts of inappropriate behavior. It’s odd to me the mother didn’t apologize for her child’s behavior and I think that is the main issue.

Honestly, I'm not in this parenting situation myself, but I think if strangers decide to chat with random children they get what they get. Calming my child would have been more important than yelling an apology over his cries.

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Anonymous wrote:My question is: why are some people so ageist?

OP this is about your mother. Not about legions of older adults. Get a clue. Also, it's "older adults" not "elderly people."

Finally, you are just like your mom. You want her to have compassion, yet you have none for her.

This. My 83YO mother is a retired special ed teacher who has specialized in autism since the early 70s.

Highly unlikely. Autism wasn’t even a diagnosis in the DSM until 1980 and it was mostly being researched in Europe before then. There was a little patchy knowledge on autism in the 70s but more related to psychosis. I highly doubt there is any way your mother specialized in autism in the 70s when it was barely even know

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is: why are some people so ageist?

OP this is about your mother. Not about legions of older adults. Get a clue. Also, it's "older adults" not "elderly people."

Finally, you are just like your mom. You want her to have compassion, yet you have none for her.

This. My 83YO mother is a retired special ed teacher who has specialized in autism since the early 70s.