Parents w/ heads in the sand make me so MAD!!

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I ran into the mom that had originally sought me out as her child who she

things has asperger's is in my nt daughter's class. She backed off from me after

we had a long talk and I posted here and you all said to let it go.

Well, today we were walking the same way for pick up and we said Hi and I

couldn't resist asking her how things are going. She said her son is doing fine

and that the teacher " is keeping an eye on him " and she's happy with that. She

say's he hasn't had any meltdowns in school.

Because I can't keep my mouth shut I told her that my daughter said she's seen

him stimming. She said, " saw him what? Oh, you said stimming. " Then she makes

the flapping that he does (hand repeatedly up and down over the mouth, but hand

is parallel with the ground) Mom says, oh, yeah, he does that. I backed way off

and talked about the weekend.

I am so frustrated. Head in the sand is a bad way to help your kid. The teacher

keeping her " eye on " her son is in her very first year of teaching and she is

young!!

Mom doesn't want to hear that the girls don't like to be around her son because

they think it's weird what he's doing with his mouth. I get it as this mom wants

to act as if her son is like the others so she can mix with the group of moms I

see her mix with--some clicky ones.

The mom doesn't want to get it, but I have to let this go as this mom will have

a huge mess thrown in her lap on this kids first meltdown in school. However,

she'll still probably find some way to minimize that event, too, just as she

minimizes her son stimming oh and yeah, he's a complete loner at recess.

Grrrrr!!