A woman shared how her son used vulgarities on an old woman who was harassing his brother and she was fine with it.
Here is the story:
“My husband is staying with his mother. Both are in isolation. Thank goodness my kids, and I are fine.
I had to buy some groceries so I took my kids aged 5, 8, 12 with me. (for storytelling purpose I will name them by their age number)
8 is on the spectrum and has trouble in places like grocery stores. I gave him an iPad with cellular and over the ear headphones. He should be good to go. He doesn’t like loud noises or strangers touching him.
While in line, 12 is a lot of help with his brothers, so he’s trying to help me with 5 throwing junk food in the cart.
I decided to go to the cashier’s checkout, and then the line was long.
8 is good. Just chilling watching his cartoons with his headphones. Until this old lady behind us is Upset over something. I’m ignoring her, but 12 grabs me and says I think we have an issue.
The lady starts going on about kids today and technology. She is trying to get 8 attention. I don’t want to startle him, so 12 moves between them. But 5 is looking at more cookies.
The old woman told me my kids were rude, ignoring her.
She taps on my 8 year old, and I pull him aside. He looks up from his iPad and takes his headphones off to see if something is wrong. I’m trying to get his headphones back on, and the old woman says these types of things are for at home only, and I need to teach my kids to interact in public.
She tells 8 he’s old enough to know better than to act like this, Scolding him. Loudly publicly and in the middle of the store.
8 starts to cry, the first sign of a meltdown with him.
12 turns to the old woman and says, “you s—-d b—- he’s autistic.” While I usually would tell 12 off because I have more issues to deal with. The old lady wants to talk to security and starts making a scene about my kids screaming they called her a bitch.
I finally leave a full trolley of food there and leave, security tried to stop me, saying I had to get 8 to the car. He has autism, and he’s going to have a major meltdown. 12 talks to security and tells him about the old lady in line.”