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Threatened with the police and shouted at

mumof4boys772

So yesterday around 6.30pm when the supermarket was quieter i popped in to get prawns,yorkshire puds and fresh orange,that is all,my son has the biggest meltdown ever,  a lady pulled him up and said stop it tour embbarrasing your mother and a man screamed across the supermarket to my son "shut up we dont want to hear it! the police are on theyre way". anyway i hadd heard the police part till today and that has made me furious! i heard the shut up bit and i shouted back hes on the autistic spectrum!

My son was absiolutely screaming and refusing to leave the supermarket and it took me around an hour to get out.

Why are people like this, why are they so naive and ignorant?

There were two wondeful ladies there one kept followng him and of course he screamed at her to stop following him but she was trying to help and another watched my trolley whilst i tried to help calm him down and spoke to me she was lovely.

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  • The problem with such issues as meltdown due to sensory overload in public places is that, though frequently reported in children (and distress experienced by adults on the spectrum in such environments) it isn't mentioned in books. The lack of documentation influences public perception.

    I cited particularly "Loving Mr Spock" by Barbara Jacobs, because on Penguin it is widely available. She gives 60 indications of asperger's syndrome od which only two are related: "there can be 'meltdowns' - tantrums caused by frustration" and "a tendancy to feel overloaded by social, emotional and sensory experience".

    I cited two authors - Tony Attwood's Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome, and Simon Baron-Cohen's Autism and Asperger Syndrome, which only have vague mentions.

    Because meltdowns are not widely reported as a symptom of autism it remains inadequately understood in the public mind

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  • The problem with such issues as meltdown due to sensory overload in public places is that, though frequently reported in children (and distress experienced by adults on the spectrum in such environments) it isn't mentioned in books. The lack of documentation influences public perception.

    I cited particularly "Loving Mr Spock" by Barbara Jacobs, because on Penguin it is widely available. She gives 60 indications of asperger's syndrome od which only two are related: "there can be 'meltdowns' - tantrums caused by frustration" and "a tendancy to feel overloaded by social, emotional and sensory experience".

    I cited two authors - Tony Attwood's Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome, and Simon Baron-Cohen's Autism and Asperger Syndrome, which only have vague mentions.

    Because meltdowns are not widely reported as a symptom of autism it remains inadequately understood in the public mind

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