hi, first post and looking to vent a bit (sorry!). I'm mum to an 18 year old, non verbal, LF Autistic young man, who I love dearly and whom we cope pretty well with, all things considered. Without fail, on Sunday mornings, we take him to our local Costa for breakfast. He's really well behaved in there, I've even gone just me and him and left him while I queue. Staff are kind, other regular customers obviously aware he isn't 'normal' but never ever any bother.
Today on the way out, he saw a young lady who he recognised as familiar (she wasn't) and he grabbed him by the face. He's not agressive and I quickly got him off her, and explained to her and her friend very calmly, after apologising, that he is autistc and sin reiterated he is disabled and no harm was meant. She was shook up and never said anything, and her friend was a bit disdainful about the whole thing. I apologised again and left but when I got back to the car where my husband and son were waiting and felt really angry about the whole thing. He didn't do it on purpose. I expected more empathy. It's hard enough to find places we can go to and now I feel awkward about returning to Costa now!
Am I overreacting ?!
