My friend and I have a very close and supportive relationship. She knows how I struggle taking my 2 ASD boys out in public and how I feel judged and upset by the reaction of others. I honestly thought she understood and would never make me feel judged.
However, we went out with our kids for a few hours and my youngest was being very over excited, loud and cheeky. I could see she look horrified whilst I dealt with him and then I told her I had nipped it in the bud. She shot back that he was still being naughty and fired questions at me wanting to know why he had been good on a recent day out but not on the day in question.
I was too shocked to really say much and didn't express my disapproval of describing his disability as being naughty. I made it clear that she had only seen the tip of a very large iceberg. It upsets me that she voiced what I imagined strangers were thinking when he was having his worst meltdowns - he wasn't even having a meltdown so how on earth would she react to that.
Am I being over sensitive, or would you feel the same?
