Judgement from other parents

Hello New to group but been feeling so isolated needed to know if anyone else has same issues.

My child has had issues since 2 and now 5 and half his peadiatric doctor wishes to start multi agency assessment as suspected now that they have austic spectrum disorder.

This was hard to accept but it would explain the additional needs issues they have been having.

However what I am finding hard to deal with is the judgements from other parents in the playground. 

It started in nursery where I would get snide comments as I went through the gates to dirty looks and tuts as I went past to the point I had to see head teacher to ask for 2 children not to be on class with these children (with the support of their teacher who had observed it) that these children were being told to tell other children not go play with mine.

Things seemed to settle in reception and they did improve greatly but those comments keep coming and now parents who dont even have children in same year as mine getting involved.

An incident happened yesterday due to the school making a major change to routine and they couldn't cope. This meant that they had a meltdown and I had to hold them to stop them running off and hurting self. But all I got was comments of animal and monster to the click gathering for a look.

I came home and was in tears and still trying to calm down from that change to routine and noises (has sensory issues as well)

Does anyone know else have to deal with this and if so how do you get through with it? 

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  • that you have a friend who's on your side. Sounds like you're being really resilient too - great idea about having a 'mantra' to repeat to yourself to block out the ignorant / prejudiced comments. 

    I heard of a parent saying to another unhelpful mum 'Do you have a child with autism? No? Then you don't know what you're talking about'. Good luck and take care.Smile

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  • that you have a friend who's on your side. Sounds like you're being really resilient too - great idea about having a 'mantra' to repeat to yourself to block out the ignorant / prejudiced comments. 

    I heard of a parent saying to another unhelpful mum 'Do you have a child with autism? No? Then you don't know what you're talking about'. Good luck and take care.Smile

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