Of course autism isn't contagious. It comes from immunizations. I thought everyone knew that.

The parent in question didn't actually say that you can catch autism from a play date: that was the author's speculation of her motivation.

I've actually had a lot more problems with parents of non-autistic kids than with the kids themselves. I'd never force my kids on anyone, and rarely make overtures for playdates etc unless the other child indicates that they want them. Sounds like she just got another biatchy mom, and God knows there aren't enough of them around.

It's amazed me since my kids started school (they're almost 12 now) that it doesn't really seem to make a difference to most other kids that they're different. Maybe we've just lived in good communities, but it sure has been a lot more positive than I was expecting.

It is as it was, as it is.

WTF is a "play date?"

mediaho
WTF is a "play date?"

It's when siblings have sex. "We was only playin"

Playdate = way to sexualize children at a young age.

boobsrgood, Virtue

Nice. I especially like the contrast between your usernames.

If you replaced "autistic" with "black", this mother would probably be using the race card.

mediaho: WTF is a "play date?"

In our days, kids would just get together whenever and with whomever and played outside or something.

These days, parents are so farkin busy and paranoid, that they have to arrange time with other parents they like when their little crotchfruits want to play with each other.

know what I hate? people who demand their retard children be treated the same when they're obviously not

I dunno. That's how I caught it.

/Excellent driver

If anyone calls me out of the blue asking for a play date to be arranged with my kid, I'm going to act pretty standoffish. I don't like talking on the phone, I don't like strangers, and I'm automatically defensive and skeptical of anyone that wants to involve my daughter in anything.

Ambitwistor: The parent in question didn't actually say that you can catch autism from a play date: that was the author's speculation of her motivation.


That was my reading of it.


The other mom probably was of the opinion "Kids make their own friends, kthnxbye"

She not scared of her kidding catching teh autism, she lets her kid befriend who he wants.

Maybe her kid just didn't like trying to play with a kid that has no idea other people exist?

Can you imagine being in Highschool and have your girlfriend ask you "So, how did you and Rob meet and become friends?"

"Oh, my mom called his mom and they set up a 'play date' between us."

Wouldn't that tell the chick that you can't do anything on your own?

Omarion: mediaho: WTF is a "play date?"

In our days, kids would just get together whenever and with whomever and played outside or something.

These days, snobby parents are so farkin busy and paranoid, that they have to arrange time with other parents they like when their little crotchfruits want to play with each other.

FTFY


kids are still kids, you just happen to see this all the time as the snobs seem to have motor vehicles and can get from place to place seemingly quickly, which allows for large groups to form a huge vortex of snobby suck.

Meh. The writer has issues of her own ...

FTFA:
The mother sounded as if I was taking up too much of her time. And she was certainly not receptive to the idea of getting our boys together.


This story is so full of conditionals in all the most important places, it smells of bullshiat.

mediaho: WTF is a "play date?"

Modern children have so much of their day scheduled and managed by various entities that the act of them getting to play with another kid has to be squeezed into their day and a space "opened up" for it between mandatory extracurriculars and school and the single hour of scheduled "family time" with the two working parents and the weekly trip to the family therapist to find out why the hell little Jimmy seems to be so depressed at age eight.

Drakkenmaw:
Modern children have so much of their day scheduled and managed by various entities that the act of them getting to play with another kid has to be squeezed into their day and a space "opened up" for it between mandatory extracurriculars and school and the single hour of scheduled "family time" with the two working parents and the weekly trip to the family therapist to find out why the hell little Jimmy seems to be so depressed at age eight.

this is the best definition yet...

Omarion These days, parents are so farkin busy and paranoid, that they have to arrange time with other parents they like when their little crotchfruits want to play with each other.

Or, assclown, they happen not to live in a neighborhood where it is possible for their kids to get together with other kids on their own. Besides, people who use terms like "crotchfruit" usually are the first to biatch about being able to even see or hear children playing outside, so you should be glad instead of complaining about how people raise their kids.

Drakkenmaw: Modern children have so much of their day scheduled and managed by various entities that the act of them getting to play with another kid has to be squeezed into their day and a space "opened up" for it between mandatory extracurriculars and school and the single hour of scheduled "family time" with the two working parents and the weekly trip to the family therapist to find out why the hell little Jimmy seems to be so depressed at age eight.

Dude, commas; use them.
Periods aren't bad either.

Phaid: Or, assclown, they happen not to live in a neighborhood where it is possible for their kids to get together with other kids on their own.

It's also possible the kid didn't really want to play with the writer's son. It's possible the mother took the fall for her kid.
The writer assumed he wanted to play but she assumes so much, I don't believe a word of it.

OK lady, you feel better after writing that?

Thanks for the answers. It sounds forced and awkward. I'm pretty sure that if my parents picked my friends, the only thing we'd have in common is that our parents know each other.

Nothing lays the groundwork for building friendships better than DESPERATION.

Phaid:
Or, assclown, they happen not to live in a neighborhood where it is possible for their kids to get together with other kids on their own. Besides, people who use terms like "crotchfruit" usually are the first to biatch about being able to even see or hear children playing outside, so you should be glad instead of complaining about how people raise their kids.

I don't mind the kids making noise and having fun, it's pretty much their nature. It's the certain type of parents who have to structure every single second of the kid's life and then wonder why the kid is farked up when they are older.

And btw, wtf kind of neighborhood is that, feel sorry for the kids that live there and will grow up socially stunted.

Phaid Or, assclown, they happen not to live in a neighborhood where it is possible for their kids to get together with other kids on their own. Besides, people who use terms like "crotchfruit" usually are the first to biatch about being able to even see or hear children playing outside, so you should be glad instead of complaining about how people raise their kids.

This. It almost never ceases to amaze me how much hostility is directed toward parents and children here on Fark. Then I remember that most Farkers are likely either high school/college kids who have no clue about what it's like to have, raise, and love a child, or they're social rejects and misfits who can't get laid, and thus never will have a clue about what that's like.

/I don't care if you don't like kids
//quit biatching about how I raise mine

Knucklepopper: Dude, commas; use them.
Periods aren't bad either.

I know how grammar works. I also know that run-on sentences unmodified by punctuation give an impression of being harried or flustered. In other words, I did it on purpose. I also sometimes use sentence fragments for emphasis. Not that this really means much, but there you go.

It seemed as if she didn't want her son socializing with mine because she feared that her child might "catch" Jeffrey's disability. Autism is not contagious, nor are the other conditions that land children into special-needs classes.

Jeffrey's playmates will not catch his autism, but Jeffrey did catch it from his Mother. Autism is genetic and she's the one spreading it. Play with Jeffrey but don't play with the Mother.

Arrange a play date? Hell no!

If your kid wants to come over and knock on the door and ask if My Precious Little Damien can play, fine. They can play in backyard, ride bicycles or whatever. As long as they stay out of my stash. I'll send him home at dinnertime or when he gets annoying.

/Not a mother
//But if I had a son, he would be My Precious Little Damien.

Newsflash: not everyone wants to be your friend. This mother saying that the other is afraid of her kid getting autism is just making shiat up and speculating. Who knows, maybe the other kid's mom was in the middle of something important and had to call. If you just call someone up randomly, 90% of the time it's not going to be a good time.

had to call go

I know some people who caught the ghey from hanging out with gheys...

Parents be warned... it can happen!!!

/gonna teach my kids to hate the things i hate...

they happen not to live in a neighborhood where it is possible for their kids to get together with other kids on their own.


I think this is what parks with playgrounds are for.

Exsanguinater: Arrange a play date? Hell no!

If your kid wants to come over and knock on the door and ask if My Precious Little Damien can play, fine. They can play in backyard, ride bicycles or whatever. As long as they stay out of my stash. I'll send him home at dinnertime or when he gets annoying.

/Not a mother
//But if I had a son, he would be My Precious Little Damien.

the closest locational friend i regularly hung out with pre-10 lived 15 miles away. you can bet that i didn't come over and knock on the door. Although i don't remember specifically, i don't think we did much of the arrangement of hang out time. i think our parents arranged it based on when people were home to watch us. my best friend in highschool was very close, and he was still a 5 minute drive by car.

some of us rural kids required parental arrangement of these things. not saying thats necessarily the case here, but i don't think it was unusual even in the days of yore

My oldest son has autism spectrum disorder. He's smarter than your children. One day, your kids will be suing my son's company for anti-trust violations. And he'll ask the judge, "Can you take a check?"

Ambitwistor: The parent in question didn't actually say that you can catch autism from a play date: that was the author's speculation of her motivation.

Exactly. I think the other mother (like many other parents) just don't understand autism at all (and other mental disabilities for that matter), and it kind of scares them because they don't know what to expect.

Its sad, really... this in this day and age, mentally disabled people are still treated like they have the plague or something. There are those people that just don't understand it, and simply try steer clear of contact with persons with special needs, then there are those that make fun of it because they don't understand it. If you don't understand something, do a little research rather than belittling a person that can't defend themselves.

You know who else didn't want to play with autistic children....

mother sounds like a tool

other parents probably didn't care for the idea of having her around or even having to deal with her on a regular basis. she sounds like the pushy, demanding sort that flies into temper tantrums when they can't "work around" her schedule.

These PEOPLE. Ugh.
From the U.S. American Medical Journal of Medicine:

"Autism cannot be contracted through playdates, especially if condoms and dental dams are used as prophylaxis.

Other conditions, however, may be transmitted via playdates, including being gay, cross-dressing, or being black.

Rest assured the U.S. American Medical Journal of Medicine is doing everything possible to keep some people out there, like such as in the Iraq and South Africa, safe."

Sleaze: My oldest son has autism spectrum disorder. He's smarter than your children. One day, your kids will be suing my son's company for anti-trust violations. And he'll ask the judge, "Can you take a check?"

LOL nice. My brother is severely autistic, and he is simply brilliant for an 11 year old. He has been able to play games on the computer since he was 3, do 100 piece puzzels since he was 2. He can spell, read, write etc etc... its just the social skills that he lacks, and he used to lack in speach until my parents found a wonderful school for him. He's really the funniest, sweetest most precious boy I have ever met in my entire life.

Its a shame that a lot of people they're better than him just because he is different. I wish people would educate themselves rather than jumping to conclusions.

jaldor This. It almost never ceases to amaze me how much hostility is directed toward parents and children here on Fark. Then I remember that most Farkers are likely either high school/college kids who have no clue about what it's like to have, raise, and love a child, or they're social rejects and misfits who can't get laid, and thus never will have a clue about what that's like.

/I don't care if you don't like kids
//quit biatching about how I raise mine

I feel just the opposite. I love kids and really hope to have one someday (30 years old, so it may not really happen) but all this hatred toward children and parents on Fark just makes me laugh for some reason.

Alyna_jf: Its sad, really... this in this day and age, mentally disabled people are still treated like they have the plague or something.

In this day and age? It almost sounds like you expect people to be smarter today than in the past. Evolution doesn't work that quickly sorry. And with most of our survival instincts useless in the world we live in today, along with the dumbest people having the most kids, we will probably be going backwards not forwards.

TrixieDelite: These PEOPLE. Ugh.
From the U.S. American Medical Journal of Medicine:

"Autism cannot be contracted through playdates, especially if condoms and dental dams are used as prophylaxis.

Other conditions, however, may be transmitted via playdates, including being gay, cross-dressing, or being black.

Rest assured the U.S. American Medical Journal of Medicine is doing everything possible to keep some people out there, like such as in the Iraq and South Africa, safe."

LMFAO!!!