Today, my mother-in-law visited. She saw my 5-year-old son rip open a chip bag, causing chips go everywhere. She got up in his face and started screaming at him about how he has an "attitude problem". He doesn't, he's autistic and genuinely has trouble with food packaging. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I went to Walmart with my mom. At the checkout line I was eating a bag of chips as my mom bought her stuff. I inhaled while eating and I started to choke. The cashier asked me if I was OK. My mom just waved her hand, and said, "Sometimes she does that for attention, ignore her." FML
Today, my father-in law-shared his opinion that autistic kids should be beaten until they act normal. He saw fit to share this while my autistic son was having a meltdown because my father-in-law came to the house without warning, and my son violently hates visitors without prior warning. FML
Today, I caught my mother-in-law filling my one-year-old's cup with Dr. Pepper. When I flipped out, she told me I was overreacting since "all her kids turned out fine." Save for my husband, all her kids are morbidly obese diabetics who’ve struggled with poor diets. She herself is almost 450 lbs. FML
Today, I was making egg salad for the week's lunches and told my son to come help. When we started peeling the eggs, he thought it was funny to roll them off the counter and ruin them. I shouted at him for being disrespectful and wasteful, and my wife screamed at me that, "He's just a little boy!" FML
Today, I don't understand how my wife and son are incapable of opening any kind of packaging without tearing it to shreds. If they open a box of cereal or a bag of chips, it looks like a dog got hold of it. How? FML
Today, I picked up my son, who was recently diagnosed with ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder), from my ex-husband. My ex said, "Yeah, he's over that bullshit eating thing. I told him no video games or TV unless he tried something new at every meal." I hate this smug fucking prick. FML
Today, my 45-year-old child of a mother made such a dramatic scene over finding a hair in her food that the initially apologetic owners ended up kicking my family out. FML
Today, my son won't go to his team dinner because the other kids made fun of him for "eating like a monkey." My wife says this is my fault. Funny, when I tried to teach him not to eat with his fingers, she got mad and ranted that "people ALL OVER THE WORLD eat with their fingers, it's normal, stop criticizing him!" FML
Today, I saw a kid throwing a tantrum in a supermarket. Thinking it was a matter of lack of discipline, I waited for the kid’s mother to come out of the bathroom to tell her how naughty her son was being. I then got to watch her beat her son to the point of unconsciousness. FML
Today, I scolded my son at a buffet after he pointed at an obese woman in a motorized wheelchair and asked how anyone could let themselves get so unhealthy. As I lectured him on genetics and thyroid problems, she rolled past with a plate stacked with an obscene amount of fried food. FML
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Top comments
Kico McAwesome 9
What a complete b*tch no matter if he's special needs or not she soukdnt ever talk to another person's child that way. I am sorry she did that. You must be very unhappy I hope your husband speaks. With her about this.
maroongrad 13
You don't scream at a five year old. Period. My little girl is 4 and also on the spectrum, and while my family is excellent...if they weren't? She wouldn't see them until she was 18 and could make that decision herself, or they bent over backwards and changed their ways. This is a huge FML for your little boy, and it's one for you UNLESS you knew that she was a b*tch and this wasn't shocking and surprising...and you kicked her out in seconds.
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Arokthis 21
You've gotten more than enough advice on how to deal with shitty MIL. For your son, get one of those letter openers that look like the letter "e" and have a hidden blade. They cut through chip quite nicely. Big hug for your son from a fellow autistic, if he likes them. Fist bump, otherwise.
indienerdgirl 27
Wonderful advice. That chip opener would be great for any 5 year old I think. Do you remember where you got yours?
alycion 39
Any office supply store. Walmart. Sometimes Walgreens and target has them. Walmart can hide them outside of office supply section.
onceuponatime456 16
Grab her by the throat and throw her the hell out of your house! Tell her not to come back! A bitch like that is the last thing your son needs!
Storytellermich 1
Wow. Time to cut her out of your life. She may be your MIL, but you are under no obligation to put with that.
Charlie Given 28
Umm time for u to find your local hell's angel chapter to go pay her a visit they and many other biker gang's won't put up with ****'s like that and will teach her alot about humility 😈
TumblrweedPasses 11
Loads of kids have accidents with food, no big deal, tell your son mistakes happen and how to tidy it up. As for the MIL, probably best to tell your spouse what happened and lay down the law on the cow
Thomas Filice 5
**** her life (up with your foot up her butt out the door)
RoseCrystal 17
I hope you immediately frog marched that twunt straight to the door and threw her out.
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
did you tell her to **** off and apologize like you should've
Tim Carver 9
mother in law needs a talking to and needs a ass whooping
coralrose 6
what a bitch i hope you kicked her out probably has some anger issues because i can't think how ripping a bag means you have an attitude problem