Today, my son's first impression of our new neighborhood was to be yelled at by the first kid he tried to introduce himself to, because my son was on the edge of their lawn. Half-an-hour later, I got a lecture at the corner store, because the clerk thinks vaccinations caused my son's autism. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my new neighbors moved in. I was assured that it would be a family with two teenagers. The young children playing in the front yard suggested otherwise. This wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t autistic, and sensitive to the sounds of screaming kids. FML
Today, I was at the park with my autistic son when I noticed a teenage girl imitating him by flapping her hands and walking on her toes. Fed up with children mocking my son, I went over and sternly lectured the girl's mother. Turns out, her daughter is autistic too and will be in my son's class. FML
Today, I took my child to the park. Having been there an hour, another mum came up to me and we started talking. She then told me that one kid had been harassing her children, pointing to my child. When she asked which one was mine I pointed to a random kid. It was hers. FML
Today, I took my son to the playground and watched him have fun. Minutes later, I was being shoved around and called a pedophile because I was there alone with no wife. By the time I convinced them I was innocent, my son was bawling. FML
Today, I found out why people in my new neighborhood keep giving me weird looks. For a laugh, my brother had gone around telling them I'm a parolee, and implying that I couldn't be trusted around their children. 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 was ecstatic my autistic son went on a play date. It went wonderfully and my son was happier than he’s ever been. Sadly, the dad was such a damn creep he hit on me every time the kids were out of earshot. I don’t want my son to lose his only friend but the dad makes me so uncomfortable. FML
Today, I had to deal with a lady who claimed her son was autistic to try and skip the queue. Even her son was saying he’s not autistic, and she was screaming in his face that yes he was. I happen to be genuinely autistic. Security threw her out, and I was jealous that I didn’t get to do it. FML
Today, my son told me that some kids had been picking on him at school. When I asked him to elaborate, he said that kids sometimes didn't say "Hi" back when he greeted them. FML
Today, my high school speech therapist introduced me to the other autistic kid in school without fully informing either of us. We got into a fist fight because we each thought the other guy was imitating us. FML
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Top comments
rosslynch553 16
Vaccines aren't bad! They prevent serious outbreaks of diseases. They dont cause autism!
Daniven36 12
I thought Canada was supposed to be nice?
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Comments (49)
doodlecloud 27
Ugh, even if vaccines DID cause autism, how would a lecture from some twat at a corner store help? Can't go back and change it, even if you wanted. So even if he does believe that he should shut the hell up.
GoldCyclone 21
What caused the storekeeper's stupidity?
EwahWeeWah 21
Following the sheep herd, it seems.
brick0 11
Just tell your son those people are assholes whom you do not need to associate yourselves with and move on with your life.
TheNewGuy03 29
DOCBASTARD!!! WE NEED YOU OVER HERE!
bad_boyfriend 10
Wait until you meet the president of the HOA
soulreaper12296 28
If people in the neighborhood are that stupid I'd be trying to find a new one. Or just avoid everyone as much as possible.
Talis99 26
I'm sorry to hear of your experiences, OP. Surely not everyone is that ******* rude. My condolences on your son's autism, but thank you for being an intelligent parent who didn't listen to the insistence that vaccines cause autism and good luck to you and your son. I wish you all the best.
ciammmm 11
Autism isn't something that requires condolences.
CopperTodd17 10
I'm wondering if the child who yelled at him for being on his lawn was ASD himself?
Seabass_Chan 33
No one tell DocBastard about this FML.
TheNewGuy03 29
It IS his Twitter. Like ... almost everything. I'm surprised his brain hasn't shattered into fragments trying to comprehend all the stupidity that he is fighting.
eyepuppy 31
How to raise the blood pressure of DocBastard in three easy words; Vaccines cause autism.
BrotherPhil 35
He's a good man.
fordneagles 34
A friend of mine has a child with autism. Someone once said to her that vaccines had caused the child's autism. She looked her dead in the eye and said he'd never been vaccinated. It wasn't true, he was fully vaccinated, but it was fun watching the stupid woman's brains just implode.