Today, my six year old son came up to me with his arms spread and said, "I feel like a hug." I got really excited and hopeful because he is very anti-social and hates physical contact. As soon as I stood up to hug him he said "Feeling's gone" and walked away. 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 spouse gave me the gift of hugging me. I'm so touch-starved, I cried. I can see our relationship crumbling but I'm the only one who seems to want to fix it. Our kid saw me and I can't even explain how sad it made me. FML
Today, when I called my 2-year-old son over for a hug, he giggled and squealed as he ran over to me. He then stopped in front of me, punched me in the bollocks, and walked away quite happily whilst I was doubled over in pain. FML
Today, when my son woke up from his nap, he sleepily reached up. I picked him up and gave him a big hug, and he immediately pushed me away. He wasn't reaching for me, he was reaching for the bag of chips on the table next to me. FML
Today, I went to see my mother with my kids. Before, I had told my son to give her hugs and kisses and I would buy him candy. He did, but then he told her that I said that. FML
Today, I tried to cuddle Simon, my five year-old son. He wriggled away and said, "If you need a teddy bear, go buy one! Or get another Simon!" FML
Today, at midnight, I heard my son calling for his mom. I stopped by his room and asked him what was wrong? He didn't tell me. Instead, he said: "Oh, I don't need you." FML
Today, I went to pick up my daughter from preschool. When I got there, I ran to give her a hug. She screamed and ran away. FML
Today, my four-year-old son asked me for a "boobie hug" in Walmart. It's something his dad thinks is cute and I've just gotten used to, so I hugged him without question. From the other end of the aisle, a strange man asked, "Can I have one too?" FML
Today, after my 4 year-old was so excited to be a big sister, hugging my belly every chance she got, counting down the days till the due date, my son was born this morning. She took one look at him and declared, “I don’t like him, leave him here, do we have to keep him?” then started crying. FML
Today, despite being an incredible single mother to my only child, and loving him more than anyone else could, my son still completely ignored me and my attempts to hug him at his gender reveal party with his wife. Apparently she deserved a hug more than I do. FML
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DocBastard 40
I usually don't do this, but anti-social behaviour and avoidance of physical contact can be signs of autism. Now before anyone jumps on me, I'm not making any diagnosis here. I'm only saying they are signs that something deeper MAY be going on. Ok, now you may flame the shit out of me.
ilovecookies83 0
Awe you should have ran after him and gave him a bear hug anyways and a kiss on the cheek and be like "my feelings not gone kiddo!" :)
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HU4L188 0
awww
Yogo_fml 7
LOL at your pic
daybowbow 0
is Katy Perry headlining again? Rock out, bro.
daybowbow 0
Shit. Was for 16's Warped Tour pic. Fail.
GayBaconStrip 0
Just walk after him and give him a bear hug! And then feed him bacon to cheer him up.
iiDAN 0
Gay Candy Bacon Strips! epicmealtime?(:
Nosrebor 8
and bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips... and bacon strips... haha
F0xyTurtle 8
nice flip bro ;D
Jay1D 0
So when does the Narwhal bacon?
shovels 0
I love epicmealtime....
SmallTownCutie 0
I think he was wanting a consensual hug for once. I'm not a fan of physical contact and my family gets very frustrated, because on occasion they would like me to hug them. That's probably OP's situation.
jillianmathers12 13
If I were you I would bribe him with toys! Maybe that will get you a hug!
IndigoFuckYou 9
Then he becomes spoiled and develops a false sense of affection triggered by material possessions. Because that's healthy for any kid.
Beast_Hoff 0
OWNED!! lol
hateevryone 15
awww maybe he just needs a friend
cocomymoco 0
welllll... if hes antisocial he is gonna need quite a few friends actually ;)
shadowgamer_x 0
Sounds like he's autistic.
Longhorn1011 0
That was my first thought too. Sounds like a lot of the kids I've taught with autism. No reason this comment should be getting bad reviews. Autism isn't a bad thing, it's just something that you'll have to work around. The ignorance that passes here is laughable.
gar4152 0
That's exactly what I was thinking.
ShyAnn29 15
I was think that also! I'm glad someone said that
hannahtaskey 9
I have Autism and had to get a lot of help for it when I was little. And I definitely agree also, this sounds like Autism.
hannahtaskey 9
I also agree to this comment. I got diagnosed with it 15 years ago. It is a lot of work to get help for any child with it, but it helps so much.
SmallTownCutie 0
I thought it sounded a lot like aspergers. My older brother is an aspy, with a dry sense of humor, and he's done something very similar to this before. It's just a more high functioning form of autism.
Longhorn1011 0
High function autism is exhausting for kid's family and educators. I taught a high function autism child for a year just an hour a week, and it wore me out. Amazing how some parents can do it.
cocomymoco 0
i really don't think that is autism... I have a neighbor who's child was believed to be autistic. It turns out he wasn't and that the parents just... well, weren't doing as good of a job as they should have. Autism is being so overly diagnosed just because some kids weren't raised in an ideal way, either because they weren't socialized as much as they could have been when they were younger or because their parents didn't do a proper job of keeping them and their anger in control. **i am NOT saying this is true for all cases.
IbanezSprinter 0
it's not just not being social...not liking to be touched is common in autistic children, it isn't a bad thing, we're not trying to make it sound like it, we are not attacking him. But there is more to autism than not being touched and being anti-social so he may not be. But from the information given, it sounds like he could be.
xJudii 5
Adorable , he reminds me of the little boy from the movie 'The Switch' (:
SexyQueen0905 24
Hey better no contact then too much contact, if you catch my drift!
Wandering_Ninja 8
he touched my no no square
unrose 1
he'll grow out if it.. try encouraging him more to be more social. not an fml unless you have a condition that makes it hard for you to get up/sit back down.
DocBastard 40
I usually don't do this, but anti-social behaviour and avoidance of physical contact can be signs of autism. Now before anyone jumps on me, I'm not making any diagnosis here. I'm only saying they are signs that something deeper MAY be going on. Ok, now you may flame the shit out of me.
DocBastard 40
Sure Boners, but only if it's the tiger-stripe bikini briefs. Those leather chaps you wore last time gave me a rash.
GuessWhatKids 13
WTF dock thts so meen!!!callng sumone otistick is illegal!! he culd just b a slowe boomer!!!! woww dock jus cuz u hav dock in ur name dusnt men u csmn call ppl fags!!!reported fagget (This is a joke for anyone with a bad sarcasm detector.)
flockz 20
53- attempting to read your message gave me a migraine like after the time i saw doc and boners hugging with nothing on. it still disturbs me.
LardZilla 11
Did anyone else think they lost braincells from reading 53's comment?
gar4152 0
That's what I was thinking. No I am not a doc, just have been around a lot of autistic kids. That sounds a lot like autism.
GuessWhatKids 13
Hey idiots, I was joking, as I already stated.
Babalu722 3
i was loving that combo between boners and doc and you just killed it...
xXRiah_GirlXx 9
lol win
Babalu722 3
convo***
GuessWhatKids 13
You mean the off-topic retardation that you illiterates thrive on? I agree, most amusing.
Kennzz 0
53.. just because your kidding doesn't mean you can't effin spell and write like a normal person would.
Babalu722 3
103- we all know that we feel smart when we use big words, but try not to make it an "every time" thing, because it gets very old very fast
IndigoFuckYou 9
sigh...103, I think what everyone on this thread is trying to tell you, is that you're not funny, and you shouldn't spoil an intimate, raunchy hug between Doc and Boners just because you think you are.
GuessWhatKids 13
I'm surprisingly not intimidated by all you idiots calling me stupid/unamusing when none of you have any idea how to properly construct a sentence. Go suck the dicks of commenters you worship, please. Please thumb me down, I find it amusing that you care enough to argue with a stranger over the internet for "forcing" you to read my joke. it's honestly pathetic how serious you all are. Dismissed.
Mademoiselle_fml 34
Seems like an awfully clever thing to say for a child with autism. Seems more like asperger's to me, if at all. I have a cousin with autism, and my brother has asperger's. He's a bloody genius but completely anti-social. It could be nothing, though. Probably just another cheeky kid on the loose.
jet223 20
That sounded so British. I love it.
sammysquiggs 19
Asperger's is autism?
TheAspieDork 27
#335 It was originally its own disorder but now it's considered a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder
weird_little_kid 0
put him in time out and say the only way out is a HUG