ur really pretty! :D

Age is relevent because at 13 you can control your actions and know what you're doing. Fear of needles is not a way to justify biting and throwing objects at someone. Bottom line, in my perspective the kid was wrong because he has full control of his actions and OP was kind to consider that the child could be special and going easy on him instead of assuming he's a brat.

Uhh no it ISN'T meant to be "special." - "special" is the end of the sentence, therefore the quotation marks go BEFORE the full stop. DUH.

Everyone please calm down about the punctuation. It varies in different parts of the world. Damn.

If the whole sentence was a quotation then the punctuation would go inside the marks, as it's just one word, it goes outside in fitting with the rest of the sentence. Or so I've always known. Back on topic. OP, next time check the records first (assuming that's how you found out this kind wasn't special). That way you can ask the mother to intervene if the kid acts up. But that behaviour is unacceptable when the person doing it has complete control of their actions, especially at thirteen, by which time a kid should know whats unacceptable. Also, was it the mum who said the kid was special? Because if she did then she probably said it so no one could blame her for the kids bad behaviour.

Cinn, you're right according to your region of the world's grammar rules.

You freaking Grammar Nazis need to shut the **** up. Like holy shit.

Like holy shit, ZOMG YOU ARE SO RIGHT!Like, seriously. Like, like, oh my gosh, like. Like OMG!

Cinn, For immunizations, they may have gone to a clinic or "urgent care" which may not carry the patients records.

Schitzomaniac, I did say 'as far as I've always known', implying that it was what I'd been taught and not right everywhere, therefore it doesn't necessarily mean the OP is wrong for doing it a way someone else was taught. I'm not a grammar nazi, my grammar isn't good enough. :) RedPill - I can't say I know a lot about immunisation clinics, but when my friend got her jabs for holiday she had to go to the GP first and then somewhere else to get them, so I assumed that any notable points would have been forwarded to the nurse/dr doing the shots from the GP. I also assumed that the OP found out the kid wasn't "special" by looking at the medical records after the incident. I do think that if the kid had been "special" it would have been something worth the kids actual dr mentioning to any nurse/dr who treats the child, especially if it would cause the child to act in the way this one did.

Your comma at the end of your quote should have gone on the inside. "As far as I've known," that's what I said. Semicolons, however, always go on the outside of quotations, like so: "As far as I've known"; that's what I said. Actually, the ONLY punctuation mark I am uncertain of in regard to where it is placed around quotations is the period. The rest are easy. I think I'll agree that the period should go on the inside, though.

Splayd, read post #42 and you'll understand why I put it the way I put it.

#34 and #42, inside quotations is the American English way of doing it. Y'all need to stop arguing, both are right. What is taught just depends on where you are.

i dont think thats legal... would be awesome if it was tho.

a round of shots for everyone!!!!

I don't know how they do things where Op is from, but where I'm from, when you go to the doctor's office, it's the nurses giving the shots. Op never said she was a doctor, just that she's in pediatrics. I'm guessing she's a nurse, and for some reason didn't have access to the child's full medical records. Or, I could be wrong and Op's just an idiot who doesn't look at her patients' charts.

Besides, there are plenty of parents who are in full-out denial that their child isn't "normal." I've seen parents go to great lengths to deny their kid has what are obviously developmental disabilities, including doctor-hopping and pulling a child out of school to homeschool him because "there's nothing wrong with him; he's just misunderstood." Unless I'm mistaken about how detailed patient records are, such a case wouldn't have medical records about a disability since the parent either wouldn't have those records transferred or obtained at all.

40 - I suggest you get some sleep. Your brain is overheating.

Maybe the mum said the kid was special. Though I agree the OP should've checked the records first.

When you give someone a shot it's a bit irrelevent whether they are special or not. they check what your allergic to and I you've had that shot and if it's going affect any other shots you've recently had, ect. Going through a persons Complete medical history is a waste of time if it's just going to be a simple shot.

a simple shot? if the child really was special needs I know for a fact that they would handle it differently knowing that there is a chance that there could be some sort of complication op deserved it for not doing her job properly

Again, records can be incomplete or wrong.

And not all "minute clinics" have the full patient records. They rely on the parent filling out those forms for something like immunization. So it's entirely plausible that OP didn't have the patient records.

How differently would they have handled it if the child was special? strapped him down to a chair? No. They would have handled it how op handled it considering she thought he was special. The person who does my shots just asks a few questions an administers the shot, that's HER job. It's the actual doctors job to check records an what not. and no the person who does shots and my doctor are not the same person. op did not deserve it cuz she was doing her job.

Checking his records is actually irrelevent since we are talking about a kid acting out violently for no reason. Checking records wouldn't have prevented the kid from doing what he did.

54- So, according to you, OP deserved to get spit on, kicked and have a chair thrown at them? Nobody deserves that! This little 13 yr. old monster deserves to be locked in a cage.