For clarification, the person who started this thread has Aspergers. The 2nd person to post in this thread has a son with Aspergers. The severity level of each doesn't matter. What matters is that Gabby knows this very well. She feels they should interact with others in order not to look creepy, her own words in this thread. The biggest hurdle for those with Aspergers is the social hurdles, dealing with others, interaction, understanding others. Kinda dismissive to point at someone with Aspergers and tell them to interact with others in order to not look creepy. Quite frankly, probably shouldn't say shit like that to kids without such issues either, but maybe that's just me.
But the kind of attitude you see above, apparently from a public school worker? One of the main reasons that we put my son in a private school, as the public schools sucked and couldn't care less about Jordan, or dealing with any bullying from other kids. The "counselors" were dismissive, just as above, and we had to fight tooth and nail just to get return phone calls. The only thing I ever saw in public school WERE some decent teachers. I saw some that really, really cared and helped kids learn. Some not so much. But the guidance counselors and administration suck. We may be paying an awfully lot for his education now in a private school, but he gets extreme attention and assistance from the guidance counselors and life coaches, and the teachers are beyond awesome. He is the only kid in the school that takes Mandarin for 2 years running now, and they literally brought someone in to have a class for him 3x per week, just for him.
Maybe had he stayed where he was, they may have told him "You do not whine and act like you are special".