He Told A Mom That He Wasn’t Comfortable With Her Child Sleeping Over At His Daughter’s Birthday Party, And Then This Mom Went Around Telling Everyone That He Uninvited Her Child Completely
This 37-year-old man is a single dad with an 8-year-old daughter, and on Saturday, his daughter will be celebrating her 9th birthday.
His daughter told him that for her party this weekend, she wants to have a pool party at their house with all of her friends.
He also came up with a bunch of other things to keep the kids entertained outside of just swimming in the pool for the day.
“I plan on doing other activities as well, such as bounce houses, a cookout, s’mores, movie by the pool, make-your-own cookies, etc., followed by a sleepover with some of her friends,” he explained.
“It’s gonna be a busy day, and there’ll be roughly 30 kids at my house. Some parents are staying, and some are just dropping off their kids and picking them up later. I’m fine with this.”
He allowed his daughter to put together her party guest list all on her own, and she mentioned to him that she wanted to have one of her autistic classmates come too.
He was alright with his daughter wanting to invite her classmate, as he did always try to help his daughter understand that you should never look at someone different than you and judge them.
The problem that he currently has is that this particular classmate, who he refers to as “A,” has a mom who has gone on to create problems with him.
A’s mom phoned him up a week ago to see if he would be fine with her dropping A off, having him sleep over, and then getting him in the morning.
Drobot Dean – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual child
The thing is, he has zero experience dealing with children who have autism, and A is not really high functioning at all.
A frequently gets overwhelmed, and then he either shuts down entirely, or he has outbursts.
“I told A’s mom that I wouldn’t be comfortable with him being there by himself as I would be too busy with everything else going on and am inexperienced with autistic children,” he said.
“A’s mother got really upset with me, telling me I don’t understand how hard it is for single moms to get alone time, and how A would be devastated that he wouldn’t be able to attend and how happy he was to attend a party since he rarely gets invited to things, among other things.”
“A’s mom is now going around saying I “uninvited ” her son because of his autism, causing parents to throw shade at me. The parents that are staying offered to help with A, but they also have little to no experience with autistic children either. One parent on my side said A’s mother did this to her at her son’s party, and he definitely is a handful, so not to feel bad.”
Regardless, he’s left wondering if he shouldn’t have told A’s mom that he didn’t want her son to sleep over.
What do you think?
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