She Took Her Autistic Daughter Trick-Or-Treating, And When One Woman Refused To Give Her Candy, She Warned Other Parents
This woman and her husband have five children between the two of them. Her husband has two children from a previous relationship, who are 13 and 9, and she has 1 child from a previous relationship who is 14.
Together, she and her husband went on to have two children, who are 3 and 6, and their 6-year-old is Autistic.
She says that her Autistic daughter can talk, but she dislikes strangers and never says anything to them.
This Halloween, she was concerned about taking her Autistic daughter out to trick-or-treat, as not everyone is kind to neurodivergent children.
“I was worried about taking her trick-or-treating, but I know she practiced at school, and we practiced the signs “candy please” and “thank you,” she explained.
“It was going well at first, [but] then she started to get tired. At one of our last houses, she didn’t speak or sign.”
“The woman was handing out goodie bags with king-size candy bars and stickers. She gave one to all of my kids except for my 6-year-old.”
After leaving this woman’s front door, her daughter came running up to her in tears. Her 14-year-old son then informed her that the woman at that house didn’t give her daughter any candy at all because she would not say “trick or treat” to her.
She decided to walk up to the woman’s front door and explain to her that her daughter is Autistic, so she doesn’t really talk a lot.
Tijana – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual children
Still, this woman refused to give her any candy unless she told her “trick or treat.” She went back and forth with the woman, trying to get her to understand her daughter, and eventually, she made all of her kids give their candy bags back to this woman before leaving.
She then decided to text a group of parents in her daughter’s class who have special ed and general ed children, and she gave them this woman’s address before explaining what had occurred with her daughter.
She wanted to save other parents the headache and heartache of having to deal with this woman, and that was her reason for sending the text in the first place.
“Word spread pretty quickly, so that house was not very popular last night except for some pranks,” she said.
“People even posted about her on Nextdoor. Now she’s posting about me and my kids, and this whole thing is blown out of proportion. I was wondering if I was wrong for telling parents not to take their kids to her house.”
What do you think?
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