horrifyingly entitled parents

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First story: Not only was the child abandoned, the car seat increased the risk of SIDS and I would bet the baby got a terrible rash due to not being changed for a whole day. I once had to change a baby that got a terrible rash due to being left in a soiled diaper for several hours, and I could not properly wipe him because he would start bleeding. I can’t imagine how bad it was after a whole day

[Werevampiwolf]

I'm autistic. I was 9 or 10 years old when my cousin got pregnant, and I was utterly fascinated by the whole process and the new baby once he arrived. I was still able to understand not to do All That talked about in the story. I could understand being told "the baby is hungry, so you need to let him eat in peace, okay? You don't like people staring at you when you're eating, do you?" (I mostly just sat there and stared at him when he was around because I found new babies to be so interesting). So I quickly learned that when my cousin was going to feed the baby, that was my cue to avert my eyes and go do something else for a while, like go infodump at my grandma about sharks, snakes, and bugs.
OP's mother in the story not even being willing to try and teach her son boundaries is so bad. It's literally endangering him. What if he walks up to a stranger who's breastfeeding and starts touching their chest, and they call the cops? Autistic people are killed by police far more often than our allistic counterparts, mostly because we find it hard to comply when there's strangers shouting at us. And it wouldn't be the kid's fault if he got shot because he was never taught way boundaries are; it would be the parents' (and also the cop that shot him)

[jeffersonclippership]

Everyone always says the most depressing thing about being an adult is having to work. For me, it was learning how many people hate their kids.

[MagnoliaPantherWoman]

Yeah, the first one... ⚠️ A child died like this, left at home alone, and the mother went to prison. A young woman survived this as a toddler, left alone in a hotel room with gas station snacks, and she is still impacted by the trauma of it today. It's horrific.

[alphabetiris]

That first one is so comically evil, what the hell? Yeah, they should totally call cps on that mother.

[LilChuunosuke]

As an autistic person, it infuriates me to no end when people use autism as a free pass for bad behaviors. As someone who was born with SIGNIFICANT social and communication delays, yes, I absolutely did things that were inappropriate sometimes because I did not understand what I was doing was harmful.
The correct response to an autistic person doing something harmful unintentionally is NOT to give them a free pass! Many autistic people resent their parents for doing this. You need to sit the child down and explain to them WHY these behaviors are wrong until they are able to understand. Once they understand, then you establish consequences for repeating the behavior. I've gotten upset with people multiple times in the past because they did not inform me I did something to upset them until resenment had built up because they knew I didn't mean it and were afraid of hurting my feelings. It makes me SO upset when people do that because it actively stunts my ability to grow and causes unnecessary damage to the relationship. Not holding a child accountable simply due to their autism only makes them struggle MORE!

[antisocialsinger]

the autistic son one is atrocious. That's not an autistic kid problem, that's a kid with no understanding of boundaries problem

[croChimerical]

The "let me borrow your daughter" one is so messed up. Like. he has NO care at ALL for how that would mess the daughter up. Being called a new name and babied by a lady you've never met, possibly forming a bond with these new parents, and then being dumped back with mom and never seeing them again?? "Hey my wife needs therapy so let me severely mess yours up to fix it." He doesnt even see the girl as his child, just a tool to be used.

[antisocialsinger]

Dude that tried to switch his neglected daughter with his dead daughter is disgusting

[teaandlace]

im so horrified of that baby left alone. It could have died in the heat. Or multiple other ways. You arent even supposed to leave them in the car seat for extended periods.

[elizabethdeal]

One example of entitlement ive encountered is one of my husband's sisters. Back when her oldest was a toddler, she would get so pissed when the rabbit we had at the time would box the kid. The kid was usually trying to pick him up or pulling his ears. You know, just being too rough on the poor little bunny. But for some reason, she seemed to think we needed to teach our rabbit to accept abuse because "shes a baby and doesnt know any better". This is how kids end up with dog bites, people.

[doclewis]

That one "absent" father who wanted to use the other child as "grief" therapy also apparently didn't even grieve his loss of the other child. He's a sociopath.

[BlazeNStar]

Autism is no excuse for horrible parenting. Simple as that. People with ASD are capable of understanding things that allistic people (non-autistic person) can when enough patience, flexible teaching styles, and willingness to teach happens. Like be a damn parent.

[alaz]

Even if he is autistic, it is still the parent’s responsibility to teach boundaries. Even IF the behavior is caused by autism, I also always say that it is a reason for the behavior, not an excuse. Meaning that it may be an explanation for why it is occurring, but not an excuse to be okay and it needs to be intervened upon.

[anyjen]

The first one... Yeah, that woman should never be allowed near that child ever again. She doesn't deserve the title of mother after abandoning her that way.

[Veronika-bnee]

I'm autistic. I work at Goodwill and I have contact with people all the time. I also have lanyard with fidget toys on my neck because I need them pretty often. I was doing some cleaning and from nowhere this kid stands so close to me that he almost is touching me and he tried reach for my fidget toys. Just like that from nowhere. I hate be touch by strangers so I backed up super quick and said very loud "don't touch me. I don't want be touch by someone I don't know ". Kid was maybe 10 years old and his grandma was like don't worry he just like hugging people.... I was like wtf teach your kid that is okey to do it...

[Aurora_is_my_pup]

Stuff like not giving boundaries to disabled people happened all the time at my middle school where so many women were sexually assulted and harassed because "oh thats how he makes friends and he has autism so you should be nice to him" it wasnt until I blew up about that they finally kept him away from women. But even then the principal was trying to gaslight and blackmail me to stop me from protecting myself and others.

[ChaosTheoriesLuxe]

These stories always remind me of the quote, "All children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children."

[JellieGHope]

My sister used to bring her kid to my work (a thrift store) and let him run around because I was there. More than once I had to chase after him as he escaped out the front door

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I feel physically sick thinking of the baby in the first story. The panic that baby must have felt...
And there's a little something called positional asphyxia, babies in car seats for long periods of time may be unable to breath and die. She's lucky her baby is alive