The neighbor woman called my daughter names
There is only one piece of advice I can offer. If I were you I would call the police. I don't know which country you are in, but I damn well know that hurling abuse at you is illegal in Britain. The fact that your daughter has autism is not relevant, she was abusing you. I have had problems with neighbours too and so I know what you are going through (except in my case I am the one with autism...)
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If I file a report for verbal harassment, don't they notify the person? Or can I just have the police "take a note" of it?
edit: the state in which I live says the harassment has to occur three separate times to qualify. I do not yet have an official dx, my daughter has the pending dx on paper but they haven't given it to her yet. They are waiting til the upcoming IEP. So I don't think we could go for disability harassment.
Gah. I hate red tape crap. I would just like a record of it happening. So that if it is needed, people know that this woman has been giving us a hard time.
Last edited by Dragonfly_Dreams on 12 Oct 2008, 11:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
Ya, you're probably right.
Seems she was infected with the rage virus. I hope you have built up an immunity to it. This may be the only way to quarantine it. I imagine you are aware that emotions can be transient as are virii and other infections.
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What a very sad experience. I am sorry for you and your daughter to have to put up with such abuses from a "neighbor".
Yes, file a grievance of the most extreme you're allowed.
Do not, under any circumstances allow your daughter to play with the children in question ever again. It would simply be inviting disaster.
Inform CPS of this persons' behavior as it might also infect her own home and her children.
Put up with no crap. EVER!
I'm curious, have you ever figured out who she was and what her role in respect to those children is? That may have a bearing on why she acted as she did. If she is being negligent in doing the job she is being paid for, for example, she will want to pass the blame onto everyone and anyone else she can.
I would keep a written record of the all incidents between the family and yours, best you can describe what happened, including going back to the situations over the summer. In case you ever need it.
Beyond that, I think you've already taken the most reasonable steps.
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Mom to an amazing young adult AS son, plus an also amazing non-AS daughter. Most likely part of the "Broader Autism Phenotype" (some traits).
I would keep a written record of the all incidents between the family and yours, best you can describe what happened, including going back to the situations over the summer. In case you ever need it.
Beyond that, I think you've already taken the most reasonable steps.
She is the aunt, and the babysitter. The mother was working she said. I've never met the mother in the 8 months I've lived here.
oh my god everykid where I live is like that towards me. Except I was the strong and tall one, and the smartest. Actully I was sick one day and some kids came to my house and throwed eggs at my window. even at school they picked on me everywhere but the play ground was the worse. For example I was eatting lunch (it happen when i was in the first grade) and I took out a cookie that me and my mom made the night before, okey so I took it out and was eatting it well they took it out of my hands and called me fat (and some other words) and then eat it in front of me so I did not let that brother me. When it was time for recess I went to play on the swings they started to beat me up and some fifth graders (but the fifth graders had to go in early) so I lost controlled and all hell broke loose and i was punching and kicking so hard that I broke some one elas leg. So then I got transfer to another school for a year then went back the next year. But I think that because everyone is so uneducated about AS and autsim that they make fun of us and others. But I made friends from another junior high school that have AS or another form of it.
I am sorry you were treated that way. I was picked on a lot as a child and never had any friends. Literally. I really hope that my daughter has a better childhood.
Yesterday my 5 year old Aspie daughter came in crying because she got in a fight with a 7 year old girl in the neighborhood. The two of them are always fighting because the other girl acts very mean spirited which is typical for kids around here, and my daughter gets upset and usually ends up pulling hair, hitting, etc. Or there are misunderstanding with words, or my daughter is left out or made fun of. Yesterday I fixed the issue and sent the girls back out to play nicely.
A few minutes later a skinny girl, younger than me knocks on my door and starts telling me that my daughter spit on the other girl. I doubt this because she was JUST inside the house. And later upon asking many times, my daughter maintains that she did not spit or do anything since I talked to her. But anyway, I asked if she was the girls mother. She got a pissed off look and started saying, "No I'm not. Whats it your business? you have an attitude. you should talk with people without an attitude its not nessasary." I tried to explain that I didn't know who she was, and she starts yelling that we've met before. I say okay, I just wasn't sure. She tells me more about the spitting. (and inside I'm thinking... do you know how many things she's done to my daughter and I haven't gone door knocking to tattle? geesh.) I tell her that I know the girls fight quite a lot and she interrupts me to tell me that she can't beat the kids or lock them up but she damn sure punishes them when she sees them do something! And my daughter has no right to spit blah blah blah She's yelling at me telling me this. Then she says I have an attitude again. Finally I say, "Its MY porch! If I want to have an attitude I will."
I can't understand why she's yelling. I have no clue why SHE has this attitude. Of all the things those kids have done to my daughter... They're the kids that taught my daughter how to spit on people!
My daughter is standing behind me btw, and the kids with her are standing next to this women.. all of them hands on their hips. She says, "You can keep your F*((#&@^ Autistic F*#&@^ Freak away from my kids! F*#&^ Ausistic A$$hole!" and then she called me a bunch of nasty names. I just stood there. I think I was smiling, I don't know. I said she wasn't acting very mature, and that those kids were not perfect either. And would she like the two steak knives I took away from their girl? (Yes, she was running around with steak knives waving them at people. I took them from her over the summer.) The woman screams at me, "No you keep them. And while you're at it why don't you slice your F&#^ing throat with them too."
... she left my porch screaming about autistics and using language that was pretty colorful. She said all my kids were freaks because "Just look at YOU"...
My daughter was crying afterwards saying, "I want to move" over and over again. And asked me, "Why does she hate me when she doesn't know me yet?" And I don't have an answer.
I told my daughter to stay away from those kids and the woman, but I doubt she will. She just doesn't have that long term anger thing. Or remember WHY we're staying away. And I feel badly because as much as those kids are jerks sometimes, they're kids. Its not their fault they act that way.
Later on I figured that maybe the woman thought I was being insulting by asking if she was the mother. Being dismissive or challanging, since she remembered meeting me. But I didn't remember then. It was an honest question. I wanted to know who I was speaking to.
This neighborhood is very close. This is going to cause issues. Those type of drama people call the police and DHS and all other types of things I stay away from. Ugh. It made me feel sick to my stomach. And I feel bad that she said those things with my daughter around. Thats just not right..
In the US, I believe it is a FELONY even for a juvenile to threaten another with knives! I think in the US you could EASILY get a restraining order.
And people will make fun of you for ANYTHING! The idea of autism just brings up ANOTHER thing. HECK, people laughed for YEARS at quail spelling potato with an e! They laughed at bush for saying nucular(A VERY popular variant! In fact, I knew a LOT of people that said it that way when I was younger, and many WERE adults!)! Yet you notice they DON'T make a big deal about obama saying there are 58 states in the US!
With ME, people made fun of my not being aggressive, not reacting surprised, being shy, not fighting, THEIR ideas about the sound THEY gave my name, etc.... BTW the name ITSELF wasn't bad! The meaning of the sound they associated with it was downright GOOD! They couldn't make fun of THAT! They had to use that to link to something ELSE so they could make fun of THAT!
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