Oh Fank You! You Fixed My Valentines Day.

His mother should have told him the poster was inappropriate, instead, he's now being coddled by idiots.

R1 Seeing as how the mother contacted national media, I doubt she would be in any position to lecture him on what is and isn’t appropriate.

People get rejected every day. Get over it. No need to alert everyone. Pussification.

“Artistic” “No, Rose, autistic!” “OH, DEAR!”

Now the girl will have to deal with others thinking she's a bully or some such nonsense. Meanwhile, the incel in the making hasn't learned a thing.

Were any of the Valentine's Day cards brokened?

“You’ve learned nothing?” Lol

Ahhhh that's the sweetest story.

This could be any DLer.

When I was only a little older than this kid, as an Aspie girl, I got a single rose stem from a popular pretty artistic boy in my year group on whom I had an intense but silent and firmly private & passive crush (who was also bullying me)...as a joke.

My entire homeroom mocked me for it. I was ridiculed publicly by half my school. And I never hit back, never defended myself, never reacted, and never breathed a word about it to my parents, siblings, teachers, or anyone outside of school--decades later, DL is the only place I've told this story. My so-called friends (who I found out weren't, later) never brought it up, either, not even to console me the next day. It just happened, and everyone moved on, and I had to live with that memory, forever.

Most other kids & teens have cute little memories of young love, puppy love, cute and earnest if slightly embarrassing and mawkish and stupid/funny little expressions of feelings for each other. They can look back and smile at those reciprocal crushes and relationships. And even the gay kids who didn't come out until highschool or College have at least one or two happy stories about going out or making out with someone they liked. I just have that one single painful memory, nothing else. There were no butterflies in my young life. Or even in my current adult life, actually--the few dates I've had have been awful, and I've never had a kiss or had sex.

No means no!!!!

Breaking: Footage of the incident found!

The article does say that the mother said if she had known he had been planning to do this, she would have told him to do it in private. So, she's somewhat aware. I, too, however, think that the girl who said 'no' is going to be the one who ends up getting shit on for the rest of high school. Pack of girls, especially cheerleader types, seem to like to adopt innocuous boy outsiders as little pets. He's their newest pet. They'll then turn around and meangirl the other girl to death. Maybe this will help to keep him from becoming the angry incel he was probably headed toward becoming.

[quote]“You guys. My oldest baby is 14, he has Autism, is very shy and socially awkward,”

Are we capitalizing autism now like we're supposed to capitalize black for no discernible reason?

Bitch stole my glasses.

I'm sorry, but this kid is a rapist in the making, being enabled by his entitled Frau mother.

Is there a picture of his ASPIE valentines card to the girl. How bad was it? I need to know before I trash the girl. It might be really bad.

Sounds like something Nancy Lanza would have done for little Adam, back in grade school.

R10 Hi Brienne of Tarth, fancy meeting you here.

R18 eh, I didn't catch ASOIAF or GOT, I don't really get the reference

Good! Hopefully he will understand that rejection is a part of life, and quickly move on to the next, while also appreciating the people who responded to him, in his hour of need.

Rejection is far more pervasive than acceptance, regardless of your neuro-typology.

Future Incel serial killer

R5 yes sorta of Now the Incel knows how to make the female the villain

R16, what’s an aspie ? You all autistic now you ableist self hating prick

Teenage girl castigated and shamed over something a boy did to her. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Mothers who coddle their little princelings and encourage society to follow suit are the worst kind of handmaidens to the Patriarchy. They should be the first on the chopping block, along with the Tradwives and the Repug Pickmeishas.

He’s ugly and creepy

The girl is already being shit on, R13. Notes from the other students say that she shouldn't said, "yes," the mother took to Facebook (of course) AND the media about this story. Fuck her and her budding incel son.

He’s a kid, R25.

GMAFB. He’s experiencing what many of us have experienced through out our lives, now & again.

No reason to shit on the young lad.

What can we do to protect and defend this girl ?

[quote]With bullying on the rise, one mom is sharing a heartwarming story involving her neurodivergent teenager

What a weaselly lead. There was no bullying!

[quote]“They asked him to be their Valentine and he said yes,” Starr wrote on Facebook. “Then the entire cafeteria cheered so loud that they disrupted nearby classes and everyone got in trouble and had to have a silent lunch period after that.”

This is obviously false, another "and then everybody cheered" story.

Everybody’s overreacting here. It’s a sweet story.

Don’t ruin it.

R29 isn't that literally the ending of 'Lucas' with Corey Haim?

How is "neurodivergent" considered a step forward in respectful lexis? It sounds like a word a Nazi doctor would use.

R30 It isn’t sweet. It is pathetic. It’s wrong that the young woman was thrown under the bus for saying no, it is wrong that the mother would share such an embarrassing moment in her sons life with national media, and it is rude of her to try and get clout off of the nice actions of the girls.

[quote]Autistic boy write cringe inducing poster for girl on Valentine Day.

Him write poster?

Instead of going to Facebook, If mom would’ve just given him a salty snack and put an extra pillow in his crate, all of this could have been avoided.

And DL says that the MAGATS are the hateful ones.

Remember when Kathie Lee Gifford sadistically humiliated an autistic boy on national TV? This kid should sue his bitch mom when he turns 18. I would.

R36 You type frau.

[quote]What can we do to protect and defend this girl ?

Give her a whistle on a string that she can blow when he's invading her personal space?

He's just lucky those girls didn't show him Sissy's Pizza Bread.

R10 I’m sorry u went thru that

I haven’t had much luck either

I hope we both find love someday

Netflix will turn this story into a movie. Let's cast! I want ¡Froy! to play the Aspie hero.

[quote][R36] You type frau.

And you type asshole.

God, the clip at r37 has it ALL, from the mom's frau Karen wig to Kathie Lee introducing a song that's pure embarrassing treacle.

Kathie Lee: How did you like that song?

Autistic Kid: It was a little too sad.

This compilation of Howard Stern clips has one when he is tearing into Kathy over that segment and how horrible it is for the autistic boy. It is the first segment in the video so no need to jump around.

[quote]What can we do to protect and defend this girl?

Gosh, I don't know... Maybe we could try by invoking upon a cabal of chronically underfucked homosexuals who'll vomit forth ableist slurs at a disabled 14-year-old from the anonymity of their mother's basements? Yeah, that should work.

[R38] You type frau

I'm not R36, but whoever they are, I'd hazard they're a human who can empathise with the other, with the strange, with the alien. But as is invariably the case with these types of threads, there's a familiar cast of Mean Gurls, who seem, on some fundamental level, incapable of that, and who doubtless turned a blind eye to the bullying of these kids in their school days or, I suspect, took an active role. Fuckers. Cunts.

There are no winners in this scenario. As others have mentioned, the girl, by no fault of her own, will be villainised by the little Cornflake Girls, staking out their precarious places at the top of the social hierarchy. And the boy? You'll have to look ahead in a few years. The show of support is likely just that: a show, and they'll cast him aside for another object of fascination and/or pity. And chances are if he's this gauche at 14, he has been or will be on the receiving end of reindeer games and abuse that I bet most of you (except my homegirl, R10) couldn't imagine. So rest assured, it all balances out in the end.

*invoking a cabal

R45 Howard Stern has a hell of a nerve criticising others for going after the developmentally disabled. He built his career and his legacy on publicly humiliating such people, and inspired a generation to do the same.

R48 To be fair, I don’t think Stern minds that she was going after the disabled. He didn’t like that she was doing so while pretending to be so sweet and helping him.

[quote]except my homegirl

Ugh.

R50 would that it were just a copout we could stop abusing any day we liked.

The several doctors, psychs, therapists & teachers I've had throughout my 30 years of life who all concur I have a pretty permanent issue would probably have preferred that, too.

R51 Most ASD Pride people don’t even have autism. They just self diagnose as an excuse to watch anime and lack social skills.

R52 yeah I know, and it's unbelievably frustrating for those who do have it clinically and have been diagnosed, such as myself.

With every new person that self-dxs and starts showing out online, making it their new identity--and those numbers are growing sharply and suddenly, for some reason--more societal goodwill is exhausted against us, fewer people care to listen or sympathise, available resources become more stretched, social spaces crowd out those most in need, sharks circle and move in to take advantage of the vulnerable pool of the genuinely afflicted, and ultimately the dx is rendered meaningless.

R41 thank you so much, you're sweet to take time to say that. I hope the same, and double for you xxxx

R53 The worst part is they take even the most common human behaviors and say they are signs of autism. No, listening to a song you like on repeat, is not a sign of autism. It makes you human.

R55 lol right? I mean they didn't make a repeat button on every music playing device for no f****** reason.