• kajko@feddit.nu
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    7 months ago

    When someone asks if they can pet our dog, we always say it’s up to her. Sure she cannot speak, but always has little body language and many times she’s just not interested or looks uncomfortable or impatient to keep walking.

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    7 months ago

    If I had been in your shoes, it would have taken me a solid ten minutes to figure why the kid’s mom was laughing

    • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubOP
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      7 months ago

      Ummm… I don’t think the text reads that the kids mom was laughing… or did I miss something 🤔.

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        7 months ago

        I was assuming that that was how the mom would react, since when I’ve done things like this as a kid my mom would burst out laughing, and when I’ve met other little cuties who did stuff like that their moms would laugh.

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          7 months ago

          Oh… well, I might giggle a bit, if it was my kid (since “society’s norm” is not that), but it would actually get me thinking, my kid is probably right.

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      7 months ago

      I think I had a hard time as a kid/teen with saying thanks and then sometime in my late teens/early 20s, after I wasn’t getting reminded all the time, it was like some switch was flipped.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t think she does it when she’s selfish, she just never thinks about it. Part of her social anxiety, probably. I don’t mind reminding her, but it does irritate me a bit even though I know it’s probably not something she’s able to help right now. Parenting is a minefield of emotions.

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          7 months ago

          For me it wasn’t that I was selfish or anything. I just didn’t think about it and therefore didn’t remember. She will probably have a light switch moment sometime in the future. We all grow and evolve afterall. Even autistics.

          Edit: was => wasn’t