A young lad, probably only about 8/9, was on the park today dressed in a full body huggy wuggy outfit. Mask, all in one body suit and a full length leather jacket. The outfit, particularly the mask, was scaring all the other children but his parents were there with him like it was a totally normal thing to do. I thought that perhaps he had SEND/ASD but my daughter is autistic and there's no way I'd let her watch or wear that stuff. It's really creepy, even to me. I'm utterly baffled that the lads parents thought it was fine to bring him to the park like that and scare the other children there. Some of the younger ones were actually in tears because of how scary the outfit was.
Posting here as I really didn't know how to handle this situation. I didn't say anything to his mum or dad about him scaring the other children but not sure if I should have said something or not. It was having a really negative effect on most of the children who were there. Aibu to think it's probably a bad idea to take your child to the park dressed like that and scare everyone?