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AIBU?

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To not be forced into this performative nonsense?

129 replies

Onlyforcake · 29/08/2022 14:12

I am at the admittedly busy park. Two women were very loudly doing hide and seek near the bench I am sat on. I put in my ear plugs and did my best to block it out. I'm not great with people. My own child is quietly digging in the sand, I was fixing our kite.

Anyway one of these grown women does a whole theatrical shush to me and lies under the bench I am sat on. Giggling too. This is hugely uncomfortable for me. People across the park are staring which makes me nervous, she's fidgeting lwhich shakes the bench I'm also very conscious of her head really close to my backside. A woman who had sat at the far end of the bench just got up and walked away, which i probably should have. AIBU to think this was totally unnecessary on her part? She's gone now, to the other side of the park. I really hope my son gets bored soon so I can leave altogether.

OP posts:
DeclansAFeckingDream · 30/08/2022 11:32

The OP is autistic. This is a shitty comment to make to an autistic person.

Agreed @SudocremOnEverything it was really fucking nasty comment.

feistyoneyouare · 30/08/2022 11:36

Marvellousmadness · 30/08/2022 11:21

So this mum actually went out and PLAYED with her kid and you found her putting on a show/performing?

She might have thought you were a mum that couldn’t even be arsed to play with her own kid...

You could have just up and left. The world doesn't revolve around you being socially inept. And you dont have to be a social person either. But dont be putting another mum down just because she went all out playing with her kids

I prefer seeing that than seeing all these mums at playgrounds not even looking up from their phones
Ever.
..

What a nasty, tone-deaf post.

SirChenjins · 30/08/2022 11:59

That’s a shitty low comment even for you @Marvellousmadness

UWhatNow · 30/08/2022 12:37

@Marvellousmadness Are you that annoying person in the park? If so, just stop it.

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