Ds 7 (ASD) loves swimming he can't actually swim so thus summer I booked him some 121 lessons with a swim school. He loves it and making good progress. The swim school doesn't have disabled changing rooms - and I can't take him in the boys so I take him to the girls and tbh there are lots of boys there too - maybe not as old as him but not far off either (ds is very tall looks older). He can dress and undress himself but I stay with him to prompt him to hurry- they do like to stop and have a daydream. Because we are in the girls changing room I supervise the shower and take him to a cubicle to get dressed. The issue is the showers, you can't quite see if one is in use, so my ds peeks behind the curtain and if it's being used then moves to the next one - I'm with him the whole time.
We came out of the changing rooms today - and this girl comes up to me with her dad following and says "excuse me your son keeps looking at me in the showers"
Well, a red mist descended I was so pissed off at the dad for not coming to me if she was upset but seriously fucked off at what was being implied - especially I was there the whole time and he wasn't looking - unless she's dressed as angry bird, donkey kong or bloody mario he wouldn't be looking at anyone.
I did tell the dad we were looking for a free shower and I was with him the whole time - he backed off when he saw how angry I was - I'd look over it if we were talking about teenagers or adults but these are kids!!!!!!!!!! So angry