Had the girl called him a name because she was just being a bully herself then yes, she would've been dead wrong. But after he harassed her 4 times he had whatever she said coming to him. You don't get to ignore my repeated requests to be left alone and expect me to be civil towards you and I'm an adult!

Women\girls should not be punished for not putting up with stalkers. Autism or any other disability is not an excuse for disrespecting others. Somebody needs to slap some send into the parents and teachers. When it gets to the point that you need to use a slur to make a point, society failed, period.

Just because the boy is autistic doesn't give him a shield to hide behind. He needs to learn that NO means NO.

This young girl is also a child.

Although autistic people don’t understand social queues, they understand words and no is a word everyone, including autistic kids learn early on. It’s not an excuse for bad behavior and I’m really tired of hearing people defend it when saying the word no is a complete and easily understood sentence

I don't think people understand that if someone asks me out several times and literally starts nagging I would call them a freak too as they rightfully deserve, autistic or not.

Anyone who keeps making advances after having been told 4 times to buzz off is a freak, autism or not.

One important thing that everyone is skipping: She's 12. Can we also please stop rushing children out of childhood with all of this crush nonsense? This girl isn't rejecting the boy because she doesn't like him because he's autistic or because she's interested in another boy; she's rejecting him because she doesn't feel ready for romantic relationship. The mother of the boy should not be encouraging him to hit on ANYBODY at this age. His friendship signals are weak, so why is he encouraged to develop romantic attachments? Don't rush social development stages. Buy him the goofy-make-a-friend Valentines and shut the door on the I-have-a-crush-on-you Valentines. I deal a lot with kids this age, and so often one kid will develop an interest in an opposite gender kid and they get all sorts of pressure to call it a crush and to romanticize it, when really they just to be BFFs.

"Lady, teach your son that no means no. Why haven't you taught him to respect females?" That would have been my response to that woman. And with her attitude, no wonder her son isn't used to hearing the word 'no'. I f*cking hate entitled parents. They should not be allowed to reproduce.

The Autism is beside the point. Since he's in class with the rest of the kids I suspect he's high functioning enough to comprehend what he's being told. I witness this time and time again. I understand parenting kids with Autism is hard, but it's still necessary and parent's duty to ensure they're teaching their kids boundaries and what's expected of them in society. It's not an excuse to treat them special just because of their disabilities. Rejections don't feel good. That's going to happen in life. The girl is NTA. What I don't understand is why this mom feels the need to go into such detail about how popular and pretty her daughter is, and boasting how desirable she is to the boys. Just felt icky reading that first part. The photo doesn't help either. Also, 12 is not "almost in High School. She's more almost getting into Junior High and 12 is a bit young for dating. Not sure why the mom is thinking that hard about it when she says her daughter is not into that right now.

First one is free. Second one is annoying, but okay. By the third strike, all bets are off. And if you go for four, you're on your own. Feel the pain. I say this especially for girls/women who already have to put up with an epic layer of nonsense as it is. Autism isn't an excuse here. If he's incapable of understanding no in this context, he shouldn't be around other kids until he can. That's way too dangerous of an excuse.

I’m a special education teacher. Over the years, the absolute worst kids that I have ever had were the ones that had parents who treated them like Gods Gift because they were autistic. Harassment, physical abuse, and what have you are still the same charges and inflict the same amount of damage to the victim when the perpetrator has autism. And I’ve worked with kids in a program where we were the last step before incarceration. And even then. I will still say that the worst kid I ever taught had a mom who expected everyone to allow him to do and say as he pleased. In order to keep myself and my other students safe from this kid, I had to make him fear me. And I hade to make it clear that he was not accepted because of his behavior. And even then. It was obvious that he did not care.

As an autistic person, using autism as an excuse to ignore no is stupid. Autistic people can understand boundaries, & codling them isn't going to help them.

People use autism as an excuse. Clearly he's high functioning probably not even really autistic, but he should accept no. And anyone punishing their children for not putting up with this should be smacked. The girl was protecting herself being loud and insulting him so he would leave her alone. Good girl. Keep being like that it might save your life... and momma get a restraining order if he approaches her again

Autism is no excuse for harassment. Plain and simple. And that’s not coming from a lack of compassion for those with autism.

I get both sides she had every right to reject him but calling him freak can come across as intolerant even tho she probably would have said the same to any boy who was harassing her . She totally dies not deserve punishment at all .