Let me start by saying at the time my son was 11 years old. He has autism and has improved greatly over the years. We've been taking into
Disneyland/Disney World since he was six. Some of the things he's done, some of the meltdowns, some of the behaviors, have been just unbelievably mortifying and embarrassing over the years. Usually we will just apologize and say he had autism, and people are usually forgiving and understanding.
In October we were on the monorail
MNSSHP. There was a woman who was dressed up and I had no idea what she was supposed to be, but she had all these little jewels stuck on her face. She practically knocked me and my son over to get on the monorail before us and get a seat. I made my son sit and squeezed next to him. he could not help but stare at her face. He was fascinated with little jewels and finally his autism got the best of him and he reached out and barely touched one of the jewels on her face. I saw it happen out if the corner if my eye but DH was telling me something and it didn't process or I would have said something to him and apologized to her.
She got seriously bent out of shape, and started huffing and puffing, fidgeting in her seat until I turned to see what was going on, and when she made eye contact with me she told me in a loud reprimanding tone " you need to control your child."
Of all the things my son has done over the years, him reaching out barely touching the plastic jewel glued to somebody's face was so minor, my husband and I cracked up laughing. Never before has someone told us we need to control our child. This only angered that lady even more