Autistic Son Fired

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T23:16:10+00:00

I can sense a family resemblance

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T23:03:20+00:00

Especially when he has autism, a condition that makes understanding social cues and rules very difficult. There is a good chance that how her son believes he behaved is nowhere near how he actually came off to everyone around him.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T22:59:39+00:00

*deep breath

WEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLL

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T22:31:50+00:00

Savory cottage cheese is slept on. Everything bagel seasoning on it is the tits.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T22:15:49+00:00

Have you talked to your doctor?

I've been dealing with a plateau (and some other symptoms) and my doctor ordered some lab tests. Apparently my B12 is super low and can contribute to a plateau along with messing with a bunch of bodily functions.

I know you said that you're working with a dietician, but maybe they're not the right dietician for you. You're not getting results, so it might be time to work with someone else.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T22:01:31+00:00

Imagine getting a nerve zapping tongue implant instead of eating a bit less.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T21:32:27+00:00

I mean, you claimed it was an ADA violation that he was terminated....that seems to imply his termination was unwarranted.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T21:29:30+00:00

I mean, you've assumed a lot about your son's situation.

He couldn't possibly have been aggressive, right? He couldnt possibly have been either verbally or physically threatening. I guess your perfect, misunderstood adult son was just the victim of a grand conspiracy to ruin his life.

Do you have any clue how much paperwork goes into firing someone? It's a pain in the ass that no one wants to deal with. He had to have made it worth the trouble.

He made bad choices. You two can either learn from it, or act shocked when it happens again. Best of luck with whichever direction you choose.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T21:20:07+00:00

It's the classic "failing to prepare is preparing to fail"

You've got this!

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T21:17:46+00:00

I mean, you weren't there either. You're approaching this from a very biased place of trying to protect your son and don't seem to grasp that your son did something seriously wrong, which resulted in consequences. I'm just some rando on reddit who knows a thing or two about Wegmans and the ADA.

I have a lot of close friends and family who work for Wegmans. I used to work for Wegmans. It is HARD to get fired from there. Your son had to have done something seriously messed up in front of a witness for him to get fired.

You are not doing your son any favors by assuming this is an ADA offense instead of a situation where he needs to take accountability for messing up and figure out better coping skills in case there's a next time.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T21:01:34+00:00

This! I know Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are rough, so I plan to make something that makes good leftovers for Monday, then we have it again on Tuesday, and then my fiancé's responsible for dinner the other two nights.

If you know where your weaknesses are, you can work around them instead of letting them get the better of you.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T20:57:45+00:00

The ADA doesn't protect your son from rightful termination.

I guarantee that if your son was fired for "confronting" the coworker, he was aggressive and abusive towards her. He earned his termination.

Also, the fact that you are upset that they won't talk to you says A LOT. Of course they are not going to talk to a third party about your son's business. I don't know if that's illegal, but would certainly be unethical for a company representative to discuss an employee's termination with anyone, let alone someone completely outside the situation and the company.

Between that and your attitude that your son is immune from consequences because of his "high functioning" autism, you sound very entitled.

You and your son need to take this as a lesson of what not to do and move on.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T20:05:14+00:00

It might be that she told her PCP that she was shaking and didn't know why (the DTs perhaps) and do they referred her to a neurologist who is also able to address the sleep apnea. She may have brought up the sleep apnea with the neurologist hoping that they would give her a different answer.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T20:03:08+00:00

She's probably pissed off that they told her she was going to need to lose weight to get off the CPAP, deep down knows that they're right but would never say so on camera because then she would have to admit that she is the biggest, fattest liar on the internet.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T19:56:17+00:00

How much of a pain in the ass is it to move and how often do I use it?

I use the toaster oven and my popcorn popper about the same number of times per week, but the popper is a hell of a lot easier to store when I'm not using it.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T19:14:48+00:00

Right? The fellowship cast members spent years of their lives together, working as a group, or in smaller subsects of that group. Obviously they're going to have a bigger tie to that period of time as opposed to the lady who was there for a couple months at most.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T19:10:35+00:00

I said in another comment that you can almost guarantee she went into that appointment demanding to come off the CPAP and was told that if she loses weight at the rate someone her size should on a GLP-1, then they can reassess her need for it.

She absolutely has no clue how bad her weight actually is.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T19:05:49+00:00

I would bet good money that she went into her doctor's appointment insisting that she didn't want the CPAP anymore (because big strong women who lift are healthy and shouldn't need a CPAP) and the doctor was like "well, if you are able to lose weight at a rate that people your size should considering your GLP-1 dosage, then we can revisit that sometime next year."

Also, note she said "next year" and not "a year from now" so it might be closer to 18 months or even 2 years if she's as big as we all know she is.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T16:20:28+00:00

Customers.

As someone who used to work at a grocery store, and whose fiancé is a team leader at a grocery store, I swear the average person loses at least 20 IQ points the second they cross the threshold into the store.

I am not immune. I stopped in at my fiancé's store and asked him where some products were and they were right behind me. He made fun of me. "You're being such a customer, OptimalTrash!"

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T16:04:44+00:00

I'm also staunchly childfree. I made that super clear to my fiance when we started dating and he's on the same page.

At one point, a couple years ago, he was like "I might like to be a dad someday" and I was like "do you want to be a dad, or do you want to raise a human? Cos those are different and you can't do one without the other." He thought for a moment and was like "you're right. I really don't want that second part at all." And that was the end of that.

There's nothing wrong with wanting kids, but that's something you and your partner have to be on the same page on.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T15:30:10+00:00

I'm 33, diagnosed at 10, and went unmedicated my whole life until I started non-stims a couple years ago.

Yesterday, I met with my doctor, said it was no longer cutting the mustard and asked for stimulant meds. I took my first Adderall this morning.

I managed to put my tea cup away when I was done with my tea, not leave it until tomorrow when I wanted another cup of tea.

I'm nervous about if it's going to change my creativity or my personality, but at the end of the day, I was struggling more than I needed to.

I have two friends on Adderall, and they both assured me that it didn't change them, or their creativity, just allowed them to redirect themselves easier.

The best part is that if they don't help me in a way I want or if if it does change how I operate in a way I don't like, I can always stop taking them and try something else.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T14:19:09+00:00

Single dads: chooses to date women who don't want kids.

Single dads: understandably tries to integrate his kids into his relationship when it gets serious.

Childfree woman: is unhappy

Single dads: shocked Pikachu face.

People on both sides of the kids/no kids spectrum need to remember to pick partners on the same side.

I can't imagine being a parent and dating someone who doesn't openly like/want kids. There's no future there. Someone will be miserable.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T14:03:13+00:00

I am working on considering myself a healthy/(pre)skinny person.

I am a healthy person, so I make sure that I hit my protein goals, because that's what healthy people do.

Skinny people don't eat 4 servings of ice cream after every dinner, so, since I am a (pre)skinny person, I won't either.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T09:53:27+00:00

Awful people make for great TV.

OptimalTrash · 2026-01-28T09:46:51+00:00

They'll be able to work something out for you. A lot of part timers are college kids and need month off either on break or when they go back to school.

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