Is it wrong for an adult grown women that lives in the same neighborhood as you to purposely try to be spiteful and petty towards a child?! correct me if I'm wrong.

So my son has really bad anxiety.. long story short he was diagnosed with selective mutism by a physiatrists.. anyway he got into it with a neighbor across the street from me because her daughter is annoying to him.. so my son ended up going to her door and she storms out yelling at him and asking him what is his problem.. by the time I got out my car to head towards him he pushed her and she grabbed him by his shirt and jacked him up and was like keep your son away from my house. Mind you we live in an apartment complex lol things got out of hand real quick.. of course she went and told the leasing office.. and she just suggest the kids stay away from eachother. ANYWAY my son has 3 kids that he was really tight with up until today. ( her kids and the other kids and my son was all playing together outside ) since that last incident happened my son been staying to himself.. she invited my son friends inside her house and literally excluded him out in front of everybody my son got upset and started crying.. mind you she never invited them in her apartment until she seen that's what i was doing.. and her kids aren't even " close " with those other kids.. i felt so bad for my son because his feelings was hurt.. i feel like she was being spiteful as hell and was trying to purposely trigger him. Imagaine being left out like that in front of everybody.. i understand her and my son had that situation but he is literally a child 8 years old.

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Not sure what having selective mutism has to do with this tbh. It seems like he was annoyed with the neighbor girl and went to her house to…. Yell at her? Fight her? Like why did he go over there?

The lady should never put her hands on a child. But I would not allow someone who pushed me to come to my house either.

he’s 8. he’s a child! he’s just now starting to figure out how to control his emotions, impulse control, his brain is literally not developed enough to be held accountable for his actions. she shouldn’t have grabbed him like that, if she hadn’t grabbed him like that and had remained calm like an adult i would’ve expected him to apologize to her and then move on but since she reacted like a child i would be expecting her to apologize for sure and i wouldn’t even be comfortable with him going over there anyway.

Why did even he go over there? Did he go over there to confront her? So what did you do when your son pushed a grown woman? Did you apologize to her? Did you tell him that he shouldn't push people?

I have lots of questions, but a child that put their hands on me wouldn't be allowed in my house either.

So your son showed up at this lady's door to be confrontational and then put his HANDS on her? And she's the issue?

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