Yeah, I am a bit offended by that generalisation of Aspies kids missymoo. Jackson has aspergers and they generally are not violent and do not normally initiate that sort of behaviour, rather they tend to shy away from initiating most social behaviours.

Having said that all Apsies kids are different, but no child, Aspies or otherwise should be unsupervised to the point where they are continually bulling other children in a playground and I definately would've said something.

I had a similar situation not that long ago at a playground. I was sitting in the playground with my children playing at a shopping centre where there is an eating area just outside the playground. And one boy approx 2yo was being extremely violent with all the other kids, he was smacking, pushing, puching, yelling etc and the mother was nowhere to be seen. This kid ran over to Leo for no reason whatsoever and pushed him and then kicked him in the back when he was on the ground. I went up and told him "No! you do not kick, you be gentle!" and he stopped. When the mother finally showed up a few minutes later to collect her child I said "excuse me, is he your son?" she said he was and I said "Well, he has been bullying all of the children the whole time he has been in here, I have seen him push and punch other kids, and he kicked my child in the back" She just looked at me blankly and I said "perhaps if you were supervising him you could discourage this kind of behaviour, it is really not acceptable in a playground when other kids are being hurt" she said "Oh, OK" and walked off - what kind of a response is that???? Another mother there thanked me for saying something.