no more, no less. a pediatrician looks at ALL parents as POTENTIAL abusers.

[kimbutgar]

255. Once my son fell off the climbing gym at school and broke his wrist. He is on the autism spectrum.

They called me and I came and picked him up and called the doctor and made an appointment to bring him in. Everyone I encountered asked me over and over how it happened. Which I told them it happened at school. My son is verbal and they asked him and he told them he fell off the climbing structure. I do not think it was extreme because all it takes is one child or woman or man who has been abused to not get asked the question and end up dead or in the hospital. I also was taught as a teacher in training that I was mandated to report any suspected abuse of a child. There was one child in my class a sweet boy who sometimes kept his jacket on on warm days and was withdrawn that was out of his usual nature. At the time I didn't think much of it but after I left my student teaching in that class I happened to run into the teacher and asked her how this boy was and told her how I always thought of him after the fact about his behavior. About a week later she called me and told me that she made him take his coat off and he had these horrible bruises on his arm that she reported it and he was in child protective services now because he confessed to getting beat up for getting grades below A-. This was an Asian child. I kick myself that I didn't realize this sooner and pointed it out to the teacher. There were so many challenging kids in the class he kind of kept himself low key and hidden. I always wondered what happened to him as he would be 17 now.