It seems unpleasant, labelling a child in this way but it could have avoided a nasty situation I witnessed recently when shopping.
A young, very heavily pregnant woman, was shopping with her Mum. She was being followed around the store by a teenaged girl who would just stand still and stare at her.
The young mum became very embarrassed so the Mum turned round to the teenager and told her not to stare as it was very bad mannered.
Well, all hell broke loose, the teenager burst into tears and started screeching her head off. A very large lady raced around the aisle and started ranting that they were out of order and that her life was difficult enough without people being so unreasonable.
It turned out that the teenager was autistic - but how could they possibly have known that?
The poor Mum and her daughter were really upset and shaken by it all.
Whilst I can see both sides of the story my sympathies were with the Mum and her pregnant daughter. If the teenager had been wearing something to raise awareness of her disability the whole nasty situation could have been avoided.