Bully :(, sorry, long post

Glad to hear that Matt will be going back to his old school. Familiarity and consistency are so important to autistic children.

Samuel had his first taste of bullying. We were walking home after picking Vivian up from school. Vivian and Samuel had run ahead with kids they knew. Samuel ran into a group he didn't know.
I didn't see or hear what lead up to it, but a boy who was about 7 started bumping and pushing into Samuel. He must not have realized that I was behind him. The boy said that he was going to tell his dad that I yelled at him (I didn't, I told him to stop bumping into Samuel). I told him to go ahead, I live right here and this is my phone number if your dad would like to discuss it.
A few hours later I got a phone call from the dad. He told me that his son said that I yelled at him. After explaining what happened I could hear him asking his son if he had been pushing Samuel and could then hear a child in the background crying that he didn't mean to hurt or scare anyone. The dad promised it wouldn't happen again and that his son would be over this weekend to apologize to Samuel.
Poor Samuel was terrified. He has a hard time reading social cues and has never been pushed around by someone he doesn't know (pushed around by big sister is a different story). He went into what we call his other world. He ended up sleeping with us and didn't want to get on the school van the next morning. He kept telling me he was scared. At least he seems to be over it now.