Pushy neighbor

naturist wrote:
I am no physician, nor any sort of expert on human behavior, but my guess is that the kid the OP talks about is an Asperger syndrome kid. Not dangerous, you understand, but his inability to recognize faces or to pick up on subtle hints and somewhat obsessive, in this case with regard to helping, and inability to perceive boundaries suggests this to me.

Such a kid can be annoying, and somewhat alarming, without meaning to be or having nefarious intentions. Because an Asperger kid cannot process subtle social clues, there is no use in getting bent out of shape yourself with their behavior; they truly can't tell that they are annoying you. He's still a human being, of course, and deserving kind consideration, but admittedly somewhat difficult to deal with, especially if you don't recognize what is going on.

X10 on this. There is a kid like this in my neighborhood. Pulls up on his bike and wants to help with something or wants to know where my wife is, or takes a drink from my soda can. Always has a better way of doing whatever it is I'm doing at the moment. I don't know what his condition is, but it was obvious to my open mind that there was some kind of issue going on the first time he pulled up. Since the OP recognized this a abnormal behaivor, it's too bad his hasty conclusion was that he was casing the camp site for something to steal or just causing trouble. It's also too bad that other posters have to chime in with ignorant quotes about parenting and only children, or that maybe he should be loose in society. All those negative thoughts were for nothing as he never bothered you again. Hopefully it was a learning experience.