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Mother left horrified after woman on bus snaps at her son with Down syndrome and tells him to 'shut up'

This was the first time that someone spoke rudely to her son, and although he didn't mind, the mother was hurt by it.
UPDATED MAR 9, 2019

Mother-of-four, Angie Theakston was left baffled at a passenger's reaction to her son's curiosity upon riding a bus. Angie's youngest son, Joey, who has Down syndrome was asked to shut up by a co-passenger when she was agitated by the child's excitement who clearly couldn't help but proclaim his joy loudly to his mother. The 43-year-old was left mortified when the passenger behaved rudely with her four-year-old son and took to social media to share the experience. 

The mum-of-four from Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, said her son had been excited to go on a bus ride after they’d been out for the day on Saturday.

She told The Sun, "It’s something that will stay with me forever. Thankfully he’s at that age where he’s not bothered which I’m thankful for. It hurt me more than it hurt him. He was really excited in the bus station, he just wanted to get on any bus. When it arrived and we were in the queue he couldn’t wait to get on. He was babbling away and he wasn’t being naughty but was just being a bit loud because of the excitement. This woman turned round, looked at him and said 'shut up'. She looked at me and said: ‘I’m not his mum so he might listen to me’. I felt really uncomfortable.”

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