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ZeroAfro t1_j6497y3 wrote

I feel for the parents but this is on them. They knew she sprayed it all over her room because she liked the smell but still enabled her do it. You could plaster warnings all over the bottle AND make people sigh a waiver before being able to buy it and this would still happen.

Common sense tells you not to do it or to let someone else do it and the bottle itself warns you.

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TheIncontrovert t1_j64fw7q wrote

Worse still the dad called for more labeling on products as "The awareness isn't there yet" There are fucktons of labeling on products. Do they need them to be more specific?

"Do not leave this product unattended with a child that uses it to soothe anxiety and is unlikely to understand the dangers of too much aerosol in a closed environment"

Don't think they could fit that on the tin. Even if they did, the next idiot parent would say "It's too small"

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ZeroAfro t1_j64g3tk wrote

My guess is they don't wanna blame themselves so they are looking to blame others and are convinced they wouldn't have made this mistake if only X was done.

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ironically-spiders t1_j6ev7wl wrote

Which is just stupid! Regardless, it is their fault for allowing her to have unsupervised access to it if she can't regulate the use appropriately, autistic or not. Instructions and warnings are there. If you choose to not read them, it's on you when something bad as warned would happen. It sucks, but that's the truth.

You let your kid, who even under the best neurotypical high intelligence cases is still a minor without a fully developed brain, do something they shouldn't, the guardian is at fault. If a toddler is left outside by a pool unsupervised, it's not the fault of the pool company when they fall in and drown; it's the parents'. If you let your kid have a bottle of tylenol and don't teach them the proper dosing and precautions and they accidentally OD, it's not Tylenol's fault, it's the parents'. It's unfortunate and it's unintentional, but it still falls on the parents when all the warnings and instructions are right there (or easily accessed). They could use this as a learning moment and spread that knowledge to more parents who are ignorant to it. Take a more active role, monitor your kids, teach them proper use of things, learn about the safety and safe use of things before handing them off to kids. Blaming the manufacturers doesn't solve anything.

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_Bob_A_Feet_ t1_j66wzmz wrote

If only more people paid attention to what’s in the things we buy and how a LOT of them can kill you if used improperly. It’s sad to see so many clueless folks off themselves in situations like this.

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