Hello. Someone I know has moderate to severe high-functioning autism and keeps petting our dog (dad's gf's kid is whom I am talking about) badly like shaking her legs, spreading her paws away from each other, almost choking the dog in a hug.

Anyways, my dad and his girlfriend keep telling him not to pet or touch the dog like that, but he keeps doing it. I also probably had ASD (Aspergers) so I know sometimes you don't understand certain things well (he basically has little to none social concept) so he keeps doing this to express his love to the dog, and doesn't understand he is hurting the dog.

What is the best way to communicate to him that doing those types of actions aren't socially acceptable and hurt the dog? He has done this enough that we think the dog will bite him. Any thoughts? Thanks for the response [emoji4] .

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