It was my birthday, and I went out for a meal at my favourite restaurant with my girlfriend and my family.
For context, I’m autistic, and the room was loud. The acoustics weren’t great, and there was a big family next to us who’d clearly had a few drinks and were talking quite loudly. It was starting to feel a bit overwhelming.
The waitress actually offered us the option to move to a quieter table (we hadn’t even asked), so we said yes.
As we were moving, I heard who I assume was the mum from that table sarcastically say “bye” to us. I just ignored it and carried on.
Then, halfway through the meal, as they were leaving, she came over to our table and started going off at us. I was honestly just confused at first because it came out of nowhere. She called us rude and disrespectful for moving tables, and then said to my mum something like, “I didn’t raise my daughters to look like that, and if I did, I’d be ashamed.”
The waitress came over afterwards and asked what had happened, she looked pretty embarrassed about the whole thing.
I genuinely didn’t think we’d done anything wrong, we just moved because it was loud and the staff suggested it. Perhaps I'm overthinking this, though now I’m wondering if it somehow came across badly.
AITAH for moving tables, or was that reaction completely out of line?