Comments on: Momma’s Coffee Break

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:56:05 +0000

Also to what Michelle said, I find it really depressing that no one would give up there seat for you, some people really don’t have a sense of compassion but it does make the ones who are kind more worth it,

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:54:45 +0000

I don’t have a child but I have an opinion, so I’ll share it. I don’t think they should have turned the plane around, I understand it was a risk to the childs safety but if they had waited he would have eventually tired himself out and calmed down enough to be buckled up, and it’s true seat belts are supposed to be checked before hand. If that’s the best way they can handle minor disturbance there’s an issue, that must have only humiliated and ostracized his mother. If I had a kid who hadn’t been on a flight before maybe I would have made sure they were calm before hand, or already relaxed, not that I know anything about flying with kids let alone autistic kids but maybe if he was comfortable he wouldn’t have been so.. animate?

By: pickel

pickel — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:04:27 +0000

I wrote about it over at Discussing Autism because the little boy was autistic. The problem was two-fold…the boy was a mess and the staff did not know how to deal with him. Both parties are, in my opinion, at fault.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:20:36 +0000

I don’t know many details about this situation, but I think it’s one of those cases were everybody will have a better idea how to handle things next time.

The young mom might not have known how her son was going to react and the crew may never have dealt with a situation like that. It’s pretty unfortunate all the way around.

A few years ago, I was boarding a flight with my son, Max, who is severely disabled. He can’t sit up by himself and we could not have his wheelchair on the flight. They were wanting to place us – there were 5 of us – in seperate spots througout the cabin. I explained that I needed to sit with Max, that he needed me to hold him up. They asked for the passengers to give up a seat so that we could sit together and everyone just sat there looking at us. I explained that he would be leaning on whomever he sat beside. Finally, a lady – who was also disabled – gave up her seat for me.