Family Kicked Off Flight After Daughter With Autism Deemed 'Disruptive'

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76. Because some of the onus is on the parents

The mother herself doesn't (at least in anything I've read) take ANY responsibility whatsoever and is putting this entire thing on the flight attendants which unless I'm missing some major detail, from what I've read and seen is not entirely fair. She doesn't explain why they were in this situation. Maybe it was all the airlines fault. The fact that she seems to be leaving that bit out is what leaves me with some question marks.

Also, in the same article that she says that they didn't accommodate her need for hot food to prevent her from having behavioral issues, but then says that the kid was sitting calmly and quietly watching a movie. I understand that knowing her daughter, that it was a possibility she could have had an issue and caused a disruption so the mother handled that by....making an issue and causing a disruption.

As you pointed out, we don't have enough information. Only the word of this mother. I'll be curious if others who were on the flight come forward and corroborate her story or paint a different picture.

As the father of a special needs child who has done a fair bit of travelling with him, I'm not unfamiliar with this situation, which is also what makes me less than willing to accept the mothers account of this story at face value and not point out or ask for a lot of missing details before I go get my righteous indignation on.