bdoyle's Blog

I agree with the airline to turn the plane around when the autistic boy started throwing a fit. The airlines has a responsibility to make the flight comfortable for hundreds of paying customers besides this boy and his mother. It is very selfish of the mother to think that all of the other hundreds of paying customers on that plane should suffer through listening to a 2 year old having a fit. She needs to 1) not take him on planes (if he is unable to behave in a social environment ) or 2) drive him in a car where she can let him have fits or 3) teach him to behave socially around other people. The other people who bought airline tickets never agreed to have to listen to a child having a fit when they bought their ticket. They expect parents to not bring a child on a plane who can not behave. It is not the responsibility of the plane staff to control her child. (Obviously she was not in control of the child if he was having a fit in the walkway). This mother needs to accept the responsibility of being a parent, if she is unable to control her child then she needs to get off the plane with her child. - I am a mother of 3 children.