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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If its to the point that your chid will scratch others and you most likely cant hold her back, then dont go on a plane[/quote]

Or you could find some compassion. Honestly, this thread is sickening. Such an easy solution for this girl and you're raking her mom through the coals. For what? We have lost our humanity when people can't see that sometimes you think outside the box and be decent human beings. [/quote]

There is a difference from having compassion and violent behavior.  Mom cannot control the tantrums and child is to big to carry or reasonably restrain.  If child cannot control her behavior, then you don't travel.  We went through a rough period of two years where we could not take our child out to eat, travel - flight or hotel, and spent every day in services.  You deal.  Either it gets better or you don't travel out of safety for everyone.[/quote]

But the obvious point is that the child was actually controlled and there was no violent behavior. All this "what if" is just that. The kid was calm and never violent. And yet the plane still made an "emergency" landing.[/quote]

Because you can't make threats to a flight attendant about potential uncontrolled violence.  My father was once in a security line at an airport when the guy behind him made some sort of joke about a bomb and was whisked away by security. And that was pre-9/11![/quote]

The SN parents will never understand this. If it's less than carte blanche they won't even try[/quote]

It was a statement not a threat. It's like saying if I don't get some orange juice my child will have a diabetic episode. She said if I don't get some warm food my daughter will have an episode. No difference.[/quote]

They're similar, clearly, but I think the difference is that the diabetic episode is a medical emergency whereas the other is a violent emergency. Only the second presents the possibility of someone doing harm to another passenger, and maybe not able to be prevented from doing so. I don't think the issue was the food, exactly, it seems like the problem was that the mom framed the issue in terms of "if you don't do X, a violent outcome is likely". That seems like something an airline likely has to take pretty seriously.[/quote]

You have obviously never seen somebody in a full blown diabetic episode. It can be violent. A sandwich is no different than orange juice. The fact is people believe better parenting can fix autism. People want to ban kids from flight, ban autistic kids, ... It is no different than say... too bad, I guess people in wheel chairs can no longer fly. If is plain and simple discrimination. [/quote]

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