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Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

Its public transportation. Kids with special needs are part of the public. They have just as much of a right to be there as you do.

Not if they're a public disturbance, especially for an extended period of time (that goes for everyone - special needs or otherwise).

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Anonymous wrote:How do we know what actually happened? It was a 4 minute video, and account of just one man. I highly doubt that the child screamed for the entire 8 hours. The guy started filming before the plane took off, shows the lack of any empathy and sensitivity on his part.

^^ There's the denial already.

Multiple people were commenting on the video about how long that had been going on.

Where do you see these comments? I checked the original video on YouTube and there are no comments.

Not the PP, but the comments refer to the actual, spoken comments on the video by other passengers, saying how horrible their flight was because a kid screamed for 8 hours, etc. You have to listen to the video itself, toward the end.

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Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

Its public transportation. Kids with special needs are part of the public. They have just as much of a right to be there as you do.

And yet I still hope the video discourages it!

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Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

Its public transportation. Kids with special needs are part of the public. They have just as much of a right to be there as you do.

Not if they're a public disturbance, especially for an extended period of time (that goes for everyone - special needs or otherwise).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

Its public transportation. Kids with special needs are part of the public. They have just as much of a right to be there as you do.

They may have the right to be there, but not the right to act out to that degree that is so disturbing to others---unless you think anyone has the right to act in whatever way that occurs, regardless of how much they might disturb you (for example--a person with severe mental illness, an elderly person with dementia, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

Its public transportation. Kids with special needs are part of the public. They have just as much of a right to be there as you do.

Not if they're a public disturbance, especially for an extended period of time (that goes for everyone - special needs or otherwise).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

Its public transportation. Kids with special needs are part of the public. They have just as much of a right to be there as you do.

Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

Anonymous wrote:it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Yes, and the other was aware of this BEFORE boarding the plane. Hopefully the result of the video is that she won’t fly with him again, and others will think twice before doing so. I’m glad the video was shared.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch the video. He starts screaming even before they leave the gate. It's awful--I think I would have lost my mind. Even if the kid did have a developmental delay or SN (and it's not clear that he did), nobody was doing anything to redirect, distract, etc.

Yes, it is clear. The mom was desperately trying to get the wifi on their iPad to work b/c she had planned to distract him. You can hear the stewardess tell her that the wifi wasn't functioning yet.

So, the mother knew she had a special needs child, and the only thing that would distract him was at the iPad, and she didn't have anything on that iPad that didn't require wifi? No apps, no games, no video?

Who knows? Maybe there is only one thing that will distract the kid, and that thing needs Wifi? No one knows the actual facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch the video. He starts screaming even before they leave the gate. It's awful--I think I would have lost my mind. Even if the kid did have a developmental delay or SN (and it's not clear that he did), nobody was doing anything to redirect, distract, etc.

Yes, it is clear. The mom was desperately trying to get the wifi on their iPad to work b/c she had planned to distract him. You can hear the stewardess tell her that the wifi wasn't functioning yet.

So, the mother knew she had a special needs child, and the only thing that would distract him was at the iPad, and she didn't have anything on that iPad that didn't require wifi? No apps, no games, no video?

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Anonymous wrote:How do we know what actually happened? It was a 4 minute video, and account of just one man. I highly doubt that the child screamed for the entire 8 hours. The guy started filming before the plane took off, shows the lack of any empathy and sensitivity on his part.

^^ There's the denial already.

Multiple people were commenting on the video about how long that had been going on.

Where do you see these comments? I checked the original video on YouTube and there are no comments.

Anonymous wrote:How do we know what actually happened? It was a 4 minute video, and account of just one man. I highly doubt that the child screamed for the entire 8 hours. The guy started filming before the plane took off, shows the lack of any empathy and sensitivity on his part.

^^ There's the denial already.

Multiple people were commenting on the video about how long that had been going on.

it was pretty obvious that the child was special needs. he didn't seem to have any words.

Meh...8 hours of screaming and nonsense...sounds like a typical day at work