Posted on 08/13/2019 12:53:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Glen Burnie, Md. (WJLA) - A family says they are left heartbroken and saddened after they were asked to leave an Outback Steakhouse restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland on Saturday night because of their son who has neurological challenges.
Amanda Braun's son, Killian, was born with a neurological disorder that affects his speech called Childhood Apraxia of Speech. The disorder affects Killian in many ways especially communication and behavior.
Sometimes when he speaks, his words are unclear.
However, Amanda says she's never had problems before the incident at Outback occurred and that Killian was not acting out of the ordinary.
"Our son stayed with us in our booth. There weren’t many people around us as we were seated in the very back of the restaurant to accommodate our party size" said Amanda. She admits there was some noise but that it wasn't constant.
She says moments after dinner arrived, they were approached by a manager and ultimately asked to leave.
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....further the mother wouldn't accept Outbacks apology and says she doesn't know what to do. Well if she doesn't know how to handle this situation then she needs to press pause and start all over again in another restaurant.
Apples and oranges. Eating with his feet vs. being restrained and force-fed. Trying his best to do for himself vs. having “NO idea where he was”.
Well at least the Ptomaine au Gratin will keep you out of restaurants for a few days letting the other patrons get what they paid for and not screwing the restaurateur with bad PR or loss of other patrons.
Especially women who name their offspring after wines, beers, or cocktails. Killian, Margaux, Daquiri, or whatever the hell they were drinking when conception occurred.
Never mind. I decided to cook at home. I want to live to fight another day...with humblegunner.
Who goes to Outback for a quiet meal? It’s always been loud when I go.
Apparently so has compassion....for some.
Call it a hunch........
I need to go to that Outback after eating a whole bag of Ford Hook Lima Beans, That’ll show ‘em.
Please, you judgmental people who don’t have a child with special needs
People with normal kids have opinions too.
At the beginning, when the first one with special needs was little
You should have controlled the kid or kept him home.
I had another child with special needs.
I’m seeing a trend.
you have never attempted to live a normal family life with kids with special needs.
Most people have normal kids.
You must be miserable, if your behavior in regular society is anything like your crass behavior here on FR. You should be ashamed of yourself, but I’m guessing that that emotion is not in your repertoire.
I notice that you didn’t contradict me.
Seriously, do it. Many of these waitstaffers are likely doing it on purpose without thinking too hard on it. They may see seniors as light tippers, so they routinely save the best seats for parties they see as more likely to tip heavily after a pleasant experience away from the aforementioned nuisances and distractions. You and your wife don't have to silently suffer this kind of casual discrimination. Be polite, but be firm! ^_^
My wife and I, being senior citizens and no children at home, eat out fairly regularly.
But when we do, it seems the hostesses always seat us in teh ‘family sections’ with all the screaming children or if not here, they seat us next to the kitchen doors with constant going out and coming in.
OK I lol’ed at that one
No shirt
No feet
No service?
Thank you!
I’d have to hear a recording before I’d just issue a blank check here. Many parents simply don’t “hear” their own kids, much less train them or discipline them. Even special kids can be trained; if they are untrainable, they probably don’t belong in a sit-down restaurant.
These days people proudly let their kids disrupt with noise in restaurants, in church, in waiting rooms, on airplanes, in trains, in buses, in stores... and think it’s adorable. Many parents seem oblivious, and others are self-righteously indignant, no matter how loud or sustained their kid’s vocalizations are.
There’s this one place we go that every time we go we seem to get the same seats.
I told the hostess that we should have our name engraved on the table...................
‘I once paid big bucks to see a Shakespeare play. I missed most of the dialogue due to the outbursts of a poor child with Tourette’s.’
interesting... same think kind of happened to me; went to see MacBeth, and I couldn’t hear a thing because of all the sound and fury...
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