After having read the ABC article, I’m more with the Mom. She told them when getting on the plane about an unexpected issue, the flight attendant agreed to heat up a sandwich, then didn’t. Just freaking go to the microwave and heat up the sandwich and this issue never happens.
Howzabout tell your little hellion, “NO, The world won’t always adjust to make you happy. You better learn that soon or you’ll get your happy little ass kicked by someone when you pull this on the wrong person.”
It coulda been a teachable moment. That concept that nobody else cares about making the world simply perfect for them. If the “autist” really, seriously, literally cannot stop from scratching people when they cannot have a hot meal, the person should be institutionalized.
I support the mom too. She was doing her best to stave off the blood sugar drop and knew a simple hot meal would work(and it did when it finally came). Reread the article and you will see that it was a male 1st class attendant that was working against her.
BTW the scratching the mom talked was about is what a frustrated autistic child will do to herself. Have we become so heartless that we stand back and judge and ridicule a mom having a difficult time with a disabled child?
Maybe so, but escalating the situation by claiming her daughter may get violent was not an appropriate way to respond.