Very cool clip. I hate to sound morbid though but it really struck me that a lot of the guests are now gone (John Candy, Madeline Kahn and a few others). I guess it has been 20 years, but wow.
My five year old son is autistic. He's completely non-verbal. In some situations he gets overwhelmed and frightened. We're very fortunate that he doesn't really have meltdowns like a lot of autistic kids do, but from time to time it's very difficult to have him in public and unfamiliar surroundings.
Autism is on the rise and we're discovering that many schools and even many doctors are ill-prepared to deal with it. I can't imagine that flight attendants are receiving any more training themselves.
With 1 out of 122 kids born every day being diagnosed with some form of autism, service industries are going to need to become informed and learn how to deal with these situations. That's just a fact of life.
Another fact of life is that the mother should have been better prepared for this. It would have been very easy for her to let her pediatrician know they were going to be flying soon and get some meds just for that occasion. Some parents don't like that, of course, but it's the reality of living with autism.
As for the “overdiagnosed, pop-psychology disorder” post....I really hope you're just confused and not typing with your head up your butt.
Autism is on the rise and we're discovering that many schools and even many doctors are ill-prepared to deal with it. I can't imagine that flight attendants are receiving any more training themselves.
With 1 out of 122 kids born every day being diagnosed with some form of autism, service industries are going to need to become informed and learn how to deal with these situations. That's just a fact of life.
Another fact of life is that the mother should have been better prepared for this. It would have been very easy for her to let her pediatrician know they were going to be flying soon and get some meds just for that occasion. Some parents don't like that, of course, but it's the reality of living with autism.
As for the “overdiagnosed, pop-psychology disorder” post....I really hope you're just confused and not typing with your head up your butt.