voss749 wrote:
Im gonna be the devils advocate here.
The guy is a dick who deserves singnificant jail time BUT should we be giving parents with autistic kids a free pass for
whatever bad behavior their children engage in??? Were not talking about fidgeting,
were talking about screaming. Its not like its an airplane, the father could have easily
taken the child outside to calm him down.
btw: Some aspies and autties are averse to loud noises such as...kids screaming.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/multimedia ... 09751a.pdf
Nowhere in either the news artcle in the OP nor in the police report you linked does it say the boy was screaming. It merely says he was "noisy".
There are so many threads about how horrible it is that NTs pounce on the things that autistic people do and label it "bad behaviour". So many threads where people have gotten flak or fired for all the things the NT world deems "bad behaviour". I'm not advocating a free pass for anyone to engage in actual attacking behaviour just because of autism. But "noisy"? It doesn't say anywhere that the child was screaming or that he was upset and in need of calming. He was just "noisy". A happy autistic child can vertainly be "noisy". Tolerance for difference starts in places like this restaurant, where a kid can be different without it being "bad behaviour". Lots of autistic kids have noisy stims. There is no reason to assume the kid was screaming and in need of calming just because this guy went ballistic over it.