My youngest son, who has recently been diagnosed with Asperger's
Syndrome, and I just got back from a two week vacation to visit my
mother. This was full of firsts for him. His first time being away from
Daddy for more than a weekend, the first time being on a shuttle for
four hours, and the first time flying in an airplane. I was so very
nervous thinking about all the people he would be coming into contact
with, being a very small space with lots of people and noise, how would
he react?
He did really well, even when we missed our
flight due to being held up at security and had to wait three hours for
the next flight. I did learn that if I am to fly with him again I HAVE
to have non stop flights. On our way home we had one stop to let some
off and others on and he had a MAJOR meltdown. It got so bad that the
captain got his attention and asked him to stop, told him, "that's not
how we act on his plane". Now the captain's comments did offend one of
the flight attendants, who apologized to me, but it really didn't bother
me because it took my son off guard just enough for me to get him
calmed down.
