Airline lacks care for those in special need

AN AIRLINE rejected a father taking his 13-year-old autistic son onto a plane on Tuesday on the grounds that "the child's behavior was weird". Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday that the airline's dogmatic refusal to allow the juvenile passenger to board the aircraft exposes a lack of understanding of autism.

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior.

Children with autism, when they are forced to do something they don't want to do, will become aggressive to different degrees.