Women kicked off of plane by cops for noise sensitivity

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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15569222.Autistic_woman_huckled_off_EasyJet_flight_to_Glasgow_by_police_after_complaining_about_noise/

That poor woman.
She was clearly distressed so obviously she needs to be traumatised as well.

That's why I always carry my noise cancelling earplugs with myself.

Every time I fly, it's an exercise in not showing how I feel. That's why they have bars in airports.

That's awful. The steward who said to her, 'it's not noisy at all' made things worse. She felt invalidated and that would have made her more upset. It's really a culmination of many times being told there's nothing wrong throughout her life when there was something wrong. It's not so much that dismissal, but all of the dismissals all over again.

I flew with someone who was obviously distressed by flying and no one threw her off. A kind man noticed how upset she lookef and offered to swap seats with her so that she would feel better. I held her hand and she was ok once we were in the air. Ok so that was a fear of flying rather than autism, but still.

This poor woman could have been helped if shown a little compassion and understanding.

See, this is where having "lack of empathy" tied with autism misleads people into thinking that if an autistic person is in distress, he or she will become a danger to everybody. It makes me laugh how they can say that, when it's the NTs in this situation who actually lacked empathy for the autistic woman.

It just winds me up.

This is awful, especially the invalidating "It's not noisy at all." This kind of invalidation is what "mildly" autistic people get handed all through life.

And this stuff is precisely why many of us on the so-called milder end don't want to disclose to a brutal NT world, and will often strenuously suppress our discomfort even though doing so is incredibly harmful to us too. It's a harsh world out there when you look and act almost like everyone else but truthfully express even ONE difficulty and you're in a world of punitive actions for that.

THIS is why I cannot disclose or even give up "masking" and "just be myself" in my current life situation in ANYTHING.

To add some balance, an airline has a serious responsibility to a lot of people. If planes don't leave on time there are big repercussions, and a plane is not a place to have someone freak out as that has safety issues and if a flight needs to be diverted mid-flight again the issues are huge. So she was taken off that flight and helped to get home the next day. She was inconvenienced for a day but everyone else on that flight got home on time, so doctors might have got to do life-saving operations, people might have got to their funerals, important business meetings might have happened as scheduled. Sometimes not everything goes your way.

Yeah but they don't have to say stupid things like "It's not noisy at all." To an AUTISTIC person. It's "not noisy at all" to an NT but that doesn't change things for the person with sensory processing disorder.

And then forcefully remove her from the plane when all she wanted was a quieter seat. She wasn't even making a fuss, she just asked.

The whole thing could have been handled a very different way and didn't have to leave this woman feeling traumatized even more by the MANNER OF HER HANDLING than the sensory issue itself, at the end of the day.

Read the article again -- SHE WASN'T EVEN CREATING A SCENE.

It's the manner of her handling that escalated this to an upsetting incident for her instead of merely a later flight taken.

There's a way to go about everything without turning it in to a fiasco, skuffle, a humiliation or any other negative thing for anyone involved. End of story.

And Chichikov, I'm really sick of you always showing up after I post. Get OFF my f*****g back. You're posting contrarian snark after any post I make and it's time for you to go BULLY someone else.

Seriously SICK OF YOU.

I personally don't think there's a safety issue in accommodating an autistic woman so she can travel just like everyone else. She paid for the flight - like everyon else - so she should have the same rights! The aircraft staff and cops created a safety issue, they caused her to have a panic attack. This is discrimination.

Plan ahead, if you have noise sensitivity then you need to carry ear plugs or noise canceling headphones. You cant exactly leave an airline in flight if you have a meltdown due to noise.

The staff was obviously ignorant about autism but she should have brought ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones. You know you have hearing sensitive so you know it's not that loud to normal ears so it is your responsibility to bring something with you to make things quieter for you like noise cancelling headphones or ear plugs. Plus you can't always find somewhere quieter.

Personally I think there is more to this story that in this article , it just doesn't make sense to me that she was treated this way if she reacted as was quoted in the article. There are two sides to every story and EasyJet's replies appear to be damage limitation rather than anything else.