NJ autistic teen and his mom could not get home from Aruba for 3 weeks
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A N.J. family described their recent ordeal in Aruba — and it involved their teen, who has low-functioning autism, and a desperate effort to get back home.
Once it came time for the plane to take off, "that's when he started to get scared," said mom Jamie Greene. "We apparently couldn’t take a sedated person on a plane." Her son, said Jamie Greene, "was just scared. He is not violent and this behavior has never happened before." "All I kept doing was looking at was how beautiful my son was and not knowing what to do." "You think you have all your ducks in a row and then autism says, ‘No, you don’t.’ I just don’t know what else we could’ve done." "Our team has a deep understanding of the needs of individuals with sensory and invisible disabilities."
Jamie Greene, along with her boyfriend and three children, traveled to the Caribbean island of Aruba recently for vacation.
But when Greene’s son, Elijah, 15, who has low-functioning autism, had an episode as he boarded the flight home — the family alleges that their airline would not fly with them on board. And that was only the beginning of their nightmare.