Remember the toddler and his mother who were kicked off an airplane in Houston (after an 11 hour delay) because the boy was repeating "bye, bye, plane" during the safety speech? This was after the flight attendant suggested drugging the child to keep him quiet.

This latest ejection is almost as egregious.

A mother and her autistic son were thrown off an American Airlines flight departing from the Raleigh- Durham International Airport because, as the pilot reportedly announced to the cabin, "the child is uncontrollable."
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This case, which comes on the heels of two other high profile examples--a severely autistic Minnesota boy who was banned from church and the autistic kindergartener in Florida who was voted out of class--shows we have a long, long way to go.