I don't care about the proper socialization of some random kid on a plane. That is not my job. That is a parent's job. As others have indicated, parents probabl

I don't care about the proper socialization of some random kid on a plane. That is not my job. That is a parent's job. As others have indicated, parents probably have a better understanding of the kid's special problems than I do. The point is not that we're going to solve this problem, of kids being unruly and parents saving their efforts for other priorities. If I didn't pay for first class, I can tolerate a couple hours of annoyance. The point was a far smaller one, that writing off poor public behavior as "well, autism is increasingly common now" is a pathetic cop-out, which does no favors for those who are actually autistic.