• setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I DROVE across Canada rather than dare take a plane with a possibility of screaming and kicking children. Sensory issues are a bitch.

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      1 year ago

      Sometimes plane travel can’t be helped, and little children can be loud and obnoxious. I feel for those around me, but as a parent we have to endure this far longer than anyone else. It’s not like we like the noise either.

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          1 year ago

          “Conflating the two is ableist and insulting.”

          I think the auto-reply should be an audible sigh and a “just shut the fuck up”. But hey, you tell me how you thought this would go?

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        1 year ago

        “Why won’t anyone think of the paaaaareeeents? Nobody suffers more than me from the problem that I created!”

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          1 year ago

          So now I need to conform to some dead-end 20 something because they can’t be bothered to bring headphones on a plane?

          Like I wasn’t an adult without kids at some point who had to fly with crying babies on board.

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              1 year ago

              True, and it’s my right to fly with them. I’m glad we’ve had this chat. I now feel a lot less pressure to please little dead-enders who just want silence. Life is noisy. I’m personally not in any rush for an eternity of silence, but you do you.