Genoa, cyclists block a disabled area on the train from Vesima and are chased away
Genoa – Another episode of incivility on the trains of Liguria and, once again, the price is paid by a family with a boy with a disability. It happened yesterday on the train from Vesima to Brignole station. A mother with her child with autism spectrum got on the train and found the area reserved for people with disabilities occupied by two cyclists who, getting on their bicycles, prevented regular passage.
The woman asked to be allowed to pass and, in response, everyone hears himself being addressed with a “lady where c…. should I put the bike on? “
The mother pointed out that by blocking the entrance which was a wagon for disabled people and one of the two cyclists, she increased the dose of incivility and idio by replying not to see any.
The agitated situation and the nervousness triggered a “crisis” of the child with neurodiversity and too much confusion and too many stimuli made the situation worsen quickly.
At the new request to be able, however, the mother was told that “the child is badly passed away” and so the woman had to explain that it was a very normal reaction of an autistic and that there was a space waiting for her.
The cyclists, instead of understanding the fool and the inconvenience caused, told the mother that she should not have taken the train.
At this point the discussion became inflamed and the woman called the conductor to whom she was forced to show the documents proving her son’s neurodivergence before obtaining the intervention of the security officer on the convoy.
The two cyclists insisted again and were made to get off the train.
“The question – explains Marco Macrì, spokesman for a group of families with this type of problem – is whether a disabled child is not in a wheelchair, if he does not have physiognomic features that highlight his condition, if he is not visually impaired he should not be defended and protected from railways and travelers? The entrances and paths for the carriages must be kept cleared even without explicit request and it is not foreseen that the accompanying person has to go around with the documents in the hand of his or her relative and flag them to obtain a sanctioned and foreseen right “.
Handicapped children with neurodevelopmental and autistic problems do not have traits that highlight their condition and therefore are not identifiable and if a parent, perhaps even embarrassed, exposes the condition of their loved one, point out the child as “rude” or “Capricious” and not understanding the situation of a mother in difficulty does not seem to citizens and railway representatives a sign of insensitivity to those who are more fragile ???