DALLAS — The mother of a disabled boy says her son is still in shock after he was put through an overly thorough airport security check. <br /> <br />Mom Jennifer Williamson posted a video to Facebook on Sunday that shows her son Aaron being patted down by a TSA agent in the security line at Dallas Forth Worth airport. <br /> <br />The official appears to pat the boy down in several areas more than once, and it makes for some pretty uncomfortable viewing. <br /> <br />In an accompanying post, Williamson accused the TSA of treating her family like dogs and traumatizing her son. <br /> <br />Williamson said Aaron has Sensory Processing Disorder, a condition that causes sensations to be incorrectly processed by the nervous system. This can lead someone with SPD to feel distressed or have inappropriate responses to being touched. <br /> <br />With that in mind, Williamson said she asked officials not to pat down her son. <br /> <br />She said he passed through a metal detector without the alarm going off. But the TSA agents went ahead anyway. <br /> <br />A livid Williamson said her son still doesn’t understand what he did wrong. What’s more, the process resulted in the family missing their original flight. <br /> <br />The video has been viewed more than 4 million times on Facebook. While some online commentators said the TSA agents were just doing their jobs, the overwhelming response was one of anger. <br /> <br />Some of the milder comments said the pat down went too far. Others however, questioned the mentality and the motivation of the official seen in the video. <br /> <br />In a statement, the TSA said the agent followed “all approved procedures … to resolve an alarm of the passenger’s laptop,” Fort-Worth newspaper the Star-Telegram reported.
