Mother of Autistic Boy Who Flew Alone Receives Touching Note from Her Son’s ‘Travel Buddy’

Ben Pedraza and Landon, who has autism, shared a flight from Las Vegas to Oregon on June 27. Ben Pedraza via CNN

A Nevada woman had words of appreciation for a kind stranger who helped her autistic son cope with the anxiety of his first airplane flight all by himself.

Alexa Bjornson’s 7-year-old son Landon has high-functioning autism, a condition likened in a Pediatric Annals study to Asperger’s Syndrome and characterized by potential “social deficits, restricted interests, and odd or repetitive behavior.”