So in this episode we're shown some workers at the airport replacing a GLASS sign right over the heads of the passing passengers. OF COURSE the sign breaks and OF COURSE there's a little boy standing right under it. You believe that? They evacuate half of Chicago every time a Southwest plane skates off the runway in O'Hare... again. But not this airport!
Next, we see a father who repeatedly slaps his autistic son for... being autistic. The poor mother is trying to intervene by shouting "You're hurting him!" In the process of slapping his son the father throws his pet rabbit against the wall thus killing it. The boy and his brother take the rabbit to a doctor and openly discuss how they're not going back home and will be living on their own. The good doctor (pun intended) just looks away in pity. This must be 1930s? Maybe 1950s? 1970s at the latest!? Nope. It's mid-2000s. Child Protection Services don't exist. The doctor is not obligated to report domestic abuse. Everything's peachy.
Next, we're transcended roughly 12-15 years ahead. The advisory board of a clinic in San Jose. You know what they're doing? They are openly discussing how they won't hire a person because he's autistic. Unlike EVERY other institution in the United States, this hospital doesn't have the Code of Conduct that clearly forbids discriminating against people based on their disbilities.
It sure looks like the script was written for a different time and was adapted "as best as we could". Let's see where this goes.