Sorry this is off-topic; I've never posted on this thread before, but I was looking at Charlotte's earlier instagram pictures and saw one of her daughter as a baby, showing her cleft palate prior to it being operated on. In the comment, she said she's excited for her to no longer sound like Darth Vader. Call me a snowflake but what the actual duck?
My sister has a cleft palate and my parents didn't have it operated on when she was a baby because the doctors warned that it would likely result in her face being deformed, so they waited until she was older for her to have the operation and it didn't work. The gap in her palate reopened. She's had a lifelong crippling complex about the mild speech impediment that it's given her and in her 30's, she still has deep anxiety about it; she won't talk on camera, she struggles to talk on the phone and because of her voice, some people speak to her as if she has a mental disorder. I know this is TMI but I want Charlotte to know the impact of her words. I'm so glad my sister doesn't know who Charlotte is and will never read that she sounds like Darth bleeping Vader because of her cleft palate.
I know that comment is from years ago, but it's still on her instagram feed and I can't believe the insensitivity of it. It might seem like a joke to her but I know my sister would be devastated to read something like that. The fact Charlotte and her daughter used to have cleft palates doesn't give her the right to discriminate against others with them. I used to like the woman before I read that comment.