New here.
I first watched FA a few years ago not long after I was diagnosed with autism as an adult. Was missed as a child/YA, high functioning all that. Obviously Abby is totally different to me, but I watched them out of curiosity. In the beginning I liked them until I saw them parade Abby on YT sitting on the toilet and after that I didn't watch for a while. Remembered about them recently and decided to check them out only to find them worse than ever. I've been sitting reading the various threads on here over the past few days and I agree with everyone.
Even more shocked to discover the third child and affair. So, they buy this half a million dollar home, filled with new stuff, yet he appears to default (I think?) on child support. There is nothing open and honest on their channel, there is nothing raw, it's acting with many shots taken to get the "perfect" (abusive) shot. There is nothing helpful or creative about their channel, it's saturated with "look at us, look at what we have bought, look where we are going" every. single. day.
I remember a video not long after they got their cat Nala, Abby was flapping around and smacked the cat, everyone just laughed, sorry, but high support needs or not, anyone doing that needs told off in an appropriate way, not just laughed off. Abby will grow into someone who thinks what she does is ok. I don't know much about IDD but I'm pretty sure laughing at that isn't the way to go about it.
I don't know how I feel about Summer, I find it strange that a child (as she was at the time) befriends a younger child with special needs and eventually moves in. It's kinda sinister to me. Not so much on Summer's part, but it just doesn't sit right with me. It's all very strange. Doesn't she have her own family/friends?
What's the deal with Dunkin all the time? I'm not in the States and we don't have Dunkin here, what's so special about their coffee that they need to go there daily and do some sort of unofficial product placement?
I feel sorry for Isaiah, that poor kid needs to know the world outside of his family. He needs space to grow into his own person that doesn't revolve around his sister. He isn't responsible for her, her parents are. If he chooses to do so when he's older, fine, but right now he's a young man that needs to learn what the bigger world is about and carve his own path. Highly annoyed when Asa seemed to disregard Isaiah's photos when they put them on canvas. Seems like Asa needs to be the #1 in that house.
Something keeps bothering me, are they deliberately stifling Abby's progress? Reducing therapy? We know they like to induce meltdowns re, hockey game incident.
They posted a video thanking an autistic person for telling them what may have been wrong with Abby at the hockey game. It appeared these reasons didn't even enter A&Ps heads? They have had 14 years of opportunity to learn about everything to do with autism including vestibular issues and proprioception. Those things I learned about myself within a week of my diagnosis with simple research on Google and engaging with the community. They are literally pathetic and don't seem to know the most basic things about their daughter's autism and/or IDD.
This has probably all been covered before but I've been itching to say all of this for a long time and this forum gives me that platform.
I can only imagine what her doctor thinks...
