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i think that’s the speculation
Very good, on point!
Can someone explain to me why the 18 year old has to stay home to babysit his sister while the two paid respite workers can go out and A&P can go out? Shouldn't taking care of the kid be the responsibility of A) the parents or B) the people paid to do it in case said parents can't (or in this case won't)? Isaiah isn't even trusted to make his own decisions about leaving the house and has to notify his parents (because of all the spy tech) before he does, but is trusted to take care of his sisters every need? Which i'm guessing included changing her, taking her to the bathroom, putting her in bed, brushing her teeth etc.
Maybe the 40 going on 15 year old parents should stop treating their son as a free special needs baby sitting service!
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Was there a video on them crashing the kids party? Or just them talking about it?
Was there a video on them crashing the kids party? Or just them talking about it?
while I don't think either Summer or Becca should be automatically expected to spend their friday nights with Abbie (though of course they should be paid if so), it does seem so weird to me that they use respite care to pick her up from school when they both work from home, but not for when they want to go out. I would think they would want to save their paid respite care for those moments when they actually need respite, and ask Isaiah to help in the less high-pressure moments.
Guys, watch this older vid when Abbie was 13, I just came across it, I never saw it...omg just watch!
Maybe Isaiah just wanted to chill. Crazy they have two respite workers, one who lives with them and the other who stays late when they need her too and they still felt the need to go out when they weren’t available to watch Abbie.
And yeah why couldn’t Asa stay home? If they were drinking, he could have picked them up after.
Priscilla probably felt left out and just had to go out too. I wonder whose idea it was to crash the party. One of them should have put their foot down and said ok this is not a good idea.
Healthy boundaries are NOT a thing in the #Ma'assSquad (apostrophe cuz I like to pronounce it like My-Ass)
yeah I think Isaiah is a sweet enough kid that he doesn't either doesn't realize, or more likely, doesn't mind how casually they place this expectation on him. it's been said a hundred times in these threads before but for his sake, I can't wait for him to go to school and get some distance and independence.
To be fair, Becca and Summer should be able to have lives too. It’s not unheard of to have siblings babysit one another. Whether they have ASD or not. I’ve got a sister with autism and I’ve been babysitting her since I was 15. Some kids (or adults in Isaiah’s case) are just responsible like that.
I got here since almost at the end of thread #4 because of the boohoo video and I am not part of any kind of squad. I see how that can be disruptive to the original group dynamic and I respect that.
I can honestly say this is my only account (no idea how someone can keep up with more than one?) and I'll make sure to post only one comment per day, if necessary. I'm more of a listener (reader in this case) than a talker, so I'll just react to posts from now on. Thank you to all the original members of this group (Scooter squad?) for spreading real awareness! Please don't stop, I love reading y'all.
Good night, everyone.
Reading through all the posts, and the description of the new videos, I wonder so many things. How is it possible to make *that* much money from these videos? And what are they teaching their son about the value of work? It's not clear to me how much actual work he sees them doing. Are they really spending that many hours editing videos? And with regard to the young adult respite workers/family friends (seems lines are blurred)--to me this is another reason that an actual work environment is valuable for adults. They seem to have no (or few?) adults of their own to spend time with, and apparently think it is normal to find their young adult care workers out with friends and celebrating birthdays? I'd never dream of dropping in on my sitter's dinners or drinks out with friends. Boundaries. idk, maybe I'm showing my age here! (mid-40s, old enough to remember life before FB and YT)
Same. I don't have the mental energy to keep track of more than one account here. Dunno who is doing that, but I guess people can report the people they suspect and admins can investigate.
I would also like to point out that as an autistic person, I would never claim to know everything about every autistic person. But we do have an insight into sensory difficulties, stimming and such. It's a natural observance and something we can identify with, even if we don't have associated intellectual disorders. By the same token, you could argue that neurotpyical parents don't have the same insight as we do. I appreciate all perspectives, including that of parents/carers.
If I became Deaf one day, I would ask a community of Deaf people for tips about navigating the world, not their carers. It's only natural that autistic people will be viewing and have opinions on Fathering AUTISM no?
Additionally, since the "drama" has been exposed on FA, it's going to cause an increase in interest on forums like this. That can only be a good thing. There will be a rush of "omg he has another kid, and omg he hasn't been paying child support", that's gunna happen on gossip sites, it's a big thing. Not everyone cares about that, that's ok, but many do. It will die down over time. If every comment on here was solely about Abbie and her being exploited, these threads would die down.. why? because Abbie isn't the main focus anymore, they are now lifestyle vloggers, not autism vloggers. The change in discussion is also due to this.
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I dunno, it's only 2 or 3 people say this though. It's a bit odd tbh. I would've thought increased interest would be seen as a positive sign. This thread is one of the first results on google for me when searching anything on FA, so people will come here first before the more obscure sites.
It screams very much "I was here first!" It's just whiny and I don't want to spend too much longer on these people it's distracting from the actual topic of FA.
I’m glad more ppl have found this site & are sharing their stories & opinions. Maybe I missed a post?, but don’t really understand your “here 1st & whiny” comment. There was a flow to the comments for a long time & then the court records switched the focus, but that’s ok, I can understand why it became a thing. I don’t really get into all of that. My confusion comes from why youtube allows family channels, because it’s child exploitation. And until changes are made, I check i sporadically here & in a cpl other groups to see if there are any changes happening. I’m so glad YT got rid of comments on kid’s channels & SBSK. Even FA had lost their comments for a day sometime last year? I’m optimistic that YT will do a better job at demonetizing family ch one day.
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It was me who said it. It’s because some of the new members IMO were saying some weird things about Abbie....that she isn’t deserving of love because she’s IDD, it was said twice the boat workers didn’t want her on the boat when that isn’t true. It seems these threads werent like that, it was mostly about her parents being schemers and exploiting her, then is shifted to talking about Abbie negatively.
People have already brought up the pinching. But, isn't it obvious that a good portion of Abbie's extreme aggression comes from everyone encouraging her to "play wrestle" with Isaiah all the time. There is no way for Abbie to distinguish play wrestling from real fighting. She must be so confused about why sometimes she gets cheered for fighting and other times she gets punished. Of course, Abbie's aggression is not from that but it may play a huge role.
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