Dang she is in her 30’s looks like she is 50+, not a great add for skincare she sales.
Fathering Autism #9 Eat and Travel as much as we wanna, we're spreading awareness and Corona
- Status
New to Tattle Life? Click "Order Thread by Most Liked Posts" button below to get an idea of what the site is about:
I saw a tiktok of a teacher who showed off a sci experiment w/ several slices of bread in seperate baggies. One slice was all gray & moldy from being rubbed on a laptop, another was moldy & gross after being touched by the hands of 20+ kids, another showed how moldy & yellow the bread was after kids used hand sanitizer then touched the bread...& the bread that was touched w/ washed hands was still clean looking. So she can shove her hand sanitizer.
Except every neighbor in a 3 block radius
That’s what I keep saying. Use soap and water. When I was growing up we had no hand sanitizer and I seemed to have survived other flu outbreaks the last 50 years. Also, the frenzy over bottled water cracks me up. Turn on your faucet and you’ll have water. Crazy how so many have panicked. Use caution I agree but talk about going off the rails.
Wow, these people are a bunch of panhandling hustlers. Congratulations "Crazy" Nanny for getting out of that
. She was not about that monkey business, faking for the cameras and scripted vlog drama. By the time they moved to the new house, she was always taking Abbie out, on walks and different places. Anyone notice that Abbie's recent sleep problems started right after Nanny left them? And I was mad at what Priscilla had to say about her leaving..."oh we supported her through everything". Yeah while she took care of your special needs daughter, bathed and toileted her, played with her, took her places, did art with her, took her for walks and folded their laundry, house sat for them, turns out had a long commute to get to their place and her husband has Cancer. They didn't appreciate her, always praise for Becca and Summer, even in the new house they said "yeah Abbie is getting used to walking because Becca takes her out" Really??
, now all Abbie has are these "kids" who can't even get her to go into Target, and get happy about "making" her a "meal" of PB&J and chips. Where is Abbie's art Asa? What does summer and Becca actually DO with Abbie.... ooooooh yeah, boops, tickle time and patty cake, priorities right Priscilla 
Well Summer is with her family this week. I wonder if they were mad that she she went to Atlanta with them.
Very true, thank you. Another thing (the main thing) that makes Abbie happy if food, mostly junk food. However she has to be limited and trained how to handle food or she would eat until she vomited. Similarly she needs to be taught how to function in the world and interact with others. She learns through consistent interaction and repetition according to them. So if tickling and wrestling is a large part of her interaction with others what will she do when she is older, how will she adapt to future care givers. What if she needs to go to a group home. These are all very real circumstances that she may face as a toddler trapped in the body of an adult. Again, they need to reevaluate what "set for life" fully entails.
I feel so sad for that puppy! They got the dog for views, nothing more.
That's a fair point. I think lines and boundaries get blurred with Summer because she has been a friend of the family for a long time and only recently started being a respite worker for Abbie. How does she separate which interactions with Abbie are as her caregiver and which are as a friend (Yes, I know the whole friend thing is debatable but I'm using it for lack of a better term)? One way might be that within a certain timeframe - say 9:00am to 6:00pm, Summer is doing respite/caregiver work. The rest of the time she's off-duty. Should she not interact with Abbie during off-duty hours, so as not to confuse Abbie?? No, that wouldn't really work. Plus she's living with them. So yeah, major lines & boundaries being blurred and messy. Becca seems to be a bit more professional with it but she doesn't spend as much time with them as Summer does and she doesn't live there. With Isaiah, he's Abbie's sibling who has been forced into the caregiver role. With him, goofing around is a typical sibling dynamic.
In my opinion, excessive tickling is abuse. I would rather get punched in the face.
I asked how they handle routine dental exams a year or so ago. I asked a few times actually. And I never got a response from them.
She may also see what they really think of the Maass family and Abbie's behavior at school.
Because of Abbie's size and physical age I find it inappropriate. Also, they want her to be gentle with people and she doesn't realize the difference. She pinches, kicks, pulls hair...if she is treated gently they can teach her to touch gently.
Or maybe they feel guilty after reading this site.
Or maybe she got the hell up out of there after she heard
snotting everywhere.A few things about the tickling/wrestling.
P constantly goes on about how Abbie is a “typical teen” . While not so in the sense of emotional levels,she is experiencing Puberty. And while not able to verbalize,no one knows exactly what she experiences from those sort of “play” ( and please,not being a weirdo).
And not just the fact of puberty,but she cannot verbalize if she enjoys it,nor can she differentiate between play/ acceptable behaviors.
Why not sit w her and try some sort of activity that would be both a learning experience and also a calming one?
All of them,from MoobMan down,could be actually helping her with her communicating devices to learn more(even if it’s 1 or 2) ways to “communicate” w them.
Asa alluded to the school saying she was making more intelligible sounds,he even spent a whopping 40 seconds on a vlog trying to prove it. Hmm,how about each of them taking a turn to make that happen( if possible)?
Of course it’s damned hard when one is all consumed w getting a vlog out there so the loons can drool,declare undying love,etc.
It’s damned hard when most of your time is spent”working” and on the phone most of the day.
I,like many others,have no clue just how much Abbie can learn/absorb,but damn,make the effort,and that means at home as well as school.
If she can be taught to put her shoes on( and on the right foot each day) then she just may be able to be taught some other things to make her life just a little bit easier without having as many meltdowns.
P constantly goes on about how Abbie is a “typical teen” . While not so in the sense of emotional levels,she is experiencing Puberty. And while not able to verbalize,no one knows exactly what she experiences from those sort of “play” ( and please,not being a weirdo).
And not just the fact of puberty,but she cannot verbalize if she enjoys it,nor can she differentiate between play/ acceptable behaviors.
Why not sit w her and try some sort of activity that would be both a learning experience and also a calming one?
All of them,from MoobMan down,could be actually helping her with her communicating devices to learn more(even if it’s 1 or 2) ways to “communicate” w them.
Asa alluded to the school saying she was making more intelligible sounds,he even spent a whopping 40 seconds on a vlog trying to prove it. Hmm,how about each of them taking a turn to make that happen( if possible)?
Of course it’s damned hard when one is all consumed w getting a vlog out there so the loons can drool,declare undying love,etc.
It’s damned hard when most of your time is spent”working” and on the phone most of the day.
I,like many others,have no clue just how much Abbie can learn/absorb,but damn,make the effort,and that means at home as well as school.
If she can be taught to put her shoes on( and on the right foot each day) then she just may be able to be taught some other things to make her life just a little bit easier without having as many meltdowns.
Thank you 
I have a question. What is the difference in a melt-down and a tantrum? When i think of melt-down I think that everything has become so overwhelming you just kind of loose it emotionally, with a tantrum you are more or less pissed because its you not getting what you want, or when you want it. I would like to see everyone thoughts on this.
I sincerely wish that Abbie can be "taught" to do more things.
However, the reality is, she's been left in the wild for far too long and I don't believe she has the "ability".
Sadly, that train left the station long ago.
In my opinion.
However, the reality is, she's been left in the wild for far too long and I don't believe she has the "ability".
Sadly, that train left the station long ago.
In my opinion.
Wanting her to be gentle with others is, in my opinion, the most compelling reason to be gentle with her.
To me a meltdown is "I can't cope with this situation ." And a tantrum is "I don't want to do something I am capable of doing or you won't give me what I want."
I see some grey area in there too. For someone who can't communicate and is at the mercy of others, not being able to say "I am able to do this most of the time, but not right now" must make life so much harder.
Last edited:
According to A&P, a tantrum is Abbie "communicating" what she wants by crying, yelling, jumping and thrashing. A melt-down is all of the above but includes aggression as well. However, Brandy has told them and the vlog in general several times that I have seen, that she does not differentiate between a meltdown or tantrum....that they are BOTH unacceptable forms of communication and behavior and shouldnt be reinforced...but Asa "knows" his Sweet Girl, and tantrums are "excellent" because she is "communicating" and just needs to express herself better.
- Status