Noisy Skin Bag
1 min readSep 1, 2024

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I have totally seen this push for folks to capitalize on disabled children and there seems to also be this rather parasitic relationship between some of these parents and companies that sell products for disabled people. One wish that also developed during an almost year-long experiment impersonating my mom in an online autism parenting group (more about that here: https://medium.com/@noisyskinbag/10-things-i-learned-impersonating-my-mom-753b255382b2) is for autism parenting spaces to crack down on when parents use the most horrifically demeaning, dehumanizing, derogatory, and insulting language toward their children.

A lot of the time, these seem to be folks who don't necessarily want tons of attention, but just have socially-conditioned, toxic, ableist views toward their children and scapegoat them because they're too cowardly to place the blame for the lack of support they're getting where it belongs, which is with society at large and policy that has stemmed from its aggregate values. I'd say it should really become a rule in these spaces to speak/write about your child(ren) as if they would stumble upon what you said about them in 10 years.

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Noisy Skin Bag
Noisy Skin Bag

Written by Noisy Skin Bag

I am formally diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and OCD, and have informal diagnoses of PDA and 2e. I share my experience navigating the disability landscape.

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