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The Cruel Exploitation of Autistic people

       Exploitation has grown in the four years, whether it's political baiting to pit people as a stereotype that is false, videos filmed about children without their consent in vlogs about families, the exploitation healthy children to groom them in transition at an early age in the name of "LGBT", despite many LGBT people against it, any sexual contact towards children behind the scenes of television shows, etc. However, what if I were to tell you that this same thing, while it happens a lot, seems to happen a lot towards Autistic children, even if it isn't in the media or news at all. Here are some cases:


   Before we get into this, we ask the questions...

 What is exploitation?

 By definition, this can be any abuse show on camera or behind the scenes all in the name for views, money, fame, etc. This can be sexual, emotional, physical, or just forcing someone to be in the camera, despite their feelings or choice to be on camera at all. Some examples can be forcing a child to be on camera for views, disregarding their safety physically, mentally, or emotionally, filming a child crying on camera with no empathy, abuse behind the scenes or in the camera, etc.




Who are Autistic people?

Autistic people are Adults or children that live with Autism Spectrum Disorder.


With that, out of the way, here are some cases of exploitation against Autistic people:


  1. The Stauffer Case:
This case involved a woman named Myka Stauffer, a mommy influencer, after years of being a registered nurse, who had been struggling with views on her own channel with her own name, along with her husband, James Stauffer, who cleans cars on his YouTube about cleaning cars called Stauffer Garage. Together, the two ran a third channel called Stauffer Life, a vlogging YouTube channel all about their family, which included with their daughters and one son, whose names I will not be mentioned here. This channel started a long time ago, where it was all about their three children until one big surprise. Myka Stauffer was planning to adopt a child. To even start, she looked into an agency, who had a little Chinese boy. A three-four little Chinese boy, at the time, who others would consider, being Low-Functioning or Level 3 Autistic, had a brain tumor, several delays, etc., that would possibility have limited his life. All despite the fact that she stopped wanting to work with cancer patients as a registered nurse, because as she quotes in an interview, "It wasn't my jam". Yet, besides all of this, with all the hopes in the world to adopt a child, begging, pleading, with all the words in the world to have this boy, she ignoried all the warnings about the situation around him by, and I quote from one of her videos I once watched as a former fan before finding out about this situation, 

   "I was kind of letting everything go one ear and out the other."

      - Myka Stauffer 

  After all the pleading in the world and pulling the stops, she finally got what she wanted. The little Chinese boy. Happy she got what she wanted, she made a series of videos about him with all the information about him, including what he looked like. She even re-named H, after many suggestions she put out there. With everything out there, she even had her fans give her money to go and take H to their home, despite already have some money come in. 

  With everything in place, she traveled all the way to where the company was and took their now adoptive boy, at the time, "home". For three years, she exploited him by filming his meltdowns on camera, barely putting a lot in his room, putting him to bed before their biological children, always putting him in pictures whenever she had to post a picture to feature a brand deal, duct-taping his thumb to stop him from sucking on it, paying less for speech therapy, saying she had "no money for it", despite purchasing a $500 bracelet and getting so much money from the videos & escalating views from 100,000 views on her analytics to 400,000 views to, even more. Even punishing him when he was dealing with a trauma response of taking food from the kitchen, due to his anxiety about not always having food in the house, all on camera to see. All of this was done for three years, before she declared him as "too hard", "violent", lying about how "there were diagnosises that they were not told about" like having another diagnosis called RAD, an acronym for Reactive Attachment Disorder, and hurting her children, etc. With this in mind, she went on a Facebook group filled with many other adoptive parents trying to re-home him without anyone knowing, not even their fans, despite knowing he was in the foster-care system as well.




   After searching for all ways to get rid of him, they found a family that would take him. Now they had a way to get rid of him, they took all the money that they got from to buy new expensive cars, a new house, and took a trip to Bail with her husband, along with her newborn biological baby, another son. All while H was being taken away from her kids, keeping everything underwraps before she changed her social media bio from mother of 5 to mother of four. She would even delete comments asking about where H was, considering people were noticing that H had not been appearing in the videos anymore. After this, a whole investigation on the internet looking for where H was, considering the Stauffers were being secret about it. Something I was apart of by watching a channel called The Dad Challenge Podcast, a YouTube podcast guy named Josh, who calls out about the injustice and crime about exploiting children against their will like H was. He even tried to do a GoFundMe for H, to take all that money to give to his family, before the Stauffers shut it down. The link to his videos about his case and other videos will be below. However, despite everyone calling her out, including Josh himself, she finally makes two apologies, one with her and her husband fake crying behind glasses saying how "sorry" they were against her lawyers' wishes, then Myka, by herself, wrote an apology that also wasn't an apology at all either. After everything, an actual police investigation being created where they lived, finding H safe and sound with another family, etc. She stopped the third channel and went away for good, kind of.


2. Chloe Cole: 

Chloe Cole is am Autistic female Detransitioner, who was influenced by lies of "Trans" influencers, to transition. Something she took seriously as a 14 - 16 year old teenager, consider her struggle with hearing the cons of being a woman everywhere she went, accepting her developmentally delayed body appearance, including her trauma of sexual assault from a boy being in a classroom as well. After going through the traumatic transition process, like telling her parents, "changing her pronouns", changing her appearance, get her boobs cut off as a teenager, her parents being blackmailed with the question, "Would you rather have a dead daughter or an alive son?", the whole shabang. Yet, afterwards, she regretted it, because she started to miss her body, dealing with sexual dysfunction, robbed of the choice to have kids or not, based on infertility, everything. Which, then, knowing that, she announced it, not expecting the bullying of the Trans cult to silence her, because "It was hurting others". Knowing all of this, she finally processed all of this, then started advocating against the sexualization, sexual exploitation, medicalization, and mutilation towards transitioning minors. Which is still does to this day. If you would like to know more about her story, read about my blog about modern eugenics right here. However, there are more Autistics than her, who also become groomed and lied into transition, whether they have Gender Dysphoria or not.


And lastly, here is an alleged case of exploiting: 

3. Fathering Autism: 

Fathering Autism is a family vlogging YouTube channel that centers around the life of the Mass family and their Autistic daughter, Abby, who someone would also consider Low-functioning This family doesn't care about their Autistic daughter at all. They leave with Summer, a respite worker, who works with Abby. Their claim on why they do this is to "raise awareness on Autism". However, it seems that Abby is the star that raises more than just Autism Awareness, it seems. From watching, of course, Dad Challenge Podcast on one video about Fathering Autism, when he looked at just the analytics on her mother's Facebook posts, it was shown that when Abby is not in a post, the views are low, but when she is, they sky rocket to the sun. In fact, even from their YouTube channel, they have videos of Abby being neglected and filmed against her will, there is one with her mother, who had either a towel or a bag over her head, along with one with father filming on camera about how she uses the bathroom. Though, if that wasn't bad enough, these parents even force her to go to places with their fans against her will. In fact, there has been evidence of a creepy guy joking about going to see her and well, wanting her to be his "doll" and not the playing kind, if you will. I mean there has been a grown woman in a video, who was way too happy about watching Abby in their videos too. Now, these people have deny the fact that this is what they are doing, but evidence doesn't lie. 


Conclusion

  With all the three cases I just showed you, do you see the exploitation or alleged exploitation going on here? Especially with Autistic people? What is with non-Autistic people and their want for exploitation, lying, or mind games with Autistic people, children or not, when they are trying to live their lives. I am not sure, but one thing I do know is that, with my experience and these cases, I have to watch out. 

And that's it, Lovelies! If there is a case like these that you want me to talk about comment below! And as always, Thank you for reading and I'll see you in the next post!

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