Most people today use social media as their primary means of communication. It is common to send photos of your children to friends and family for them to enjoy. Like other young mothers, she posts on social networks, but her reactions to photos and attitude towards her children are completely different. But he has some opinions…
Young mother Natasha adjusts to parenthood. Like many new mothers, she likes to post pictures of her one-year-old son Raedin online. But unlike most mothers, she is being bullied online because of her son’s looks.
She uploads videos of herself and Raedin on TikTok, a popular social media site. She regularly receives hundreds, if not hundreds, of requests to stop posting photos or videos of her son in the comments section of every post.
But Natasha has a warning for her detractors: “I won’t stop. She’s perfect and the fact that she looks different doesn’t diminish her,” she says.
He gets a lot of emails and replies. “What happened to your baby? “Why does your child look like that?”
Young Raedin was born with Pfeiffer syndrome, which causes deformities of the limbs, face and skull. But Natasha thinks her son is perfect, so she posts videos of him online whenever she can.
But because people are bad, she usually shares the more general opinion, “What will the quality of her life be like?” It includes statements such as: and “Why do you let me live like this?” “You allowed that person to live such a miserable life.”
As if internet trolls weren’t cruel enough, Natasha also receives real-life comments from individuals.
In public, strangers have approached her and asked her rude questions such as: “People come up to me and ask, ‘What’s wrong with your baby?’ Do they ask? Or “Why does your child look like that?” “It is not suitable for humans. It is difficult to appear in public because of the constant questions.
“It’s tiring to explain my son’s health issues over and over again,” she admitted. It’s hard to understand the level of interest you have in your son because of his looks. He asked, “Does it look different?” he asks. Yes, but that doesn’t stop him.
He lives like other children. “He deserves to be alive and accepted. I will fight for this until the day I die,” he said.
He does not like people’s interest in him, especially when an “interested” person suddenly approaches him in his everyday life and asks him questions.
She said people need to understand that she is just a mother, her son is still a boy and his illness cannot control their lives.
“My son may look different, but that doesn’t mean it’s just a lesson to teach the world.” The exhausted young mother continued.
Explaining my child’s health to others and repeating the same diagnosis over and over can be mentally and emotionally draining.
We are a simple family. I hope that one day everyone will accept people with disabilities instead of stereotyping them based on their appearance or disability.
It is truly heartbreaking to see how people today still criticize those who are different from themselves in any way. We want people to be inclusive and kind.
