Someone on my governor’s Facebook page said something really ableist about how I needed to teach my disabled children to rely on themselves rather than other people, and through the help of my friends finding out where he worked that got reported to the Human Relations (HR) department of his job. We’ve confirmed that it is his job by virtue of their response to us — they’ve also stated that they will take the appropriate action to it, so I can only imagine that they are not pleased that one of their employees foamed at the mouth about how disabled children of all people “needed to learn to rely on themselves”. It was said in an extremely ableist context, although the fact that it was ableist was clear to most people to begin with off the top, so it should be no wonder that it was actually reported to the Human Relations department of his job. I mean, this sort of thing happens on social media now when people can’t keep their mouths shut about things…
Also, it’s Halloween today. Because we are still in the midst of a global pandemic and the majority of the populace seems to have forgotten about that, the kids will be sharing a two-pound bag of candy amongst themselves in the living room rather than going out Trick-or-Treating. I would have given it to them yesterday since that was when our city “had” Trick-or-Treating to avoid having it fall on a Sunday and a school night (but more so on the fact that it fell on a Sunday this year), but Monster was adamant that they wait to open the bag of candy until it was actually Halloween, and for some reason Bub went along with this rather than open the bag of candy himself and turn it into a fight that I would’ve had to break up. That still surprises me.
