Asa Requa Maass & Priscilla Maass / Fathering Autism - Family from Florida that exploits their severely autistic child for merch and threatens people who find out about his third child.

[Special spoonie]

To be honest I spend most my time in the munchie board where medfagging is encouraged to see through holes in the subjects lies. I don’t see the issue with powerlevelling when it’s someone educated on the subject and not powerlevelling for no good reason. If it’s a subject where potential MBP/exploiting a disabled child then what’s the harm.

 

[BallBuster]

What I find most disturbing is the amount of admiration this scumfuck gets in the comments. People think he’s a great father. How are they so blind to him exploiting and basically abusing this kid?

 

[Null]

powerlevelling

It is not fucking powerleveling to talk about your job. Unless it is embarrassing to you, it is not powerleveling, and it never has been. Can all you new fucking people stop butchering the forum's vocabularly?

Not powerleveling: "I know what mental asylums are like because I work as a guard in one."
Powerleveling: "I know what mental asylums are like because when I tried to kill myself by eating my own shit I got put in one!"

Jesus FUCK

 

[Android raptor]

With non-verbal autistics a lot of them are fairly intelligent when give the right way of communication. Thing is, their parents have to work and figure out how they communicate best and a lot don't. I highly doubt this asshole has.

And even with developmental delays and whatnot it's still a good idea to assume at least basic competence and not, you known, force a camera in the face of a kid that clearly doesn't want to be filmed and tell the entire internet about their toileting habits.

Hell as fucked as the Hartley Gremlins were even they didn't deserve Gwen constantly posting about them shitting themselves and shit.

Good rule of thumb I've seen disabled people advocate is that if you wouldn't post it about a non-disabled kid, you shouldn't post it about a disabled one. Even if they can't understand it still is a matter of respect and not being exploitive.

 

[bonkbonkbonk]

Only the scum of the Earth have their kids be the financial breadwinner of the household. No child should ever have to have that burden. Does this guy even have a job? Or did he quit like so many other 'parents' (Daddyofive, Desmond is Amazing, ect), so they can rake in those sweet sweet exploration bucks? Holy shit...the mortgage depends on Abbie being monetized. They are going on expensive vacations that Abbie can't even enjoy...all because her every waking moment is monetized.

There's a difference between fundraising for stuff like treatments and therapy, cause yeah those are expensive. But does Abbie need to live in a huge McMansion? Does Abbie need to go to Jamaica and get sick on a cruise? It all just feels incredibly scummy. If for some reason youtube demonetizes the videos, that family will be fucked.

Now the guy just totally ignoring his love child is par the course cause he can't exploit her for money like he can with his current children.

They quit their job. Before YouTube all they ever did for cash was sue the school system for not accommodating their exceptional little girl (and keep it in the local news CONSTANTLY... Thry even had Isiah selling lemonade for gis exceptional sister. Poor guy.) and they had a small business called A&P Services (small engine repair) that got awful reviews on Yelp... And some fake good ones. You can tell the fake ones. They are the 5 star ones from after they went to full time vlogging. LOL

A&P Services - CLOSED - Northside - Jacksonville, FL

Specialties: A&P is North Jacksonville's only motorcycle, ATV, and small engine repair shop. We specialize in all makes and models of powersports and power equipment from Harleys to Hondas...ATVs to Crotchrockets...Zero turns to weed…

m.yelp.com

Also, probably not worth her own thread YET.... bur Lauren Brazee is Pigcilla Maass' BFF and she is overflowing with lolcow gravy. Definitely keep an eye on her. She has a special daughter too (but hers is actually autistic and not IDD) and wants to be just like Priscilla. LOL.

 

[Providence Backing_21]

Stop acting like you've got some big important job and this is some educational material. What has it taught you? To huff and puff while you waddle after the tards with a camera and to scream at her for fucking up the footage AFTER the camera is off? wow

How is this educational? Not even being funny

Why get so mad at another user. You're acting exceptional over this relax.

 

[Chicken Picnic]

Wrangler life is hard! Boohoohoo. /powerlevel
//snip

Lol, well i used to be a wrangler, i do teaching work now in schools like where Abbie goes, so no im not just stopping kids from smashing their head in walls and drinking out of toilets. I'm not gonna battle back and forth with you questioning my ability to do my own job tho. In special schools it's not just the teachers doing the teaching, us aids have to be very much involved in helping the students in doing their work and following their educational plans.

How does it help? By teaching you about yet another way someone's autism presents. You can work in the field for 60 years and still meet a new kid who behaves completely differently. I want to know your own experience on the topic, since you're so sure on Abbie being one step above being a slightly sentient potato? Do you work in SPED? Or maybe studied it? I'm interested, since it's out of my league to talk about it. I'd be tempted to just assume, by your posts, that you know nothing at all since you think everything she does is just a stim and not a way of trying to communicate what she wants. But what do I know right, im just a wrangler turned SPED teacher's aid. It's not like some of us actually get training to do our jobs, like on appropriate behaviour management, child development and the importance of safeguarding kids from being exploited and abused by care givers. Just because you don't need formal qualifications to work in this field doesn't mean people don't actively study to make sure they're doing the best job they can.

I take my work seriously, because when you actually work with kids that have CPS involved in their care due to people in their lives abusing them, past or present, you have to be very much on the look out for everything and anything that could point to abuse. When kids come in constantly dirty and unkempt, or have suspicious bruises, or even have behaviours already flagged up as some form of sexual risk because someone decided to take advantage of having a sped child and rape them when they were younger, you take people saying "hey this family is exploiting and maybe abusing their disabled child on youtube" pretty seriously. So, again I ask you why you're also so qualified to talk about this? If you're gonna shit talk my job I think it's only fair I get a chance to know yours.

And yeah i didn't mention it because I know nothing about it, I said the parents may be shitty people but I care about the kids more than anything. I'm specifically talking about how they are treating their daughter since if they were abusing her in any way I would want to do everything I could to make sure that kid is safe and cared for. That might sound dramatic, but some people in this line of work actually really care about the people they work with and the idea of someone exploiting and abusing their kids online for fame and money is some blood boiling shit.

Talk all you want about Asa being a piece of shit. I said past behaviour referring to the fact he had a criminal record mainly, but that's all I said on the matter when it came to him. If he owes child support, he should pay it, that's a no brainer. I didn't think I needed to elaborate much on that because it was pretty obvious. I literally ended my first post with "i wasn't saying they don't need a thread," because this is the farms- it's for drama and gossip. But some people here talk like this family is gonna be the next Hartley Hooligan troop/ Schofield squad or something with how they treat Abbie, and I don't agree with that.

 

[Fucken Monster]

Lol, well i used to be a wrangler, i do teaching work now in schools like where Abbie goes, so no im not just stopping kids from smashing their head in walls and drinking out of toilets. I'm not gonna battle back and forth with you questioning my ability to do my own job tho. In special schools it's not just the teachers doing the teaching, us aids have to be very much involved in helping the students in doing their work and following their educational plans.

I appreciate the clarification. I chimped out because I'm sick of the fat fuck pretending he's educating, and firmly disagree that he is. "Education" is not taking your exceptional child and making a buck off their beetfaced screaming while you film.

How does it help? By teaching you about yet another way someone's autism presents. You can work in the field for 60 years and still meet a new kid who behaves completely differently. I want to know your own experience on the topic, since you're so sure on Abbie being one step above being a slightly sentient potato? Do you work in SPED? Or maybe studied it? I'm interested, since it's out of my league to talk about it. I'd be tempted to just assume, by your posts, that you know nothing at all since you think everything she does is just a stim and not a way of trying to communicate what she wants. But what do I know right, im just a wrangler turned SPED teacher's aid. It's not like some of us actually get training to do our jobs, like on appropriate behaviour management, child development and the importance of safeguarding kids from being exploited and abused by care givers. Just because you don't need formal qualifications to work in this field doesn't mean people don't actively study to make sure they're doing the best job they can.

She communicates ineffectively and I question her ability to learn. I have studied SPED, and yes, I think one step above sentient potato is a fair assessment of Abbie. I doubt she understands the complexities of filming, putting it up, etc. She cannot both try to escape and sign that she's all done and have it be meaningless and also be an effective communicator. At least, not in a way as someone who has less experience than you (which it sounds like I do) understands.

I take my work seriously, because when you actually work with kids that have CPS involved in their care due to people in their lives abusing them, past or present, you have to be very much on the look out for everything and anything that could point to abuse. When kids come in constantly dirty and unkempt, or have suspicious bruises, or even have behaviours already flagged up as some form of sexual risk because someone decided to take advantage of having a sped child and rape them when they were younger, you take people saying "hey this family is exploiting and maybe abusing their disabled child on youtube" pretty seriously. So, again I ask you why you're also so qualified to talk about this? If you're gonna shit talk my job I think it's only fair I get a chance to know yours.

But the reality is even with yearly training for abuse red flags, which we have here, much of it is missed. And sexual abuse is very different from forcing a severely mentally handicapped girl to perform within the confines of the camera when it appears bewildering for her. The latter is not really something child services has the ability to intervene with, but it doesn't make him a saint and a paragon for the "autism awareness community".

And yeah i didn't mention it because I know nothing about it, I said the parents may be shitty people but I care about the kids more than anything. I'm specifically talking about how they are treating their daughter since if they were abusing her in any way I would want to do everything I could to make sure that kid is safe and cared for. That might sound dramatic, but some people in this line of work actually really care about the people they work with and the idea of someone exploiting and abusing their kids online for fame and money is some blood boiling shit

It's not a red room. This part isn't a cut and dried issue.

Some people do. Some people really don't. Some people are so neck deep in far worse shit.

Talk all you want about Asa being a piece of shit. I said past behaviour referring to the fact he had a criminal record mainly, but that's all I said on the matter when it came to him. If he owes child support, he should pay it, that's a no brainer. I didn't think I needed to elaborate much on that because it was pretty obvious. I literally ended my first post with "i wasn't saying they don't need a thread," because this is the farms- it's for drama and gossip. But some people here talk like this family is gonna be the next Hartley Hooligan troop/ Schofield squad or something with how they treat Abbie, and I don't agree with that.

They're the same as Gwen with better packaging, IMO. My chimping out stemmed from acting like Asa simply had a child out of wedlock and was otherwise a good dad doing the world a service discussing public diarrhea on YouTube. No hard feelings, I hope.

 

[RatRoyalty]

I think we're moving away from what actually makes Asa Maass a lolcow (criminal history, abandoned daughter, and could be preparing another hilarious legal threat directed at the Farms). Unlike other shitty parent YouTubers like DaddyOFive, this guy isn't putting out videos where he tries to enrich himself off his kids at their expense. These parents have a severely low functioning autistic daughter who needs full time care. They found a way to provide the care she needs without having to rely on government support, and they're giving people a window into their lives so others can see what its like. Some of the videos seem concerning (like the potty training one), and the meet and greets are definitely weird in a Honey Boo Boo way, but for the most part I think the videos are harmless.

With that said, the dad is definitely a grifter with a shady past who needs to make things right with the kid he abandoned. If she's from his schlubby seed, the least he can do is give her a cut of the Fathering Autism fortune.

 

[Whale Lake 2]

They found a way to provide the care she needs without having to rely on government support, and they're giving people a window into their lives so others can see what its like.

Are they, though? Because from what it looks like, their daughter is in a lot of distress and doesn't seem to be receiving the proper care her condition would require.

Not saying that they don't use the money that come from their channel for that too, but they seem to be more focused on living a cushy life at their daughter's expense, rather than trying to get help for their daughter first and a nicer life then.

 

[Cheeseburger Picnic]

This kid would be better off as a Harley Hooligan potato, at least she wouldn't know or care about being put on display like a side show circus freak for those sweet youtube bux

 

[RatRoyalty]

Are they, though? Because from what it looks like, their daughter is in a lot of distress and doesn't seem to be receiving the proper care her condition would require.

Not saying that they don't use the money that come from their channel for that too, but they seem to be more focused on living a cushy life at their daughter's expense, rather than trying to get help for their daughter first and a nicer life then.

From what I've watched (about 5 videos, 20 minutes each, and the clips in this thread) I wouldn't say Abby ever looks distressed so much as sometimes she seems annoyed or frustrated, the way a toddler would be about sitting still for too long. The success of the YouTube channel gave them a comfortable life. Without trivializing Asa's child support issue, isn't that the point of starting a business endeavor? Do we want to put a cap on how much money someone can earn? The claims that these videos are exploiting Abby are moral policing at best, concern trolling at worst.

The alternative could be that both parents get "real" jobs and leave Abby's care to a state-provided caretaker while the family lives in less-than-comfortable conditions. Think about how Chris-Chan's upbringing shaped him, his parents largely ignored his autism. Now he's filming himself masturbating while singing smash mouth as he receives his monthly tugboat. If the Chandler family had more money they could've afforded proper care and CWC could've grown into a functional adult.

I don't want to sound like I'm defending Asa, but Chicken Picnic claims to be a professional who works with tards and also follows this channel. Their take on the channel lines up with my impression from watching a few videos, and I don't think they're making things up just to defend a channel they enjoy. There's definitely some questionable videos and some clickbaity thumbnails/titles, but their home isn't messy or dirty, the kids seem clean and presentable whenever on camera, and they're not inflicting DaddyOFive levels of cruelty on the kids for the sake of clicks.

 

[Untrue and Dishonest]

Ironically, Abby is the most sane person in the household.

 

[Table Country]

the kids seem clean and presentable whenever on camera

So does North Korea.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

From what I've watched (about 5 videos, 20 minutes each, and the clips in this thread) I wouldn't say Abby ever looks distressed so much as sometimes she seems annoyed or frustrated, the way a toddler would be about sitting still for too long. The success of the YouTube channel gave them a comfortable life. Without trivializing Asa's child support issue, isn't that the point of starting a business endeavor? Do we want to put a cap on how much money someone can earn? The claims that these videos are exploiting Abby are moral policing at best, concern trolling at worst.

The alternative could be that both parents get "real" jobs and leave Abby's care to a state-provided caretaker while the family lives in less-than-comfortable conditions. Think about how Chris-Chan's upbringing shaped him, his parents largely ignored his autism. Now he's filming himself masturbating while singing smash mouth as he receives his monthly tugboat. If the Chandler family had more money they could've afforded proper care and CWC could've grown into a functional adult.

I don't want to sound like I'm defending Asa, but Chicken Picnic claims to be a professional who works with tards and also follows this channel. Their take on the channel lines up with my impression from watching a few videos, and I don't think they're making things up just to defend a channel they enjoy. There's definitely some questionable videos and some clickbaity thumbnails/titles, but their home isn't messy or dirty, the kids seem clean and presentable whenever on camera, and they're not inflicting DaddyOFive levels of cruelty on the kids for the sake of clicks.

Chris's parents refused to give him the help he needed, even though it was offered; they even sued to try to keep him out of a facility that could have helped him.
This situation is much the same. Asa has refused to give his daughter the care she needs and even puts her in situations where her autism causes her harm (such as the cruise, where he was told not to put her in the ocean, but he did, resulting in her drinking the salt water, getting diarrhea, and shitting all over the cruise ship deck.)
For me, at least, it's beyond a doubt that he is exploiting her autism to live the high life, and he's worked to shut down any critical discussion of his methods.

 

[Manah]

How is this guy able to spell doxing right and basically every reporter ever can't?

 

[To Infinity And Beyond]

This is painful to look at, don't know how anyone could support this type of creator. I hope someday Abby can get into a better home

 

[Jeanne d'Arc]

I agree this dude is definitely a lolcow and a total asshole that uses his kids as a shield from criticism, but if you compare him to the Schofields you are out of your goddamn mind.

The Schofields (specifically Susan) pumped medicine that should not be given to human beings (maybe save for certain, extremely niche situations) into two of their kids and damaged them irreparably while acting like fucking saints. This dude is pimping his autistic daughter for YouTube views. He takes her to Disneyland, on vacations, etc. There is an immense difference in the quality of life the Schofield kids experienced and what Abby is currently experiencing. I do believe she is uncomfortable with being filmed in many situations (that bathroom video especially, what the fuck dude) and being around obscene numbers of strangers, but I do not believe at this moment that she is being abused. That kind of behavior is typical of Autistic kids that aren't the most well adjusted. I think Asa is a meatheaded moron that does not fully understand his daughter and the inherent limitations someone with Autism has to deal with to live a comfortable life, but to compare him to someone that literally nearly killed one of their children, quite potentially deliberately, is ridiculous to me.

That being said I do hope he produces vexatious litigation and generally makes an ass out of himself as long as Abby is not harmed in any way. This child he abandoned makes for an interesting story that definitely clashes with his public persona and I am interested to see where it goes.

 

[Rat Lord]

Holy FUCK it's these assholes!

My mom adores this family and watches all their content, it was just so painful to watch a video with her, and trying to explain why this is exploitation of a mentally ill child got me nowhere.

My mom feels she can relate to the family cause my younger sibling got the 'tism, which, I find, is extremely disrespectful to my sibling because they actually have a fully functioning life with very minimal breakdowns. And I am willing to bet money the mass following these people have is from other parents who also have special needs kids and wanna feel special about it.

 

[Xenomorph]

How the fuck was this not interesting when the first thread started??

Glad it is back how can you not see that fat prick has tons of skeletons.