This post is about Dan Seitz and his youtube channel "See the Seitz". I’ve been meaning to post about Dan and his channel for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it until now. There's quite a bit of info about him here, so this post will be a long one.
Someone posted a picture of his daughter Hudsyn on this thread about a year ago, but other than that, I don’t think I’ve seen her or her father mentioned here, which is kind of surprising.
Dan Seitz is a former flair bartender, now a vlogger and mostly stay at home father of 2 kids. He’s married and lives with his family in Kansas City, Missouri. His wife, Casey has a full time job and she seems to have been the family’s breadwinner for the majority of their marriage.
As mentioned, there are two children in the family. The youngest is a boy named Damek, currently, about 7 or 8 years old. He seems to be of more or less normal intelligence, but was tested for autism a while back. The results were never made clear, but he does get therapy, so he apparently does have some form of high functioning autism.
The oldest child, daughter Hudsyn, age 10 or 11, has severe global brain damage due to a birth injury and as I wrote earlier, her father Dan is a vlogger with a youtube channel. He includes different aspects of his life on his channel, but the main appeal are his videos of . Although she is only a few years shy of being a teen, she is totally dependent on the care of others and can do nothing for herself. Dan was once her main caretaker, but the family now has a paid aide to help out. Hudsyn cannot walk or even crawl. When she’s not in her wheelchair/stroller, she has to be carried from place to place. She cannot talk at all. She does appear to have some awareness of her environment and she can apparently smile voluntarily. She laughs on rare occasions and occasionally makes other vocalizations. She screams loudly when she is in pain, but most of the time she is totally silent.
She attends school and before the pandemic, a bus would pick her up and drop her off each week day. However, since she can't speak or even pick up a crayon or pencil, it is impossible to know exactly what, if anything she is learning or if she is really even capable of learning at all.
Despite the severity of her brain damage, that alone wouldn’t be enough to merit a mention in this thread. This is where Dan’s youtube channel comes in. He is one of these “inspiration porn” type of vloggers. He calls his viewers “Hopesters”. He exploits his daughter’s disability for views and has filmed several episodes where she is in agonizing pain. The excuse as always, is that this done is for educational purposes.
Another problematic issue is that like many parents that have both normal(or almost normal in this case) kids and veggie kids, he gives his damaged kid a lot more attention and affection than he gives his son. Obviously, a child who cannot do anything for themselves is going to need more attention then a kid who can feed themselves and use the bathroom on their own, but it goes beyond that giving the disabled child attention for her physical needs. When Dan talks to his daughter, he’s always sounds happy as a clam and is over the top affectionate towards her.
When he talks to his son or rather when his son talks to him, Dan will try to sound engaged, but much of the time he comes across as annoyed. To be truthful Damek can sometimes be an annoying kid, but that seems partially because he’s so desperate for attention. It is obvious that Dan favors his daughter over his son.
Youtube removed the channel’s comment section a while back, as they did with many other channels that feature children, but back when viewers could still comment, someone left a comment mentioning how Dan was so sweet to his daughter, but when his son said something to him, he just dismissed him and was really condescending towards him. Dan defended himself by claiming that his son gets “so much attention.”
After that, he seemed to try to be a bit nicer to Damek in the videos, but he still forgets and his true feelings towards his son will come out again.
Below are links to a few videos.
The first is a recent one where he’s giving TMI about one of Hudsyn’s recent health issues. The video also shows the way he often talks to Damek. When the kid wanted to take a break from his online occupational therapy for a minute because his pants were wet, his dad told him he had to sit there until therapy ended. When Damek protested, Dan let him get up, but as he often does, he sounded totally put off that his kid was bothering him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38uA2t-w7c&ab_channel=SeeTheSe
Next is a video from early last year when Hudsyn was in her school’s stage production and she had a seizure on stage. The picture of her that was posted in this thread last year came from that video.
It was quite a sad and pathetic situation. All the other kids were dressed up in costumes, singing, dancing, reading from the script, while poor Hudsyn was just laying almost motionless in her wheelchair. She occasionally lifted her head and looked around for a second or two before her strength gave out and she went limp and floppy again. When the singing started, she became startled and had a seizure. There was no reason for her to even be up there, but everyone has to be allowed to participate...even if they can’t do anything and even if it's detrimental to them. The school program starts at around 4:34 in the video and Hudsyn’s seizure begins around a minute later.
Ironically, if you didn’t know she was having a seizure, you might think she was trying to dance along to the music, so it almost looked like she was actually able to participate for a moment. After the program, Dan tells Hudsyn that she did a “Good Job!” in that annoying, exaggerated, fake sing/songy voice that he often uses when he’s talking to her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKKe7KOeNBA&t=532s&ab_channel=SeeTheSeitz
This next video shows Dan talking about how Hudsyn acquired the birth injury which resulted in her brain damage. It appears that Dan and Casey were planning to have a home birth when something went wrong. He doesnt specifically mention a home birth, but he explains it as Casey was laboring at home for 24 hours when the Dula finally said that they needed to go to the hospital. After they arrived, at some point the doctors discovered that Casey had a placental abruption, which means that her placenta had torn away from the uterine walls which caused Hudsyn’s brain to be deprived of oxygen long enough to cause catastrophic damage.
You all can be the judge on whether or not Dan and Casey are at fault for taking such a long time to go to the hospital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4TlB9xJdGk&t=41s&ab_channel=SeeTheSeitz
These next two videos show Hudsyn in the throes of some type of medical issues that caused her great distress. She appeared to be in horrific pain on both occasions. Dan held her and tried to comfort her, but couldn’t relieve her pain- although other than changing her position and at one point pressing down on her back with some kind of chiropractic looking maneuver, he really didnt seem to have any idea what to do. He did make sure to get the whole thing on camera though...both times. For education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVVUiU540U&ab_channel=SeeTheSeitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmIYn_efQU&t=845s&ab_channel=SeeTheSeitz
Finally, Dan demonstrates how he bathes Hudsyn, because apparently that’s something everyone needs to know. Again...for education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHI88xh_J4&ab_channel=SeeTheSeitz
There are quite a few more videos on the channel. Dan films some more of Hudsyn’s seizures, there are several trips to the doctor’s office and the ER. There are a few videos that feature that family’s free Disney World compliments of Make a Wish. If youre interested in looking at those and the other videos, once again the channel’s name is “
See the Seitz”. BTW, he also sells merchandise, of course.