Enabling Disabled Fat Kids I usually don't feel comfortable disclosing this too often out of fear of being frowned or discriminated at but I have autism. But I mention it because this story is related to it. So here's how it went. I usually try to avoid posting anything involving my family but it is related to FPH here. So here's what happened. My mom has a friend who like her, is from Vietnam. Knowing how those with mental disabilities are treated there, I could understand how her friend felt when she found out her son was born with autism. Fast forward to today, her son is chubby. Her excuse why she allowed her son to be a piglet was this; he throws a temper tantrum and his autism makes it difficult to get him to eat healthy and exercise. So my mom tried to convince her that if I can keep in shape and obtain my Master's degree in two years, then she can raise her son to be a functional member of society. Of course she said it's hard and that she doesn't want her son institutionalized. So I told my mom that in the United States, there are facilities that employ staff who are solely devoted to helping autistic children learn skills that will not only make them more productive in society but also more self-sufficient. In addition to that, such facilities provide additional support to empower parents of children with autism. I even told my mom that I have friends who do work in ABA or applied behavioral analysis for such institutions. So my mom said that she tried convincing that to her friend but she doesn't seem to trust outsiders with her son and she'd rather raise him as if he was hopelessly crippled. So now my mom is worried that her friend is going to raise a raging piglet with uncontrollable tantrums and eventually give up raising him to be a proper human being. If she doesn't give her son enough food, he would throw a loud huge tantrum. When she tries to convince him to exercise or lose weight, he refuses to listen. Even his dad has given up on him because in his words, it is simply too hard to control his autistic son and doesn't want to be publicly shamed just by bringing him outside his home. Apparently letting their son grow into an angry autistic fat pig is better than taking him to a special institution designed for his learning development. No wonder why fat disabled kids are always raised by parents who either coddle them or keep them away from the public due to their disabilities. That's how I see it.