u/novaonthespectrum

So apparently, one of the Slimelife Huns had to cancel her Rome trip due to a medical emergency, and Slimelife reimbursed the cost of the trip after it had been canceled. What I found interesting about this is that, if Slimelife is reimbursing HER the cost of the flight, does that mean that they need to pay for these earned trips out of their own pockets? I figured that since it's literally a prize, it's an all-expenses-paid type of thing. Even if it's just the flight they are paying for, it at least means that Priscilla is using Abbie's money for at least part of these "business trips" and it's not entirely fronted by the company at all. I'm unfamiliar with Slimelife so does anyone know exactly what and how much they pay for when someone wins these trips?

This is the first time I've seen a vlog open up with Asa already in an absolutely stank mood (I'm sure there are others, this is just the first one I've seen). He says something about having "the worst clientele ever for his professional driving job???" And I have no idea what the hell he means by that. Anyway, he's pissed because Abbie's running late for school, and he's bound and determined to make that Abbie's problem. "We're running late. For no good reason, just running late. You just walk out the house and worry about yourself." When she stands by the car and waits for him, he snarks, "What, are you waiting for an invitation? Lock in! Let's go!" Then he complains about her music. She's going through an obsession with Lean On Me. "Oh yeah, that's a good song, Ab. It's even better the 400th time." In the next frame, he says that Abbie's ruined several songs for them P says Asa likes a song until Abbie likes it. They really do just hate EVERY single thing about their daughter.

After the sponsorship shill and taking Abbie to school on Friday, there's another hard cut and Asa says his "heart is BROKEN." He tells a story that opens up with Priscilla being an absolute snot on the phone with him because he wasn't coming in for dinner fast enough; "Would you hurry up?! I have a meeting I have to go to in 10 minutes! Will you hurry up so I can make mine?!" SHE DOESN'T HAVE A JOB! She was just getting pissy because she wanted to get to her own food as soon as possible. And this story doesn't make her sound cute or funny, it makes her sound like the oversized brat that she is. Anyway, it ended with Priscilla only getting to have one taco and we all know damn well the tantrum that resulted from that. "Priscilla only normally eats one taco anyway" oh sure she does. 🙄So I'm guessing she erupted like a volcano and he had to reframe the story to make her sound selfless and loving; "She was waiting for her whole family to eat before she would eat herself! It breaks my heart!"

Abbie's been emptying every open box she sees around the house now. It's either the same compulsion as the dumping or she just wants the box to tear up. Asa says they've had a conversation about it and he sounds annoyed that she didn't take said conversation to heart. He's still in his usual brand of total denial and the ONLY way she's going to stop dumping things is if they stop leaving things around for her to dump. But while barking at her to clean up the boxes he reveals that he FINALLY BOUGHT HER TOYS? Oh no, nevermind, he bought sensory toys to give to kids for Halloween but not allow his own daughter to play with. 😡My god, what is wrong with him?! Also he lets on that he's gonna be the "no candy house" this Halloween and it's too bad kids don't egg and TP houses for that anymore, 'cause I would've loved to see that. These days though? They'd just tell eachother not to go to that house because he doesn't give out any treats. I find it appalling that he's willing to buy toys for other kids but deny his own daughter.

Asa's complaining about gas prices, that it's $219 to fill his truck but it's okay because he's just going to use Abbie's money anyway. Whose fault is it that he bought a big luxury truck during a time when gas prices are at an all time high? He complains that they can't do the RV trip they totally planned on doing because it would cost $8000 to fuel the RV. We all know the real reason is because his prized pig can't fit in the RV anymore. He's got the $8000 (of Abbie's money).

So the truck is fixed. This is the only thing he's ever mentioned about the accident where a biker got either seriously injured or killed, and it's likely the only update we're ever going to get about it.

I seriously had to sit through this entire vlog to get to what the title is actually about: there was a leak in the basement, and Priscilla immediately started crying because the Christmas decorations were ruined. I honestly thought this was going to come up far earlier in the vlog because I thought it was the reason for Asa's stanky attitude, but nah, he just had a stanky attitude for no reason at all I guess. Anyway he doesn't even talk about it for too long even though it was what he titled the vlog about. There was a leak, he fixed it, the end. "Life is hard. And life will always be hard. It never stops being hard." Yes, life is hard and never stops being hard when you're a rich, entitled, spoiled "influencer" living off of the back of your disabled daughter.

I thought JSA didn't allow filming? I guess they made an exception for this vlog. Priscilla got to shadow Abbie at her "vocational program" today. Because they allowed her to record for a moment, we get to see exactly what goes on at this alleged "vocational training program" that is totally not just a daycare.

Right off the bat, we see Abbie just playing with the same table tasks she has at home: the wood block puzzle, sorting baskets, and a pencil jar. We didn't get to see much, but Asa clarifies that yes, she spends her time at school basically doing the table tasks because it's "busy work" that keeps her occupied. Which is just fine, and which is genuinely what is best for Abbie--but it is NOT VOCATIONAL TRAINING. This is NOT A VOCATIONAL PROGRAM and they need to quit blowing smoke up the humper's asses about it. Abbie enjoys the table tasks and they do keep her occupied and focused and allow her to retain the skills she already has. They are not at all conducive to training for employment. And that's OKAY!

Asa goes on about going on another "business trip" after they just came back from one this weekend. And of course a Jags game. They are literally never at home with this girl anymore and that's probably for the best. Excellent pet owners allowing Zuko to eat the paper shreds...

Abbie's school event was called "Donuts with Grownups," so Asa had to buy donuts for Priscilla to bring. And then decided to buy a whole new set of donuts just for the family to have at home. Because that's exactly what they all need, more sweets and junk after already having sweets and junk. 🙄

A fan sent Abbie a new "sensory-friendly" detangler hairbrush, probably because they were sick and tired of seeing how messy and unkempt that poor girl's hair is, always getting in her eyes and mouth. She hasn't had a haircut ever since they gave her bangs last schoolyear. Priscilla said earlier this year that they were going to grow her hair out and "I don't care if you don't agree with me, I'm her mom." It continues to be very sad that strangers watching care more about this girl than her own parents. Asa gives it to Priscilla to test, and Priscilla is very quick to mention that SHE doesn't have sensory issues. In the words of the great Peter Griffin, "OH MY GOD, WHO. THE HELL. CARES?"

Asa brings up the topic of the previous 2 vlogs (I was too sick to bother recapping the previous one), in which Abbie dumped out more drinks that were left around the house even though they KNOW that she dumps out any drinks she finds, and yet they continue to never put the drinks out of her reach. He said that commenters were telling him that Abbie can't have OCD because she "lives in mess" and OCD is a condition that thrives on neatness and order, which isn't necessarily true as there are different subtypes. He explains that Abbie's OCD presents itself as how she can't leave something alone when she sees it--a cup on the counter MUST get dumped. Pillows on the couch MUST be thrown on the floor. A vase CANNOT be on a shelf, it ends up somewhere else entirely. And she drank Isaiah's coffee creamer and dumped the rest out. So if she does have OCD she seems to have the purely-compulsive type, and her behaviors seem to be getting more and more erratic lately since this is the third vlog about it. Priscilla explains that it extends to if she sees water drops on the shower curtain and she has to wipe them away completely and won't stop until they're all gone. Asa says that it is a comorbidity with autism and "with.......uh, neurodevelopmental diagnosis." He really, really just cannot ever bring himself to just say "IDD." 🤦‍♀️

In the latest vlog Priscilla is going on about how "Katie" (according to the terrible Youtube captions) called Asa and Isaiah out for picking on her jeans, saying they were too old and that they made her look old. Asa is immediately flabbergasted, turning to Isaiah and going "Did you pick on her about her jeans? Nobody picked on her about her jeans." Asa then says smugly, "Well, note to self, we can't make jokes with Katie, she takes it too personally." Honestly I found this triggering because my own mother LOVES to bully and then accuse me of "not being able to joke." He then says that the person is just making it up. So I guess this is live footage of how they react when someone gets tired of their bullshit and claps back. "That didn't happen, and if it did, it wasn't that bad" etc etc etc. Narcissist's Prayer in action.

I can tell you firsthand from dealing with a person like this all my life: I can now see why the rest of the family and "friends" don't bother to confront or try to reason with these people. It doesn't work. You cannot try to reason with people who will NEVER do anything wrong in their own mind, and if they do do something wrong, simply say "It didn't happen and they made it up." It is IMPOSSIBLE for people with this mindset to take any kind of accountability for their actions. They never will. Nothing will make them see or understand consequences. And unfortunately the only one who will suffer is Abbie.

I really can't be bothered with the whole vlog today, but the Maasses are going on yet another trip (I guess for Slimelife) and Abbie will be staying with Aunt Cindy and her friends (Summer/Kylie I guess). Just a reminder that Aunt Cindy recently moved to Jackonsville from SC because she realized these two would never stop running off on self-indulgent trips and she needed to be close to Abbie...

After a hard cut, Asa reveals that Abbie dumped all of Priscilla's coffee creamers into the sink. Because Priscilla was dumb enough to leave them lying around in Abbie's reach, knowing her daughter has a compulsion to dump things she sees in containers. Then there's a long story about being taken advantage of at a gas station, the Obligatory Cute Puppy Moment, and then we cut to Priscilla sitting very tensely in her studio. "I am doing this with NO COFFEE because of our SWEET LITTLE GIRL." No, she is doing this with no coffee because she doesn't have the ability to drink black coffee without full-sugar creamers, and also because after 21 years they still haven't realized that they can't leave containers of liquid around. Asa explains why he can't punish Abbie for this because she will never be able to understand why she is being disciplined or what she did wrong, or be able to change her behavior as a result of the discipline. I agree, he can't punish her, but he can keep these things locked up and out of her reach. And honestly, both of them have already been punishing Abbie for 21 years.

Asa has been plainly ignoring and neglecting Sandy, their golden retriever, ever since she left the "cute little puppy" phase and they got Rizzo. Now they have Zuko and Asa treats Sandy as an "old lady," pushing her to the background and not involving her in the play with the rest of the dogs as much. There's even a vlog where Sandy is trying to play and Asa throws the ball to Rizzo instead of her. And she's often vying for attention just to be rejected. It's heartbreaking to see. Sandy was Asa's apology present to Cilla after she found out he had an affair and another child. Everytime they get another pet the old pet gets pushed to the background. Even Rizzo is starting to be demoted to an extra now that they have Zuko.

Sandy is not an "old lady" at 6 years old. She's still got plenty of life in her and she still displays playful behavior that's just ignored now. The recent passing of an Internet-famous retriever at a fairly young age made me think about this: do the Maasses ever take Sandy for the yearly cancer screenings they should be taking a retriever for? Golden retrievers are notorious for developing cancer and it reduces the breed lifespan drastically, retrievers should always be screened for cancer every year past age 5. Do you really think they bother to do this for Sandy? Do they bother to get any of their pets breed-specific care? Their careless neglect and their "ooh! Shiny new puppy!" attitude could end up shortening her life. They make me so mad.

This bizarre incident has lived rent free in my head for the past 7 years and I suppose the whole "undiagnosed autism" thing might finally provide an explanation. For my last spring break my final semester of college, we went to Baltimore (Inner Harbor area). My parents hate vacations, mainly because they're always complaining they never get to do what THEY want to do (except they always have the option to do whatever they want, literally nothing is stopping them, they just choose not to and this is no different). So while I was coming up with the itinerary I said that we will alternate days; one day we'll do something I want to do, the next something they want to do, and we'll alternate. Well, they never bothered to come up with anything for their itinerary and got very bothered about it, so I just said okay, you guys can decide when we're there.

So they heard about this giant grocery store and market and said they wanted to pay that a visit and do some shopping. Okay, that's cool. What else do you want to do?

Nothing.

My dad's a huge baseball fan so I told him we could dedicate an entire day to Oriole Field. "Nah, no thanks." Okay, he likes history and historical areas and there's Fort McHenry. I went to Fort McHenry and he stayed in the lobby while I explored the entire fort. I asked him several times if he wanted to come see the fort and was he sure he just wanted to sit there in the lobby? He said no, and yes. My mom didn't seem to want to do anything at all and when I gave her suggestions for things she might like, she rejected them all and lamented that, "There ain't nothing for me to do here!" She had no interest in....anything at all. Neither of them seemed to have interest in anything except that damn grocery store. So we did go to the grocery store, which was in a really out of the way spot and I noticed it was attached to a whole market and cafe. I thought it would be nice to explore the rest of the market and maybe grab a bite. "No, we're just going to the store and that's it." So I kind of expected this market to be some monumental multi-level market full of foods you can't get anywhere else, ethnic foods, a massive pastry station, etc. I mean, the way they were hyping this place up to be their ONLY stop on the entire vacation, I expected something GRAND.

But no. It really was just a regular grocery store. And they really did only buy stuff we could've gotten back home. And that's all they wanted to do for the entire week we stayed there. I thankfully got to do and see everything on my itinerary but I was just baffled that we could be in a major city like that, with so much to do that we couldn't do anywhere else, and they really did just want to go to a fucking grocery store???

This is going to be long, because the vlog itself is long (35 minutes!). First of all, oh dear god. Abbie's got on one of her mother's horrific striped shorts sets. 🤮Why can't P just content herself with making HERSELF look like an idiot? Why does she have to do it to her daughter too? Poor girl looks like Smee from Peter Pan if he rolled himself in Pepto Bismol. I know Abbie doesn't care about appearances but that doesn't mean she has to be stuffed into such unflattering clothing.

Remember how in the last vlog, Asa claimed Abbie doesn't like swinging anymore and that's why she needs to rip paper? Well she sure had a good time swinging in that hammock! So he was BSing. She likes swinging, he doesn't like having to be there supervising her while she swings. Asa says that Abbie's childhood was a blur to him because "he only focused on the autism." This is just so sad; most parents treasure their children's childhood, reminisce over it, and long for it when it's over. But Asa says he doesn't even remember most of Abbie's childhood, quickly tacking on "not because she was neglected." No, it's because she was raised entirely by her grandparents back then.

"Don't grow up, kids. It's a trap. You think you wanna grow up, you wanna be an adult, but it's a trap." That's a surprisingly honest admission that Asa never wanted to be an adult. But we already knew that; he was forced to be an adult when he got his ONS pregnant, and her parents hunted him down to take responsibility. If they'd never had Isaiah and Abbie, I have a feeling Asa and Priscilla would be living out their best teenage/college age lives forever with no children and responsibilities to get in the way.

So this is yet another vlog about "What's gonna happen to Abbie when we're gone?" Apparently people have been asking him that question a lot. He says they have trusts set up and "Isaiah is a big part of that," but Priscilla says "Isaiah will not be responsible for her everyday care" and I call complete bullshit. She says that Isaiah will be in charge of her financially, but will not be taking part in her daily care, and Abbie will not be living with him. I call complete and utter BULLSHIT because if that's the case, where will she be living? She CANNOT live on her own! At all! There is zero possibility of Abbie living by herself. Who will be responsible for the 24-hour care that she will need for the rest of her life! They claim it won't be Isaiah, but they won't disclose who it will be.

And then comes the part that makes me mad: Asa says that Summer is listed as "the backup plan" for Abbie's lifelong care, and that she was added as such back in 2019. I know that Summer cares about Abbie, but this is a girl who met Abbie and the Maasses as a teenager at Surfers for Autism. She was about 13 or 14 years old, when she bonded with Abbie as a friend. And the Maasses saw an opportunity to pull this child into their orbit and spend the next few years essentially training her as Abbie's unpaid respite and additional caregiver, even moving her into their house for a while during the pandemic. No matter how much Summer truly cares about Abbie, this is predatory. And now she's on the hook for Abbie's lifelong care as well? Summer would have been only 20 when this arrangement was made back in 2019...still VERY young to be making a decision like that, after years of it being expected of her simply because she bonded with Abbie as a friend. This doesn't sit right with me at all.

Abbie is modeling the horrible football outfit her mom is selling on the Boutique of Fail. They make her go to school in these clothes, likely in an attempt to reign in potential customers. These outfits have NO market but especially not in a school for autism. Football fans want team merch, not generic "GAME DAY" bullcrap. Asa reveals that Aunt Cindy has moved from SC to Jacksonville to take care of Abbie full time (he didn't say that's the reason, but we know that's the reason). She is now the designated babysitter whenever the Maassholes want to go out and drink. It makes me wonder exactly what Aunt Cindy thinks of the way these two treat that girl and if she was motivated to move closer for that reason...

So we get to the "job" part of the video because once again, Asa cannot just accept that employment is not in the cards for his daughter with profound IDD. Abbie is "working" at the boutique, unbagging items and rubbing her fingers on her nose while touching customers' clothing, wandering around and ripping the tissue paper. Really? This is her "first job" that he so proudly displayed in the thumbnail? "She shreds the tissue paper and puts it in the mail and sends it to people!" Asa has to use hand-over-hand to get Abbie to put a sticker on the package and put the package in the box. She's not working, but she is having fun, but when she expresses as much, Asa snaps "Stop laughing! That means you're gonna do something bad!" Uh, no it doesn't? It means she's having the time of her life with that tissue paper and she's actually ENJOYING HERSELF. The fact that he associates that with "doing something bad" is heartbreaking and infuriating. Priscilla wants Abbie to package jewelry, which she can't manage without multiple prompt and eventually Asa doing it for her. Same with the shipping labels and hanging up the clothes. And I guess she's where Abbie gets it from, because she is also rubbing her fingers all over her nose before touching customers' orders. 🤮

So Asa is thrilled that the boutique is going to be Abbie's "first job." Because he remains completely delusional and won't let himself accept that HE did the majority of Abbie's work while she ripped paper...which is the reality of what "employment" for Abbie would look like. You know what, whatever. If Abbie gets the opportunity to crinkle and rip all sorts of different papers and Asa wants to believe this is her "job," at least she gets to enjoy herself. But I have a feeling he and P will find any possible way to make it completely unfun for her.

Boring ahh new vlog but the one thing that stands out to me is that Asa decided to call us all out for criticizing Abbie's paper shredding. He says she goes through different fixations (as autistics do) where she used to have a swing but then just stopped, she used to have a trampoline but then just stopped, and now it's the paper shredding. Asa says in a smarmy tone that we only "lose our minds" (his words) about the paper shredding because it's "not normal," and that in reality the paper shredding is just like the swinging. And then he turns his snark on Abbie, saying that she "never actually put any effort into the swinging" and that "she just sat there and we pushed." Priscilla says she still has access to her work boxes and table tasks but the only one I've seen in a vlog is that block puzzle. If she still plays with her table tasks why don't they vlog it? They vlog everything else.

Here is my personal issue with the paper shredding: I understand that the paper shredding gives Abbie sensory input and she likes to do it. I'm not saying she should be made to STOP shredding paper. My issue with it is that it seems to be ALL she does when she's at home. Abbie can, and does stop shredding paper when she's actually provided with other activities to do; when she was at Summer's just last week Summer had mentioned that she never once asked for any paper. When she's at school, she's not shredding paper. When she's at camp, she's rarely shredding paper (maybe they give her a bag to shred at night when all the daily activities are over). But when she's at home, all it is is paper, paper, paper because she does not HAVE anything else to do, and she should have other things to do, and that's what bothers me about it. Abbie should have activities and toys and games to play with. And if she really does have her work boxes and table tasks, again, why don't we see it? I can only comment on what I see, not what I don't see.

My other issue is that they've made Abbie's entire personality and "brand" about the paper. Her ONLY BIRTHDAY GIFT this year was a stack of paper bags! She gets paper bags for Christmas. Asa had the Autism on the Seas lady draw up a "Paper Princess" award for her at the cruise and for Christmas she got a dumb sweatshirt that said "World's Best Cardboard Box Breaker" (where does one even acquire a shirt like that?). They make her entire character about ripping paper, almost as if they themselves are minimizing her to nothing but paper shredding. And that's not okay. Abbie is more than paper and cardboard and her life and daily activities should reflect that.

Asa's still running this narrative of Abbie becoming independent one day, no matter how many vlogs and posts he's made previously about how "this is forever" "this is for life" "Abbie will need care forever." He knows that the humpers keep coming back to see Abbie's "progress" that she hasn't made in years. Many of them are special needs themselves or know someone with special needs and he gives them false hope.

Looks like Asa was riding P's ass about her Amazon shopping but then turned the camera on so she had to pretend to smile and laugh. I will be so for real with you, this segment makes Priscilla look actually er "simple" for lack of a better term. She bought lighters off Amazon and thought they would come pre-filled with fluid and ready to use, and seems completely unable to piece together why shipping lighters pre-filled with fluid across the country would be a disaster waiting to happen. She then asks, "But can you...buy fuel?" Uh, YES, Priscilla, I am pretty sure you can buy lighter fluid and I am pretty sure you have done that before because you have a BBQ grill. Asa explains that when P buys stuff off Amazon she doesn't bother looking at the product description, specifications, or any of that, she just sees the name and the number of stars and clicks "add to cart." So basically she just consooms.

Priscilla tries to get Abbie to cook pasta and juice lemons. She manages to open the box of pasta (even if she ends up ripping it in half 😅) and pour it into the pot, but lemon juicing is something that she has nowhere NEAR the the motor skills for. I don't understand why they are always demanding more and more. If she can do the pasta box that's just fine, but they can never just be thankful for small victories. She gets bored and tries to wander off during the lemon juicing. P doesn't accept it. Not only that, but she presents her with even MORE lemons after she sits through the first squeeze. And then she has to stir the pasta too. It's never enough.

My GOD I ABSOLUTELY HATE WHEN ASA TALKS FOR ABBIE. Like SHUT UP, you won't ever know what Abbie would really say so stop using her to speak for yourself! It's like a child playing with a doll, except she's not a doll she's a living, breathing, thinking human being!

Asa goes on yet another tangent about how Abbie is independent even though her independence "looks different," and the people who tell him she'll never be independent are just stupid meanie poopyheads. I mean, he's not entirely wrong. Her independence does look different...in that she will never have true independence and no matter how many pasta boxes she learns to open and how many lemon peels she can put in the trash, there will NEVER be a day in her life when she will not require 24/7 care and supervision. Yes, she can open a pasta box. No, this does not mean that she will ever reach the level where she can cook her own pasta on the stove.

We were ordering pizza and honestly I hate ordering pizza with her because she always has to make it needlessly complicated for no reason. She was mad that I said no to plain cheese I guess, because I hate plain cheese and I would have to eat it too. She said she wanted vegetarian (peppers, olives, mushrooms) and I told her that was fine, I'd order half with vegetarian and half with whatever topping I wanted.

She then got all pouty and said "Nevermind. I'll order my OWN pizza." Even though I would get her what she wanted. Whatever, I told her to go ahead and do that. I ordered my own pizza with my own toppings and she...never ordered anything. She decided she didn't WANT pizza anymore and then threw another tantrum because "I ain't ordering a DAMN thing from THAT pizza restaurant! I will NEVER order from >restaurant name<!" I asked her why, because she had never had a problem with that restaurant before that I knew of, and she said it's because they made ONE mistake and forgot to cheese the other side of her eggplant sub she ordered the other day. "SO I WILL NEVER, EVER ORDER FROM >RESTAURANT NAME< AGAIN!" and she was acting pissy like I somehow should've known that.

This is how she acts when she's about to get what she wants. Same as when she doesn't get what she want. It never ends.

Tonight's vlog was basically Summer's vlog, as it was about Abbie's weekend sleepover with Summer, interspersed with Asa's vlogs about his weekend with Isaiah while Priscilla is out on yet another "business" trip. The difference in Abbie's attitude and demeanor with Summer versus at home is like NIGHT AND DAY, and it is because Summer is actually willing to engage with Abbie and center the weekend and all of the activities around her. Summer's dad is staying with them and he plays his guitar for Abbie. They make breakfast together and Summer finds a way to involve Abbie in the whole process, then Summer tells her they're going to go to a local art market and the beach. Summer's dad provides a soothing guitar soundtrack the entire time. I genuinely LIKE this vlog.

They go to the art market and walk around for a while, and Summer confirms that the guitar guy is her dad and he's staying with her. Apparently Abbie got stressed out by all the activity at the market so Summer, instead of insisting she MUST stay there and grabbing her and pulling her back in, takes her to a park to walk around and decompress. Then it cuts to them at Chick-fil-A, before hanging out and chilling to music at Summer's place. There's no nonsense of shoving cardboard and paper at her and running off to talk to a camera. They're having a little living room dance party together. Summer is also NOT afraid to tell Abbie no to some of her requests--"No, you already had a Sprite Zero!" "You've had two coffees today already." Yes Summer has her flaws too (which seem to come out when she's around the Maasholes), but this vlog shows how much she genuinely cares about Abbie and wants to engage with her on her own level. A stark contrast to her parents forcing her to go along with whatever they want for content.

And it's better content! Like I said, I genuinely enjoyed watching this vlog.

I didn't get a chance to do this yesterday, I was super busy. Strap in because this is a doozy.

Priscilla is making what Isaiah calls "a holiday dinner." The occassion? "Well, it's back to school! We're celebrating because was survived the summer!" Ah yes, you survived having to be in close proximity to your daughter for 3 entire months (excluding when she was at camp or with respite). She says that "a friend" texted her and said "I don't know how you do it, my kids go to a program 2 days a week!" I don't think there was a friend, I think she's reading our comments on how Abbie should be in a program. She thinks it's bragging rights for her that she's a "good parent" who doesn't send Abbie to those terrible "warehouses" (Asa's words) but instead just neglects the hell out of her at home. It's not. It's REALLY not.

Apparently Priscilla had to be told personally that she is not to bring peanut products or seafood to school because of an allergy this year, because Priscilla brings Abbie hibachi and seafood boil and other such niceties to brag that Abbie can have fancier lunches than others. I do NOT have a problem with a parent packing luxurious lunches for their kid, but Priscilla doesn't do it because this is what Abbie prefers. She does it specifically to flex on the other kids that Abbie's mother is so awesome that she can send Abbie to school with seafood boil and bento boxes, and theirs aren't. It's parents like her that are causing schools to eliminate all luxury items in the name of "equalizing." (I don't agree with this practice AT ALL but that's not what this thread is about.)

We get a full example of how Priscilla and Asa use that "wait. Wait. Wait" ABA command to get her to do whatever they want. She's trying to take pictures of Abbie's first day outfit and keeps barking "Wait. Wait. Wait." until the pictures and videos are over. This is how they get her to stand compliant for their content, whether or not she actually hates it. They've literally programmed her to perform.

Then finally, we get to the part of the accident. It cuts to Asa's truck breaking down, and he and Abbie are safely on the side of the road. Holy shit, that's an actual busy freeway! The other person's recap didn't give me the full image of it. A bus driver offers them a ride, but Asa refuses it because he can't film it for content if he and Abbie just get on the bus to safety. He says that his wife is showing up to take his daughter to school and he'll get a tow truck. And then he takes Abbie, who is KNOWN TO ELOPE, across that busy ass freeway. He has to grab her and pull her away from the road. He tells her they're just going to go to Target, which is ACROSS the freeway, and he's standing there RECORDING and LOOKING AT HIS PHONE the entire time he does it. He says he hopes his truck doesn't get hit, while taking his vulnerable daughter across a busy freeway. His vulnerable daughter, who keeps trying to break away and dart off into the road! It is so much worse than it sounded. Finally, they reach a crosswalk and he says they're going to stand there and wait for Mom while he calls a tow truck. When she shows up, Asa remarks that Abbie's excited to see Mom when in reality she was terrified by that freeway walk and she's relieved to see anybody and that it's over.

After spending most of that dangerous romp across the freeway worrying about if his truck would get hit, Asa's truck does, in fact, get hit by a motorcyclist, who ends up in what Asa calls "the worst case scenario"...though he says she just has a broken leg, "worst case scenario" implies much worse than that. He quickly tacks on an "I hope she's okay" before going on about how horrible the whole ordeal was FOR HIMSELF. Himself, who got out alive without a single scratch and wasn't even involved in the accident at all. Himself, who precariously took his autistic daughter across a busy freeway even though he could've taken the ride from the bus driver, all because the latter would mean he wouldn't get content. We have a similar freeway (complete with a Target) near me and there is no way in HELL I would EVER attempt to cross that thing in ANY circumstance, nor would anyone who takes care of me ever attempt to get me across it. In the end, Asa says that he is thankful...because he's okay? Because his daughter's okay? Because neither one of them got hit while crossing that freeway? No, he's thankful that "it was only his truck and not his Harley."

And I just realized, he documented all of this and posted it online; that should be so fun for him if the motorcyclist or her family ends up coming after him for his culpability in the accident!

I can't with these people.

We were all out shopping with my sister in law and my mom admitted that she believes that when kids do things that look "off" to others or that might make others judge them or "give them looks," it's a parent's responsibility to "break" that kid until they stop doing whatever it is. This includes interests, behaviors, appearances, clothing, play, etc. This is how she parented me for my entire childhood but she wasn't successful. The fact that she admitted she believes it's appropriate to "break" a child is appalling. And what started this conversation? My SIL picked up a pink backpack with strawberries on it and jokingly asked if she should buy it for her godson for school. I said "Sure, if he likes that kind of thing." That's when my mom chimed in and said, "HELL NO! If he likes it, that's too damn bad! You break that out of him!" To her, a pink backpack with strawberries would be an appropriate reason to BREAK a child!

It explains everything about how she treated me as a child, but again, she wasn't successful with me. I've always been unapologetically my weirdo self. I know she hates that, especially since she ended her sentence about "breaking" a kid with "Or else they end up like YOU."

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Priscilla makes a post similar to this every freaking year. We know Abbie is in no such "vocational program" and that they plan to send her to school indefinitely for the foreseeable future and that's why she will always have "first days of school" for life. Honestly? It's impractical. I get that she needs a place to go, but Abbie is taking up a spot in that school that could go to an autistic kid who will be able to take part in the transition program and graduate. Anyway, boo hoo she was supposed to be "at a different point in life" except she and Asa both admitted that "different point" was supposed to be endless hedonism and eating and drinking around the world. Forgive me for not displaying any sympathy after that came straight out of the horse's mouth.

So "first day of school" for life? Do they plan to keep her in "school" straight through her 30s? Will they be dressing her up in a first day of school outfit and taking FB pictures and sending her off to a school full of kids and teens when she's in her 40s? While the other kids head to the actual vocational program, transitional program, and graduation will Abbie still be sitting there as their only remaining student from the Class of 2023? All while paying 60 thousand dollars a year to take up a space in a highly rated, highly sought after school known as one of the best schools for autism in the country. She should honestly be in a day center. That's her future, whether they want to accept it or not. They need to stop thinking of it as such a shameful thing as if "forever first days of school" is any better. Even college students and grad students will leave school eventually!

In tonight's vlog, Asa explains the trajectory for Abbie's foreseeable future: she's going to remain in JSA (her "vocational program") "until she is ready to leave" and then they plan to "travel full time" after Abbie is done with JSA, whenever that is. In reality, it's going to be when they can't pay for it anymore. Keeping Abbie in JSA beyond her 22nd birthday will cost 60 thousand dollars a year, and the Youtube and Slimelife money is drying up and the boutique is dead in the water. They're living in a dreamworld! How exactly do they plan to spend their life traveling when they KNOW they're going to have to pay for Abbie's school from here on out?! Do they really think that the Youtube channel and the grifting is going to keep them afloat forever?

Asa admits to overwhelming Abbie by taking her to her JSA open house and then immediately taking her to a loud, active restaurant and she had a meltdown. She had absolutely no time to decompress from the socialization at JSA. He knows this, even explains exactly why it happened, and insisted upon doing it anyway. Or maybe P did, because nothing gets inbetween her and her feeding trough.

Asa talks about the Medicaid waiver that pays for Abbie's school until she's 22. That waiver is going to go away after this year, so he plans on switching her to a program for IDD! Now would you look at that! When money is on the line Asa is TOTALLY willing to admit that Abbie has IDD, but when it comes to grifting mindless humpers, she only has autism and nothing else. Well, if it pays for her to stay at JSA it is nothing but a benefit to Abbie. But I wonder exactly what their endgame is. Abbie will never be developmentally "ready" to graduate JSA, so when exactly do they plan to start their fabulous life of eating and drinking internationally (you KNOW that's all they travel for)?

I don't watch the lives. I have to rely on transcripts from Tattlers and people here if anything happens in a live, because I'm not willing to waste hours listening to that woman talk about nothing. At least with the vlogs I can do stuff in the background or pause the vlog and come back to it later. But apparently in a live last night Priscilla said she doesn't want to be friends with or socialize with autism moms because it reminds her that she is a mother of an autistic daughter and she just wants to escape from that. She thinks autism parents do nothing but talk about autism and their children all day and "she'd have nothing in common with them besides autism." And so this is why she runs off on trips with her fake ass Slimelife friends. Because when she's with them she doesn't have to think about being Abbie's mother. She really does hate her daughter and hates the reality her daughter created for her. She hates EVERYTHING about having to be a mother to Abbie.

The real reason is because no decent parent of an autistic child would want to hang out with her or her husband. They'd see how the two of them treat Abbie and immediately nope out of there.

Asa rented a raft for their trip to Crab Island, he says he got it specifically for Abbie and Cilla. And I know exactly why he got it: to show off exactly how much Cilla sinks it in that water. As is so beautifully demonstrated throughout this vlog! Asa's pratfall onto that raft was so hilarious I had to watch it 2 more times. COMEDY GOLD!

Of course they're drinking. And drinking. And drinking. And eating. Crab Island has a fast food flotilla where you can buy Chick Fil A and other fast food from the boats. I really cannot get over the absolute crater Cilla is leaving in that raft. Abbie's having a fun time playing in the water and I'm glad she gets to have some fun while her family acts like idiots as usual. Priscilla nearly knocks herself off the raft trying to get away from Abbie when she climbs up next to her. It's just shameful to see how repulsed she is by her own child.

Asa rambles like a creep about how all of the boats are run by hot girls, and "that's the scam. That's the hustle." No, the scam is monetizing a channel with your autistic daughter at the forefront and forcing her into uncomfortable situations for content and money. The scam is running a dropship boutique where you upsell ugly clothes that are available all over Amazon and Tiktok Shop. The scam is trying to convince gullible viewers how much you love your daughter who you clearly, visibly hate.

Asa is encouraging Abbie to go to the bathroom in the water. And recording it. Because her dignity means absolutely nothing to him. And he just stealthily admitted that they've all been pissing in that water while several other families swim around them. I wonder if they pee in the pool too...which brings me to another point. If he's encouraging Abbie to pee in the water how is she going to differentiate between this and the pool? She won't, that's how.

They all come back sunburnt, but it's okay because "There's only so much sunscreen can do when you're out in the sun for 7 and a half hours straight." Because you are supposed to REAPPLY IT. FREQUENTLY. EVERY FEW HOURS!

What is it with this guy and pee?! The next day they're out in jellyfish-infested waters, and Asa tells Isaiah, "I'll pee on you, son!" Except that doesn't work and it's an old wives' tale (you're actually supposed to put shaving cream and cold water on the sting). Isaiah seems to know this and tells him as much, except Asa just won't let it drop. "No, it does work. You need me to pee on you." Isaiah just tells him "You just want to justify letting someone else pee on you, that's what that is." Isaiah should snark his dad more often, he's good at it in the rare moments his spine actually shows.

Asa deems Destin "one of the most autism friendly vacation spots." I can't confirm or deny because none of these videos had anything to do with autism. Okaloosa County is on my list of potential places I would like to move to when I can finally nope out of New Jersey, though.

I was waiting VERY patiently for the vlog of the Maasholes' trip to Destin/Crab Island. So apparently, all four of them are going to be crammed into one room because Priscilla "is so good at picking rooms." No, she should actually never be allowed to pick a room ever again for the rest of her life. Not only that, but the room is apparently smelly and musty and got terrible reviews online; but Asa rushes in by explaining that ALL Florida beachfront hotels are smelly and musty and there's "no such thing as a fancy beachfront hotel in Florida," before highfiving P and assuring her "you did good, babe!" I wouldn't be surprised if he patted her on the head and gave her a cookie. They then proceed to film somebody else's wedding on the beach, while the both of them coo "Awww! Soooo sweeet!" I'm sure that couple would be THRILLED to find out that their moment is being recorded and posted to SOMEONE ELSE'S vlog!

Asa says to Abbie in the smuggest, smarmiest tone ever, "Are we bad parents? Yeah, I'm sorry." I'm sure if she could talk, she would have a LOT to say in response to that. It's because she's asking for paper and they didn't bring her paper bags with them. Asa launches into his absolutely infuriating habit of imagining what Abbie would say to him, before suddenly snapping at her "Listen, YOU didn't pack anything! WE packed everything for you!" So not only does he put words in Abbie's mouth, but he uses it as an excuse to go off on her for the imaginary conversations he has with her in his head. Absolutely disgusting behavior. Anyway, Isaiah ends up bringing her paper because while the two of them were bullshitting and mocking her, he actually went off and found some for her.

Looks like all guests over 21 get special bar passes for free drinks. Isaiah hypes up Abbie about, "See? We don't have to pay for drinks! And we can go back as many times as we want!" Acting like he's seriously considering the possibility of taking Abbie out drinking. Then Asa does it again, saying that "Abbie is saying 'I don't like this idea, brother'" and prompting Isaiah and Asa to both call her a nerd. "I'm just your cool other brother trying to make you do illegal things!" (even though, as Asa and Priscilla are quick to remind them, it's not even illegal) "Doing illegal things is cool sometimes!" This tells me everything I need to know about just how much of a d-bag this guy has become after years of life under the roofs of the King and Queen of D-Bags. If that's his true mindset, I hope he enjoys his legal trouble. This is the Golden Boy that the humpers have hailed as a living saint for years, everyone.

The next morning Asa says "We have a problem!" And Isaiah won't follow the script, prompting an annoying reprimand from Asa for deviating from the vlog formula. And it took him an entire forever to explain what the actual "problem" is, which turns out that they brought too big of a cooler for the drinks or something. Then they go to a toy store, because apparently only Isaiah and Asa are allowed to shop for toys, but if Abbie does it Priscilla stands there and cries her eyes out and does everything in her power to keep said toys away from her. Isaiah buys a dinosaur shovel and his parents both make fun of him for it, which Isaiah doesn't seem to give a damn about (or is used to), but you know what they DON'T do? They don't take the shovel away from him and lock it up in a closet or toss it aside on P's desk full of junk! Priscilla learns the joy of playing with a toy when she flies a kite. She seems genuinely giddy. "Oh, that's so fun! Look, Isaiah! Ohhh, I got a kite!" It would be a nice moment, especially knowing she wasn't allowed to play with toys as a kid, if she wasn't so insistent on denying her daughter this same joy! Has she ever thought for one second that maybe they could be playing with toys together and she could heal her own inner child while also SHARING that joy with her daughter? Oh wait, "Priscilla" and "thought" do not belong in the same sentence.

So we get to the source of the clickbait thumbnail, which made us all think that Abbie had stolen a stranger's fries again like she tends to do with food. In reality, they met a fan from Alabama on the beach, who offered the fries to Abbie. So yes, she's eating "a stranger's fries" but she didn't go up and steal them. Isaiah builds a sand castle with his dinosaur shovel and Abbie keeps messing it up by taking the sand to play with. 😅

Not much else happens after this part of the vlog. They just go to an Irish pub, because of course they do: vacations are all about eating and drinking and nothing else.

Abbie has a lot of behaviors in tonight's vlog. In the beginning Asa's already put out with her though we didn't get to see exactly what she did. He's just saying, "She's driving me crazy, she's driving US crazy" and asking Abbie if she needs to go to a swim. Priscilla tries to steal the attention away from Abbie by talking about her glasses sitting askew, and Abbie goes up and pokes her to get the attention back. Priscilla responds by poking her back until she walks away.

In the car, Abbie yeets her shoes into the front seat. Asa says, "Excuse you! I don't want your shoes!" and throws them right back...just BARELY avoiding hitting her right in the face!! While he launches into the world's most boring lecture about grass seeding, Abbie stims vigorously in the background. I wonder if her behaviors would improve if he would actually spend some time engaging with HER instead of with his invisible audience in the phone.

Abbie uses her AAC to ask for Sprite Zero, and Asa sounds irritated because, "I thought we were going to Dutch Bros!" They're still so desperate for that Dutch Bros sponsorship that will never come. If it hasn't come by now, it never will! The days of the Dunkin' brand deal are long over. They go to the post office to ship for P's boutique and it looks like Abbie has figured out taking the package to the mail slot and dropping it in, on her own! Even though Asa does explain she needed a bit of direction off camera, I'm genuinely proud of her. 👏Moreso than her own father is, it seems, because he rants about how "In a perfect world, we can just let her walk in on her own and drop the mail off in the box." He can't even allow her to have this small victory without tearing her down! What happened to trying to get her to be as independent AS POSSIBLE. Now here she is going to do a task as independently as possible, and he has to go on about how it's not "perfect!" 😡

Apparently Abbie's got cabin fever now that she's home from camp. She wants to go out and do things and NOT RIP PAPER ON THE COUCH. She ends up in a sour mood when they come home from whatever outing they're on. BECAUSE SHE IS GOING ABSOLUTELY STIR-CRAZY IN THAT HOUSE WHERE THERE IS NOTHING TO DO UNLESS THE CAMERA IS ON.

During dinner, Asa says that Isaiah did not choose his career path because of Abbie. Just that it was his "life experience" and so he ended up majoring in a field that matches his life experience. Which means that...he chose his career path because of Abbie. She was the inspiration. I don't get why he wants to hide that because it's not a shameful thing. Lots of people with disabled family members end up in social work and working with people with disabilities. This is just Asa trying to cover his ass about how they expect him to take over as Abbie's caregiver. "People might forget that Isaiah is a whole human, independently." Because he sure as hell doesn't act like it. Abbie's doing a lot of screaming in this video. She is so done with her father spending more time with the phone than with her.

At the end, Asa foreshadows that there's going to be "one last hurrah" in Crab Island, Florida. I'm sure that's going to be a fun trainwreck to watch. That's really nice of him to mock his daughter while she's "speaking" to him in the only way she can. 😡

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