I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned but the person she's copying is @happylunchables, even the way she puts the food into the lunchbox. It's ridiculous! At least the lunches @happylunchables make are considered and kind of make sense, even if over the top and unnecessary. George's are just so odd and mismatched.
Thismummystory #4 Didn’t notice Coco fell, but at least there’s a heart on the babybel
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There's probably absolutely nothing unusual about cocko, the reason she presents like this on social media is probably because George needs the unweaned baby line to maintain a connection with a significant proportion of her followers. If coco presented, dressed, walked, talked, etc as a totally normal toddler who was still being given the boob 10 times a day this would blow out of the water the mutually-engaged-in-fiction between George and her followers that George has a baby, just like them. The subscriber base would then shrink. And that is not what George would want. So, it can't be allowed to happen.
All for show I reckon. As you say, it's not like she's forgotten. The other possibility is there's been a genuine change of heart. But I doubt that as few people are strong enough to take the view that they've messed up raising their older children
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ermwhaaaat
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I’ve not even been able to comment as i’ve been so so angry with that last reel, she is honestly a disgusting human and even worse mother but because she has money, buys pointless crap and dresses them in her h&m hauls it’s totally acceptable.
I honestly think it’s bordering on neglect, especially emotional neglect with grayson. And don’t even mention the fact she’s not even reaching out for help on Cocos clear delays.
I’m honestly infuriated by her, wish she’d find this page and know exactly what everyone thinks of her.
I honestly think it’s bordering on neglect, especially emotional neglect with grayson. And don’t even mention the fact she’s not even reaching out for help on Cocos clear delays.
I’m honestly infuriated by her, wish she’d find this page and know exactly what everyone thinks of her.
I'm presuming George has had grayson tested for ND? No of.course she hasn't. He is just a little boy exploring the world in a fun way. My older brother is autistic, he has struggled his whole life as has my parents. To label your child and put him in the category of children who generally have their issues is quite frankly disgusting. People will now be saying their kid is on the spectrum etc just because they like dressing up or something. It is completely different to asd. Most people don't want their child labelled....but she seems to relish the fact! Unless you have a had proper testing etc...please don't put a label on your child!
ermwhaaaat
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She sleep trained Coco for a while too, with foxandthemoon_sleep (amazing btw) on instagram. That was the only reason she realised coco was tongue tied, once coco started to show signs of improvement she ditched it as that was her USP to have a baby who didn’t sleep.
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She wants the label because it frees her of any responsibility.
ozblackcat
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The chances of her having any testing for that kid are slim to none. She wouldn’t have neglected to post aaalll about that if she had. I am genuinely appalled at her level of neglect now, this is frankly a new low. I don’t have ND kids but I am fucked off and disgusted that someone would use this label as a throwaway term, basically to excuse her crappy parenting. How easy is it now for her to do nothing else for that kid because he’s “neurodivergent”. duck she’s appalling. There are a few “big” accounts I can think of who are doing this with their toddlers and it’s disgraceful. Just stop being a tit mother you moron! Stop thinking parenting is buying tit and making pointless crap. And just get the duck off social media
I haven’t even seen the reel and I’m raging!!
I haven’t even seen the reel and I’m raging!!
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As a mother of two actually autistic kids (btw, I hate the way “neurodivergent” is so often used as a softly-softly euphemism for autistic, when it’s actually a huge umbrella term for lots of conditions) I’m grossed out by Instamums self-diagnosing their kids for clout and engagement.
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With regards to the whole ND thing, I think it’s a bit off for us to judge that. Although she films a lot during the day we don’t see the ins and outs of everything and the way Grayson is. He very well maybe ND. The waiting list is long so for her to label him now might be because they are on the waiting list for a diagnosis. Idk that’s my stance on it, I think we can’t really say he is or isn’t because we don’t know him
I know what you're saying but the point is what we've seen is really just normal toddler behaviour. My youngest lived in his spider man costume...I know a lot of children the same. She shows us everything about her life so another point would be if he was displaying more ND behaviours....she would totally be telling us! She shows a lot about her life and showing graysons supposed issues would be top of her list because it would up her engagement.
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I just think she seems to have started throwing this term in to footage of the kid having made no previous mention of it. I find it very very very unlikely she wouldn’t have mentioned having any form of appointment for him given that she shows everything else and is clearly happy to use it as a hashtag for engagement. Plus, she is also happy to show her lack of interest in him when he’s attempting to get her attention. The whole thing screams “I’m doing this for engagement” just like the constant tit sucking vids
but as you say I don’t know him or her. Thankfully
maytoseptember
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That is a good point. In my experience, no mother can raise the mildest concern about autistic traits without having people yell at her: that’s NORMAL, your child is NORMAL, what’s wrong with you?
I only follow George vaguely so can’t comment one way or another about Grayson. But her post the other week about her kids being too fussy to even enjoy KFC resonated. So maybe her kids are genuinely on the pathway to an autism assessment and she’s come to terms with it and that’s all good.
Still stand by my comment about Instamums using it for engagement though. There’s nothing particularly neurodivergent about dressing up. Lots of kids I know can’t abide fussy, scratchy costumes!
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I guess for me it goes the other way, I see it being used regularly as a term because then other parents can’t call them out and say “that’s not right!” I find it odd that she (or anyone) could use a medical term when there’s been no assessment. It wouldn’t happen for any other condition 
ultimately it makes no difference to my life whether all her kids have autism/neurodivergence. But I would bet good money she will not post anything that will help other parents about this other than fluffy trite reels for engagement
ultimately it makes no difference to my life whether all her kids have autism/neurodivergence. But I would bet good money she will not post anything that will help other parents about this other than fluffy trite reels for engagement
It is literally the reasonings that she lists for why he is apparently neurodivergent which really bother me. They are literally all normal toddler behaviours.
Some point earlier this year (or was it last year?) she used to say he couldn’t talk and yet he spoke and continues to speak perfectly fine. The other day she mentioned he was echolalic, which really bugged me because NO HE ISN’T!
Says him loving dressing up and wanting to wear his favourite character costumes to bed is an ND trait for an infant of his age? Please, is she trying to have me on? It’s really frustrating as a parent with an ND child to watch/listen to, extremely frustrating in fact.
I know the spectrum is absolutely huge but from what I’ve seen, and from what she has said herself, he is a perfectly NT infant and I find she hides behind this bullshit to cover up neglectful parenting and because he is probably the most strong willed of her four children, she struggles a little with him. Poor George can’t bare not being in control of any aspect of her life, including her kids, so it seems she’s grasped on to this idea he’s ‘different’. Heaven forbid something doesn’t go according to the plan she has in her head.
She has been called out before for making out that Grayson has special needs of some sort, if he had an official diagnosis or if she were waiting for referrals etc she would have said, we all know from the eating in front for her tv saga she can’t let tit go, she would be trying her hardest to prove it.
Some point earlier this year (or was it last year?) she used to say he couldn’t talk and yet he spoke and continues to speak perfectly fine. The other day she mentioned he was echolalic, which really bugged me because NO HE ISN’T!
Says him loving dressing up and wanting to wear his favourite character costumes to bed is an ND trait for an infant of his age? Please, is she trying to have me on? It’s really frustrating as a parent with an ND child to watch/listen to, extremely frustrating in fact.
I know the spectrum is absolutely huge but from what I’ve seen, and from what she has said herself, he is a perfectly NT infant and I find she hides behind this bullshit to cover up neglectful parenting and because he is probably the most strong willed of her four children, she struggles a little with him. Poor George can’t bare not being in control of any aspect of her life, including her kids, so it seems she’s grasped on to this idea he’s ‘different’. Heaven forbid something doesn’t go according to the plan she has in her head.
She has been called out before for making out that Grayson has special needs of some sort, if he had an official diagnosis or if she were waiting for referrals etc she would have said, we all know from the eating in front for her tv saga she can’t let tit go, she would be trying her hardest to prove it.
I agree, self-assessment is really important with ND, and we don't see enough of him to judge fully whether he does or doesn't have ND... but I could never imagine diagnosing my son and then so confidently posting about it to my 150k followers online... where is her sense of protection for him? This will follow him around now regardless of whether he gets a diagnosis or not. She has no sensitivity
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I wondered about that to start with. My issue with her using the self diagnosis ND is the list of reasons she gives: he insists on carrying his favourite thing in a backpack, wearing a costume, doesn't listen to instructions.
Those might well be PART of ND diagnosis for Greyson but on their own they make nothing but a standard toddler behaviour. I assume she would make a rather big deal of it if there were other reasons/investigations going on.
It is unfortunately quite common these days for instahuns to label their kids ND if they are slightly difficult/different.
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Normally I’d totally agree with this, but a number of things with her make me feel like this isn’t the case. Firstly that she posts 1000 stories a day with all of her innermost thoughts and feelings so it seems like she’d definitely share something like this. Also if I remember rightly she went through a whole thing before of worrying about him being delayed and wondering whether to seek support, then he seemed to have a bit of a language explosion and I don’t remember hearing anything else about it after that. Also it’s very fishy how she’s just deleting comments calling her out instead of addressing them.
This!!
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ermwhaaaat
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i think it’s totally different to self diagnosis in private than to post on social media to thousands labelling him as something that she’s more than likely had no professional assessment for. grayson is a totally different temperament to her other boys and i think this is why she struggles so much with him, she’s admitted herself that due lockdown etc she just gave in to ipads at the table, snacks on demand and now she wonders why he has no boundaries and this must be due to a ND?
her parenting and him being ditched for coco has a huge impact on him which she will never admit so wants to label her failings as something else.
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