“…then she shouldn’t be here with regular kids”

Jesus Christ. Now definitely want to fight her.

as a disabled person hearing that mom say the blue dress girl shouldn't be in a competition with "regular" kids is BEYOND offensive. i don't understand how a competition that's supposed to be fun turned into such a negative & toxic environment for everyone involved. the poor kids. :(

How dare she yell shit during the special needs girl's moment. That is just pure evil.

"I didn't know she was disabled"
So its fine to yell at kids if they aren't disabled? For someone who's a stickler for the rules, basic sportsmanship sees foreign to her

Throwing out the insult "White Trash" at a toddler beauty pageant feels like calling someone a weeb at an anime convention.

"if she's special needs she probably shouldn't be at a regular kids pagent" They are literal CHILDREN. That woman is just... eugh. Some people shouldn't be parents.

As someone who is autistic, and was extremely nonverbal as a child, I'm used to parents doing the whole "they shouldn't be here doing things with the 'normal' kids" line. I would get bullied and harassed by both students and parents from things like cheerleading. I didn't want to wear a skirt, so we asked for me to wear pants. The amount of parents losing their shit OVER A 10 YEAR OLD NOT WANTING TO WEAR A SKIRT , just to further isolate an already lonely kid was disgusting.

My jaw literally dropped when she said, "if she's truly special needs she probably shouldn't be at a regular kids pagent." Just wow...

8:27 this kind of thing actually happens. my uncle knows a guy that’s a reporter/photographer for a local newspaper, and he was once covering a pageant for little girls in the area. He was taking photos, and had a press pass. He started talking to the several other men in the back taking photos, assuming they were parents. They said they weren’t, and they also didn’t have press passes. He started looking into it and there have been strange men taking photos that were not related to the contestants or any form of press at EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. You can’t tell me the people that run these pageants don’t know they’re there. It’s so scary.

As someone who has ASD (formerly diagnosed Asperger’s), it was 100% the parents like that mom who made my life a living hell while growing up. Every time in school, when eventually they’d find out from their kids that I’d have a slightly modified test or was allowed not to participate in certain gym activities (I have a really hard time doing crossed brain activities. I couldn’t even tie my shoes decently until I was 24, and even still I have trouble to this day!) they would flip their lids, exactly like in the video. Even after they found out why I’d been receiving “special treatment” they would either get defensive saying things like “All kids are special!/If she’s so handicapped, why isn’t she in a special Ed class or school?!” like this mom did or just completely stuck with the “that’s not a real thing!/If she’s autistic then everyone’s autistic!” Notion. Always, always, ALWAYS after this would happen, a good majority of their kids would start bullying me/avoid and bad mouth me at school. I had to quit public school and become homeschooled because of mom’s like her, so I hope her daughter grows up to be far more intelligent and far more successful than her pitiful mother ever has or will be :/ !

the only “beauty” competition i’ve ever seen and enjoyed is the one at my local fair. anybody of any age can join and wear whatever they want, and show whatever talent they want and it such actual wholesome fun. last year a grandpa/granddaughter duo won with their duet of somewhere over the rainbow dressed as the lion and dorothy :)

“Don’t play the special needs card, every kid is special” Are you honestly joking 😃

That woman in the pink pisses me off so bad. Saying that the little girl shouldn't be at a "regular kids'" pageant is so ignorant.

For the little girl with some special needs: I thought it was common knowlige that, when it comes to kids sports, children with physical or mental handicaps are often allowed extra “help” if that means they can compete within their own age-class.

I mean, if an equestrian tween who are for example paralyzed in their legs competes in the regular pony classes, it is completely normal that they get to use their voice to call out commands and make use of an extra long “whip” in order to communicate with their horse properly, despite it otherwise being against the rules/frowned upon.

And if you see an issue with it, you dont yell it at the kid while they are in the arena. You ask to speak with one of the judges.

What is wrong with people!?

"With her ginger child” said with such hostility she was probably the cheerleader in school who bullied everyone else and probably enables her kid to bully.

Brings back memories of being bullied in high school because of my hair colour.

Also she was incredibly lucky that no one ACTUALLY hit her after the comment about the special needs child

i appreciate when parents of neuro-divergent kids actually care about what their kid is into/like & support them. like if that girl likes dressing up & twirling on stage go for it! lots of us get told not to express ourselves so it just makes me smile <3 (even though i'm not a personal fan of these pageants)

I feel so bad for the little blue-dressed girl just there to have fun. Imagine some random ass woman screaming in the middle of your turn when you're only there to dance around in a dress for your mom.

We let my daughter do ONE pageant. She wanted to do it around age 5-6. These children’s pageants always look a little busted, however you have to have headshots and the whole 9 yards for these just like an adult pageant. Only difference is,  the drama is about 500 times worse. You add in all these insecure parents that are trying to validate themselves or their kids and it gets really gross, really fast!

omg i lost it at the "if she is special needs than she shouldnt be in a regular kids pageant". as an adult with Autism i grew up being told i shouldnt be in the normal things. I just wanted to be treated like a human. alot of things dont offend me but that right there boiled my blood
:(

That line, special needs children shouldn't be allowed to do activities with "normal" children, really pissed me off! As a mum to two girls on the spectrum, they always feel somewhat different and to segregate children based on a disability, is totally disgusting. Also, I absolutely hate child beauty pageants, they dress them up to look like adults and imo they are just sexualising children. Just let kids be kids and have fun, all that pressure to be "perfect" will lead to issues later on in life.