Please take a moment to email twitter to ask them to include hate against people with disabilities when reporting a violation. Thank you!
[email protected]— Natalie Weaver (@Nataliew1020) February 7, 2018
“It’s been very difficult, I’ve had days where I’m just crying. It’s interesting I shared my story with a reporter because I wanted to put pressure on Twitter. To have the person who was promoting eugenics and using my daughter’s image, I wanted them to take it down and I never imagined it would go viral like this. It has been difficult because this man was using my daughter in a hateful vile way. Which has now led to other reporters from right-wing media groups to change the narrative to fit their devices, agenda, they lie which opened me up to more attacks. So a story about hate and attacks on my child has now to lead to more hate and attacks on my child.”
Natalie is also fighting against the government and the legislation system. She is one of three co-founders of Advocates for Medically Fragile Children NC. Her goal is to make sure legislators, senators and the powers that be understand the impacts and hardships that go along with raising a disabled or fragile child.
She has helped me become the person I was always meant to be. She has pushed me to face all my fears and I’m better because of her. pic.twitter.com/Ybn8BqbGH9
— Natalie Weaver (@Nataliew1020) November 15, 2017
The mother-of-three explains: “They’re attacking me and I try not to respond, but sometimes there are just days where you can’t take it anymore and I feel like ‘I’m fighting for you too’. And if something happens to you tomorrow, though you just told me to kill my child, I would fight for you too. Anything could happen to any one of us and healthcare should be a human right.”
This is the harsh reality many families have to deal with and Natalie is doing her best to shine a light on this. This is something that Natalie deals about on the regular in her personal life along with what she’s passionate about fighting for. She’s put herself in the public eye and stands up for her daughter and anyone with disabilities. I think it’s funny the people who treat disabled people so unfairly can become disabled at any point, and guess what Natalie will be there advocating for you.
“Also, there are these outward attacks on my child because she’s disabled. ‘Kill her, put her out of her misery, she’s a waste of life’, those types of things. So you’ve got these loud vile attacks, but these quiet attacks from our administration to those with disabilities and so it just seems like more of an outwardly open expression of what has been quietly going on behind closed doors with our administration.”
Though we have to deal with a lot of pain and challenges in our life, we know the true meaning of happiness and living in the moment. All the bad makes all the good even more amazing. We appreciate the little things and we love our beautiful girl. We are so proud of her. pic.twitter.com/dUFZGZrPz9
— Natalie Weaver (@Nataliew1020) November 15, 2017