Alecia Shapiro accuses producer of swapping wives to edit Wendy Osefo to appear like a ‘savior’
Alecia Shapiro, who appeared with Wendy Osefo on final Sunday’s episode of Spouse Swap: The Actual Housewives, has criticized the present’s enhancing and accused producers of portray Wendy as a “savior” whereas giving viewers a one-sided and deceptive story about who Wendy actually is.
“I extremely suggest you watch this film or watch it once more figuring out that it’s Bravo. [and] Really Authentic determined to maneuver ahead with their defamatory editorial work once they determined to take away my AuDHD. [and] My neurodivergent background on burnout and my neurodivergent philosophy of low-demand parenting,” Alecia wrote on her Instagram on November twelfth.
Alecia stated she determined to advertise the episode as a result of it was a “enjoyable expertise” and created “nice recollections with Osefo’s youngsters on and off display screen,” however took concern with the entire omission of how autism and ADHD are recognized and the way they form her parenting selections.
“What was executed within the enhancing room with unknown and questionable intentions is just not my fault,” she wrote.
In a further video, Alecia stated the episode relied on “a one-sided narrative misrepresentation and hijacking that frames Wendy as a savior whereas making a dangerous and false storyline, robbing me of depth and humanity.” She argued that eradicating her AuDHD id fully modified the which means of her parenting strategy.
“By deliberately eradicating or selecting to not join low-demand parenting to the fact of my neurodivergent life, Bravo additionally stripped it of its which means and depth,” she continued. “We felt that utilizing neurodivergent philosophies out of context was exploitative and appropriative, lowering one thing rooted in lived expertise, incapacity, and care right into a flimsy punchline. A framework designed to guard our communities is being caricatured. I feel many disabled individuals and PDA advocates have the identical considerations as me, as a result of I’d by no means deliberately trigger hurt or embarrassment to the autistic group that I deeply love and really feel protected by.
Alecia went on to clarify why she believes Bravo’s edit constitutes plagiarism.
“This needs to be seen as a type of cultural appropriation, however not via the lens of race or ethnicity, however via the lens of incapacity,” she wrote. “Appropriation happens when parts of the lived experiences, language, and frameworks of marginalized teams are utilized by outsiders with out credit score, context, or respect, typically for functions of leisure, revenue, or aesthetic worth.”
She added that low-demand parenting isn’t just a unusual model, however a follow grounded in trauma, advocacy, and incapacity help.
“When the media removes its neurodivergent context and reframes it as eccentricity and tolerance, it takes possession of concepts born from incapacity tradition and twists them into one thing that can not be acknowledged as laughter or recognition,” she stated. “It’s the usage of the framework of the lives of marginalized communities for neurotypical consumption.” “In different phrases, it is not simply enhancing out of context. It is enhancing out of tradition, historical past and the aim behind it. That is what appropriation is all about,” she added.
Spouse Swap: The Actual Housewives Version is at present streaming on Peacock.
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Abigail is an leisure blogger at All About The Tea, specializing in The Actual Housewives of Atlanta and The Actual Housewives of Potomac. Abigail has a background in advertising and marketing. She is a Brooklynite residing within the Bahamas with a ardour for journey, writing, watching actuality TV, popular culture, and the spoken phrase.
