Alethea Shapiro BLASTS Spouse Swap Producers for Enhancing Wendy Osefo to Look Like a ‘Savior’
Alethea Shapiro, who appeared alongside Wendy Osefo on final Sunday’s episode of Spouse Swap: The Actual Housewives Version, is asking out the present’s edit, accusing producers of portray Wendy as a “savior” whereas giving viewers a one-sided, deceptive narrative about who she actually is.
“I extremely advocate individuals watch it/rewatch it with the data that Bravo [and] Really Authentic determined to pursue a defamatory modifying job once they determined to take away my AuDHD [and] Neurodivergent context with respect to my burnout and the Neurodivergent philosophy of Low Demand Parenting,” Alethea wrote on her Instagram on November 12.
Though Alethea mentioned she selected to advertise the episode as a result of she had a “enjoyable expertise” and made “nice recollections … on and off display screen with the Osefo youngsters,” she took concern with the way in which her autism and ADHD diagnoses — and the way they form her parenting decisions — had been omitted fully.
“What was carried out within the modifying room with some unknown, suspect intent shouldn’t be my fault,” she wrote.
In extra movies, Alethea mentioned the episode relied on “mischaracterization and hijacking of a one-sided narrative that created a storyline each dangerous and unfaithful, framing Wendy as a savior whereas stripping me of depth and humanity.” She argued that eradicating her AuDHD id modified the that means of her parenting method altogether.
“By intentionally deleting or selecting to not join low-demand parenting to the realities of my neurodivergent life, Bravo additionally stripped it of its that means and depth,” she continued. “Utilizing a neurodivergent philosophy out of context felt exploitative and appropriative, lowering one thing rooted in lived expertise, incapacity, and care right into a shallow punchline. I think about many incapacity and PDA advocates will share my concern about seeing a framework designed to guard our neighborhood became a cartoon. This hurts my coronary heart, as a result of I might by no means deliberately carry hurt or embarrassment to the autism neighborhood that I like deeply and really feel protecting of.”
Alethea went on to clarify why she believes Bravo’s edits quantity to appropriation.
“It ought to be seen as a type of cultural appropriation, however by way of a incapacity lens quite than a racial or ethnic one,” she wrote. “Appropriation occurs when components of a marginalized group’s lived expertise, language, or framework are utilized by outsiders with out credit score, context, or respect, usually for leisure, revenue, or aesthetic worth.”
She added that low-demand parenting shouldn’t be merely a unusual type, however a apply grounded in trauma, advocacy, and incapacity assist.
“When media removes that neurodivergent context and reframes it as quirkiness or permissiveness, it’s taking possession of an concept born from incapacity tradition and twisting it into one thing unrecognizable for laughs or scores,” she mentioned. “That’s exploitation of a marginalized neighborhood’s lived framework for neurotypical consumption.” “In different phrases, it’s not simply modifying out of context. It’s modifying out of tradition, historical past, and objective behind it — which is strictly what appropriation does,” she added.
Spouse Swap: The Actual Housewives Version is at the moment streaming on Peacock.
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Avigail is an Leisure blogger at All About The Tea, who focuses on The Actual Housewives of Atlanta and The Actual Housewives of Potomac. Avigail has a background in advertising and marketing. She’s a Brooklynite dwelling within the Bahamas, with a ardour for journey, writing, actuality TV watching, popular culture and spoken phrase.
