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So she's into drugs or has an abusive partner/family member. Or both. Not a great sign.

I won't call it understandable at all, and I can sympathize with almost anybody no matter what they've done under the right circumstances. The problem isn't Aleah, nor is it any of the hundreds of disabled people murdered by those they put their trust into. Disabled people are not burdens, nor...

Interesting question. In theory, it's possible. In practice, her mother doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would let her. I have to confess that the second I saw her picture I immediately went "yet another filicide", so I might be projecting things onto Cara, but the general wording of...

Severely disabled people can and do have relationships, though usually with other disabled people, and most of my experience on the topic is with people who are less cognitively disabled than they look (e.g. autistic people, who might be diagnosed with a severe intellectual disability but rarely...

Probably yet another case of bad parents. :( So many parents murder their disabled children in cold blood and get away with those hate crimes because the masses think disabled people are 'such terrible burdens'. As a disability rights activist, it destroys my heart every time it happens...and...

I'm pretty sure this Doe is Maria Guadalupe Adame-Lucas, who left her Minnesota home in May 2008. I sent the Doe Network a tip regarding this and am waiting to hear back. What little information on Maria there is: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/a/adame-lucas_maria.html...