Disabled Kids Are Not Content: Advocacy, Privacy & Consent Online with Sarah Todd Hammer
About this episode
The episode discusses the ethics and challenges of sharing the lives of disabled children online with advocacy and privacy considerations.
What happens when a child’s disability, diagnosis, medical journey, or private care needs become content online? In this episode of Parents Uncharted, Sarah Adams is joined by author, speaker, content creator, and disability advocate Sarah Todd Hammer for an honest conversation about disability representation, social media visibility, and the ethics of parents sharing their children’s lives online. After acquiring a spinal cord injury from acute flaccid myelitis at age eight, Sarah Todd began advocating for disability awareness as a child. Today, she uses her platform to educate others about disability, accessibility, inclusion, and what it means to share your own story on your own terms. Together, Sarah Adams and Sarah Todd discuss the highs and challenges of being a disabled creator online, the importance of authentic representation, common misconceptions about disability, and why disabled people should be at the centre of conversations that affect their community. They also examine one of the most difficult questions in the disability community: when does sharing a child’s disability online become exploitation rather than advocacy? This conversation explores medical privacy…
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