Posted on 08/09/2024 11:00:23 PM PDT by Morgana
A disabled social media influencer has spoken out about mean comments he received on an Instagram post where he joked about not qualifying for the Olympics.
Shane Burcaw, who runs a successful YouTube channel with his wife Hannah, was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, according to his Tumblr page.
The genetic disease weakens muscles in the shoulders, hips, thighs and upper back, making it difficult for many sufferers to move.
On their various social platforms, Shane and Hannah post videos about their life as a couple and advocacy videos trying to spread acceptance about relationships like theirs.
One of their latest videos, clearly meant to be a joke, shows Hannah dunking Shane into a pool with a caption underneath that reads: 'Sorry to announce I did not qualify for the 2024 Us Olympic diving team.'
Instead of getting laughs from his 594,000 followers on Instagram, Shane instead was slammed with a deluge of hateful comments, many of which questioned why Hannah decides to be with him.
'What does she get out of this relationship? I'm curious cause there's no way anyone's attracted to him,' one person wrote.
'If he can pull than I'm just cooked,' another commented.
Someone else suggested that the only way he could have attracted her was if he had a lot of money.
Another commenter came to the exact opposite conclusion, that she was using his disability to get tax write offs.
Shane and Hannah have been married for three years and together for eight, according to a profile of the influencer couple in Business Insider.
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I have not been truly “in Love” for a long time, but I suspect if you have something special and beautiful going on with someone, best not to show everyone everything about it online. Some will be jealous.Some will copy whatever the biggest mouths say about you, pro or con.
I have followed Shane and Hannah for some time now - their nicknames for each other are Squirmy and Grubbs. (She says he is squirmy and he says she has grubby hands. 😊)
Their love is real and their bond is so tight. These two absolutely hit life’s jackpot with each other. I have read of so many disabled people and their family members who are given hope that love is a possibility in spite of their conditions - so many have given up on ever finding love. These two show the difficulties of managing a severe disability and how they have to navigate through red tape and life in general. Wonderful people - all they do is spread love, hope and laughter. ❤️
That’s nice. Apparently, this kind of semi public life works for them.
Theirs is a truly inspiring story.
[But “It’s always important to wash your vegetables,” is Larry the Cable Guy funny]
WHO KNEW?!?
bookmark
I can’t believe they have almost 600,000 followers. I am sure the “followers” must have real work to do.
and I can believe people wondering why she’s with this guy.
They don’t have to be nasty about it though.
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