About DDCA
Hello, my name is Adrienne Stuart and I am the mother of two children with developmental disabilities. Our medically impacted on, Jack, passed away in November of 2022, at the age of just eight and a half years old. Our other son, Charlie, is autistic/ADHD child who we are committed to parent without pity, punishments, or shame.
You won’t find links to “cures” therapies or other commodified products on this page. I have done my best to ensure that the resources listed are affirming of disabled people’s humanity, dignity, and autonomy. This is a living, breathing website so I will add more resources as I am able to do so. To guard my ability to be independent in my volunteer work creating policy proposals and community coalitions, I do not take money or contract with any state agency. This is in sharp contrast to other disability advocates who are too often silenced by the politics of their fundings streams.
Our journey as impacted parents and caregivers has been riddled with systemic and personal failures and frustrations, agonizing loss and heartbreak. Our family endeavors to turn our dissatisfaction and anguish into service of others because our community of impacted people deserves better.
We believe our children are perfect, just as they are. We believe our disabled children deserve everything non-disabled children deserve, including the right to a childhood, the right to grow up and make mistakes, access to general education teachers who believe it is their job to teach ALL students. We believe disabled children should expect freedom from behaviorist “interventions,” and unconditional love from the community. We believe disabled adults should be supported to do more than just work. The resources in this website are offered in alignment with these beliefs.
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
—Audre Lorde
The resources intend to address intersectionality of ableism, racism, homophobia, capitalism, transphobia, classism, misogeny, and other forms of oppression and marginalization we humans experience. During the time of this writing, (Spring 2025), our global community feels precious and exhausted. This fact can lead to burnout by all of us. I hope to provide resources we can all use and share to ensure we stay as energized and committed to an anti-ableist, anti-racist world, starting with all of us in Washington State.
