In trying to quit TikTok (again) recently, I found somewhere worse: YouTube shorts. As the janky algorithm took me from right-wing podcast clips to GenAI alpha werewolf stories, clips of a film I'd never seen filtered through: 2022's Wildflower, starring Kiernan Shipka. She plays Bea, the non-disabled, neurotypical daughter of two adults with intellectual disabilities, Sharon and Derek. Their mothers are Loretta and Peg.

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