Should "adult baby" Stanley Thornton recieve Social Security disability payments?

If he's got a bank account, he's not much of a baby, is he.

He claims that because of his fetish he is disabled and unable to work. So far outside of his fetish he has no other symptoms of the mentally challenged, so no he doesn't meet the requirements for disability benefits. From the sounds of it a R congress critter is making him an example of disability fraud.

I'm not an expert on 'adult babies' (to say the least) but I always thought it was a weird sex thing; like David Vitter... From what I saw (maybe because it was basic cable) this dude's deal didn't look like it was a sex thing at all. Just toddling around to a giant high chair, going in a giant crib, etc.

Weird, to be sure- in fact, downright fucking surreal-- but not sexual.


I just think it's funny that he wants to be a baby, but he's still using money.

What is his disability? Everyone I know who has tried to get SSI has had a VERY hard time getting it.

This guy (as Taboo as he may be) might actually have a genuine claim to getting the money.

illnesses he might have a valid claim. I wonder if the "baby' thing is in the DSM-IV?

I'm not going to try and diagnose him.

There are firms who build their entire practice around SSI fraud, they are just such nuisances to the Social Security Administration that they just go along with their cases so not to fight them.

If his only problem is his ABY lifestyle, presumably not. But I'm not convinced that we know enough about his situation to be offering well-informed responses to this question.

Video - Nat Geo via Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/236129/taboo-adult-baby

Video - Gawker: http://gawker.com/5803413/stanley-the-adult-baby-investigated-for-social-security-fraud

Article - Tom Coburn Takes on Adult Babies
http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110519/pl_atlantic/tomcoburntakesadultbabies37924_1

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What They Say the Fight's About: Coburn is suspicious of Thornton's disability claims and wants to make sure that his Supplemental Security Income benefits are warranted before allowing the government to continue funding his adult baby lifestyle. Thornton argues that the NatGeo special was misleading and that he really deserves the funds he's receiving.

What the Fight's Really About: Coburn may be using Thornton's public exposure as a vehicle through which to argue his own ideas about Social Security benefits. However, according to Stanley's biography on his adult baby website, Stanley attributes his lifestyle, as well as his inability to work, to a heart condition caused by post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from years of childhood abuse. This fight may also be about just how weird many non-adult babies find the adult baby phenomenon.
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There's a high squick factor to the ABDL thing. Easy to point at it and get people worked up and freaked out. I think the linked article nails it. There seems to be a likely agenda.

The work is less honest, but he would make a better income.

They can be any age, race, gender or class, democrat or republican but they are all drains on society.

Those welfare queens in Cadillacs are the scourge of the Earth. Thank Gawd Rush Limbaugh warned us against that great evil back in the 90's. :eyes:

This country is full of parasites, they are the billion dollar corporations who draw on public infrastructure and American human capital yet pay no taxes, they are the tow-truck drivers running towing scams and people like diaper boy here who in his unproductive lifetime will draw huge sums in SSI and other assistance while contributing nothing because by all appearances he is just an asshole gaming the system. They might suck at different rates but they are all equally worthless presences on the planet.

from the article it sounds like the guy is really messed up mentally and emotionally. I don't know if he should get SSI or whatever... but as a fellow member of society.. it do think we should provide some kind of help for whatever trauma he did experience that led him to his odd behavior. Labeling him as disabled and handing him a check might not be the best answer - maybe he needs counseling and a workable path toward wellness... can we do that? do we have programs for that? i don't know - I don't have the answers.. but what I do know is that he is probably an exception and not a norm for those that receive SSI. There will always be isolated cases in any program that can become a story and be used against an entire program that helps many. When the focus is narrowed... we tend to lose sight of the bigger picture. SSI is a lifeline to many, many people in our society that need it. It can always be reformed, improved and refined, but one case of a guy that looks like an easy punching bag for some bullies isn't a cause for bringing down a societally beneficial program.

It never stop, does it? :eyes:

SSI fraud on the other hand is an enormous industry all its own.

I'm simply far too uninformed.

Seems like focusing on his Adult Baby issues is just added sensationalism/titilation that muddies the waters in his case.