I'm absolutely mortified

[Potentialnewdiagnosis]

Not an aibu but need reassurance that I'm not a terribly horrible person. So backstory On a city break for the Christmas markets and was saying to my mam when we arrived that I was expecting performer's and alot more street entertainment but there's none.

This morning I popped down the main shopping strip and in the distance I heard christmas music and a guy randomly singing Christmas songs but the words were all wrong and he couldn't sing so I started to take a video to send to my mum with the caption "well I did complain there was no Christmas music" but as I got closer I realised he potentially had special needs from a distance it wasn't obvious I straight away deleted the video but I feel awful that I videod someone with special needs like that. I honestly thought it was a young lad chancing his arm for a few bob

I am absolutely mortified but genuinely didn't know he had a disability

Whilst it’s probably not something I’d have done either way, I’m amazed (but not surprised in the slightest) by the sanctimonious responses on here.

Disability or not, filming strangers in public for the express purpose of making fun of them is fairly obviously shitty behaviour.

Social media has normalised this kind of thing but take a step back and consider how genuinely cruel and dehumanising it is to treat people this way. It’s good you’ve had a realisation that it’s poor behaviour but please recognise that it’s a horrible thing to do whether someone has a visible disability or not.

The fact that some posters are being called sanctimonious for not agreeing with what the OP was trying to do in the first place, says it all really. Oh well.

Oh I'm getting the gist of the new movement being pushed by the woke left now.

Stealth brag with about something wicked you have done, through self-flagellation and self-chastisement and a performance of enlightenment, a statement of how much more ‘aware’ you are than people to the right of you.

Await people calling you out and wait for the other saviours of your new found faith to call them out sanctimonious!

If I grabbed a microphone and started singing on my local high street then I would have to anticipate that people would make comments to each other about the standard of my performance. I would have imposed myself onto them in a public setting so I would be fair game to some extent.

Obviously it wouldn't be nice for people to start shouting mean things or posting clips on the internet because that would be humiliating. A comment or video shared privately is totally different though because I would have no idea about what had been said and it wouldn't be a source of embarrassment or humiliation for me.

@h733 I do love a good knock knock joke. I've never felt the urge to film a complete stranger and share the video with family or friends with the sole purpose to mock them, I guess I'm just way too sanctimonious to do something so childish and shitty.

Pretty mean to film anyone with a view to mocking them, special needs or not.
You're not a horrible person but imho you did behave horribly.

Oh well - you won't do it again. Lesson learnt.

Why did you feel the need to tell anyone this? What made you think ‘I must post this on mumsnet!’