I’m writing this mother to mother, I am the mother to Andy’s only child who Andy’smanclub “is in memory of”. The club is potentially going to kill my little girl for years she has struggled with the consistent reminder in her face everywhere she goes on top of the grief she’s autistic. She’s been bullied in school at the fact her daddy killed himself due to her asd she can’t control her emotions when children wear the wristbands etc so thankfully her primary school has banned it as they have also recognised it as a damaging trigger but I’m terrified for high school as you can understand. Last month she tried taking her own life again running into a main road after seeing a car sticker and now under camhs crisis team as she wants to be with her dad. I have begged the family for years to change the name/logo but keep the club as it is a fantastic idea but apparently “you can’t change the name/it’s too much work” I have all the proof of this. Her camhs crisis support worker said to me she thought the club was amazing until meeting my daughter and seeing what damage it has/is doing to her but that’s the problem no one knows so I’m not keeping my mouth closed anymore I’ve done my best to protect her for the past 8 years with no support but the club is only growing bigger and so is she to the world.
I need to protect to my daughter so this is a plea mother to mother please stop promoting/driving round with the Andy’smanclub stickers although it might be helping other my innocent 10 year old daughter shouldn’t be at that cost.
feel free to share the dark truth and any recommendations… what would you do if it was your daughter ?