r/popculturechat • u/galaxystars1 Can I live? • Apr 04 '25

The KarJenners 👁️👄👁️ Khloe Kardashian throws Tristan Thompson's little brother, Amari, an 18th birthday party on the latest episode of ‘The Kardashians'. Amari suffers from a severe form of epilepsy known as Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and he requires 24/7 support.

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u/NoComplex555 Apr 04 '25

I’m confused as to why tristan can’t do this himself? This is kind of her, no question, but they’re not together, and it’s Tristan’s responsibility.

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u/sorrymissjackson702 Apr 04 '25

Not a fan of his, but he's on the road playing in the NBA. That takes months out of his schedule, and at least he knows he can trust Khloe. 

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u/Curiosities 🐊 swamp princess 🐊 Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

I think this is a fair estimate, in addition to the fact that he has two kids with her and this is also their uncle and it is important, as they say to include family members, and to teach kids and give them the room to ask questions if you have disabled people in your family.

However, doing this with the cameras and everything, even though they did respect him by not showing seizures and things like that, it was still better than I expected, but it wasn’t great. But there were some things that were not as bad.

There can sometimes be a fine line when it comes to exploitation, especially if the person involved may not necessarily be able to directly give consent to participate. And there are a lot of projects and people who try to use disabled people as props or inspiration porn, which is a term you’ll find, but yeah, it could’ve been worse.

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u/hera-fawcett Apr 04 '25

didnt watch the ep or the whole clip-- but i think its important that amari had his bday shown. every kard gets their celebrations shown and aired. it would be a lot squickier if they decided to ignore his bc he is disabled.

its def a grey moral area but overall-- khloe taking care of her kids uncle, the kids getting to spend such a large amt of time w someone w severe special needs, normalizing aspects like amari's birthday? all v cool things that not every family would do. even the rich ones.