People Presume Themself of the Right to Presume Me an Unfit Parent
People Presume Themself of the Right to Presume Me an Unfit Parent
please know that the time for forgiveness is past us
I am contacting your firm to request pro-bono legal representation in a civil rights and family law matter involving the deprivation of my fundamental parental rights. This case addresses a series of family court actions and restraining orders that severed contact with my daughter by treating a documented cognitive disability as willful non-compliance, rather than a condition requiring statutory accommodation.
Because my disability directly caused the complete loss of my livelihood, my benefits, and my housing, I am currently destitute and urgently require pro-bono legal assistance to access the justice system and fight for my daughter.
The factual background, legal framework, and attached supporting documentation are detailed below.
I. The Core Facts of the Case
* The Disability: I suffer from severe executive dysfunction, a cognitive impairment that leaves me functionally unable to handle basic daily planning, organization, and legal tasks.
* The Request for Help: Between 2024 and 2026, I made explicit public pleas for a formal schizophrenia-spectrum diagnosis and community support to my family, state agencies, and the Washington Governor’s office.
* The Systemic Denial: Washington State’s behavioral health system operates on a crisis model that avoids formal long-term diagnoses. Consequently, I was left too disabled to function but completely denied the formal diagnoses and community services needed to protect myself.
* The Resulting Destitution: Because of my unaccommodated disability, I was unable to attend a mandatory administrative hearing. The state subsequently revoked my disabled unemployment benefits, driving me into immediate homelessness and stripping away my financial resources.
* The Loss of My Child: Family court systems and hostile actors weaponized my resulting homelessness and unaccommodated medical symptoms. The courts issued restrictive restraining orders (including actions in Washington and Wisconsin involving my ex-partner, Jordan Fitzgerald) that treated my disability as willful bad behavior, completely cutting off all contact with my daughter.
II. Simple Legal Framework & Precedents
* Constitutional Parental Rights: Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a parent’s right to their child is a fundamental liberty interest (Troxel v. Granville, 2000). The family courts violated my due process rights by taking my daughter away without evaluating my actual parental fitness or accommodating my cognitive barriers.
* Federal Disability Protections: Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act require state courts and federally funded programs to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled individuals. Failing to diagnose and support me, which resulted in my forced isolation from my family and community, violates the Supreme Court’s Olmstead integration mandate. This aligns with regional precedents like M.R. v. Dreyfus (9th Cir. 2011) and C.F. v. Lashway (W.D. Wash.).
* Intersectional Bias: Under the Equal Protection Clause, court systems cannot use a parent’s identity or disability as a reason to deny custody. The convergence of my status as an undiagnosed vulnerable adult and a transgender woman created an unfair legal environment where my medical symptoms were pathologized as unsafe behavioral choices.
* State Vulnerable Adult Law: Under the Washington Vulnerable Adult Protection Act (RCW 74.34), the total failure of entities with a duty of care to provide necessary safety and health services constitutes unlawful abandonment, neglect, and punishment.
III. Attached Personal Documents
I have attached the following evidentiary files to facilitate your review. Please refer to these files by their names verbatim:
* “1. One Page Legal Summary.pdf”: A concise overview of the ADA Title II/Olmstead claims and resulting domestic harms.
* “2. Chronological Timeline.pdf” (also titled “Chronological Timeline of Pleas Neglect and Punishment as an Undiagnosed Vulnerable_Adult.pdf”): A chronological index of public pleas for help, systemic non-response, and court actions from 2024–2026.
* “3. Washington State’s Systemic Discouragement of Diagnosis - Olmstead Violations.pdf” (also titled “Washington State’s Systemic Discouragement of Schizophrenia Diagnosis and Resulting ADA Title II Olmstea Violations.pdf”): A legal memorandum analyzing Washington’s crisis-stabilization structural gaps and relevant class precedents.
* “4. Familial, Community, & Court Punishment Under the Washington Vulnerable Adult Protection Act RCW 74 34).pdf”: A statutory analysis of abandonment and neglect claims under RCW 74.34.
* “5. Conflated Conditions and Diagnostic Standards The Need for Clear Schizophrenia Spectrum_Standards.pdf”: A memorandum detailing clinical symptom conflation and its role in the denial of specialized community services.
* “Executive Dysfunction as Documented Impairment Public Evidence of Significant Disability.pdf”: A catalog of public video and audio evidence establishing my functional limitations under RCW 74.34.020.
IV. Required Remedies and Need for Pro-Bono Counsel
Because my disability cost me my housing and my entire income, I am entirely dependent on pro-bono counsel to seek the following remedies:
* An Accommodated Path to Family Reunification: Court-ordered, disability-accommodated visitation and a structured pathway to restore my parental relationship with my daughter.
* Systemic Medical Mandates: A court order requiring immediate, comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and integrated, community-based housing and support as required by Olmstead.
* Compensatory Damages: Damages under the ADA, Section 504, the Fair Housing Act, and RCW 74.34 to address the loss of my livelihood, housing, and the unconstitutional deprivation of my parental rights.
I am currently located in Tacoma, WA, and am available for an immediate intake interview or consultation.
Sincerely,
Daphne Garrido [https://opheliaeverfall.substack.com/p/trump-called-people-like-me-a-movement?r=2cd8qt] - link to video from last night
Tacoma, WA
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