The new Netflix documentary Tell Them You Love Me represents a much-needed return to reality in a world largely inhabited by stories of miraculously discovered literacy among nonspeaking people. Early reviews have described the film as “bizarre,” “chilling,” and “painful”—appropriate reactions given its content. The documentary offers a rare look into the dangers of a long-discredited method of communication that, nonetheless, remains popular to this day. Interwoven with complex issues of race, power, and consent, at its core lies facilitated communication (Vyse 2016), a pseudoscientific practice that continues to shatter families and exploit disabled people. At the center of the story is Anna Stubblefield, a former philosophy professor at Rutgers University-Newark. Stubblefield gained widespread publicity in 2015 when she was convicted and sentenced to twelve years in prison for the aggravated sexual assault of Derrick Johnson, a thirty-three-year-old severely disabled Black man with cerebral palsy who is unable to speak (Engber 2015). An appellate court later reversed Stubblefield’s conviction based on evidence she was barred from presenting at trial. After eighteen months behind bars, Stubblefield was released and subsequently pled …