Those people in the FC user's life who do not facilitate with the individual may feel rejected or excluded. The accused suffer emotional and financial burdens. The individual with disability may themselves be cut off from significant others as a result of false allegations. The authors also suggest that sexual content is to be expected if, in fact, the messages in FC are products of the unconscious of the facilitators. Facilitators who have participated in various validity studies have had a variety of reactions.
Anger can dominate their feelings toward the ones who conducted the testing.
Negotiating the facilitated communication maze. They also report that the stories of naturally occurring validation contrasted with the negative results of the majority of controlled studies make the situation even more difficult for people to make sense of what is going on. Three areas are identified as being crucial in an exploration that seeks to clear some of the confusion. Commenting on the nature of communication itself, the authors review contemporary views of communication that describe it as a process more complex than the conveyance of information from one person to another. Our experience thus far with FC as another strategy for assisting and improving faulty communication reveals in its complexity just how slippery and difficult it will be to be precise about any particular aspect of communication.