In the UK, dissatisfaction with the research process as experienced by people with physical disability was articulated by Paul Hunt in 1981 when he referred to the researchers who were invited to examine the institutionalised living he inhabited as "parasites." They adopted a detached approach that ignored the lived experiences of the very people who had instigated the research in the first place. Their final product was politically biased and methodologically insensitive. Authors Christine Bigby and Patsie Frawley have produced a blushingly honest account of their struggles with methodology, bureaucracy, and the ethics of conducting research with an individual with intellectual disability by their side. Do they protest too much? The author thinks not. The faults and trials of the research process may be entirely of one's own making and so too should its critique. The author urges all readers to consider the messages in this excellent contribution and to examine their hearts and minds in an effort to secure better representation for colleagues and collaborators within intellectual disability research.