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We told you this was an imperialist cult.
ABAI has an expansionist arm called SABA.
They are serious.
They want to set up control areas in all spheres of society.
ABAI are the people who give a platform to the Judge Rotenberg Center.
It's not just about autism.
#BanABA
ABAI has an expansionist arm called SABA.
They are serious.
They want to set up control areas in all spheres of society.
ABAI are the people who give a platform to the Judge Rotenberg Center.
It's not just about autism.
#BanABA
They want to mainstream ABA to make it completely unstoppable.
It's a strategy. If they succeed in normalising ABA beyond its current applications, we will have a much harder time trying to stop them from doing this to autistic children.
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[THREAD] If an enormous number of people end up traumatised by therapists who are doing their work by the book, within the ethical framework of their profession, then maybe there is something fundamentally wrong with that type of therapy.
There are many ABA therapists who, upon hearing of the trauma of ABA survivors, will tell you that "my ABA is not like that" and "you'll always have a few bad apples".
I've heard a few autistic people speak well of their behaviour techs. So the "it depends on the therapist" principle is sometimes true, but not for the reasons you may think.
The founder of ABA said the following about Autistic kids:
“You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense – they have hair, a nose and a mouth – but they are not people in the psychological sense...."
“You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense – they have hair, a nose and a mouth – but they are not people in the psychological sense...."
"One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person.”
Lovaas strongly believed in intense behavioral modification interventions, that included harsh aversive techniques such as withholding touch and attention, isolation, and even giving electric shock "therapy"...
There is no debate with child abuse apologists. #YesAllABA is abuse. How destroyed does your moral compass have to be to support 40h a week of holding hostage everything a child loves til they comply?
Yall can say it works all you want, but interrogate what works means. Your kid will break themselves to access 1 minute w.their favorite toy and you think that's good? How morally bankrupt is that?
"We dont hit kid anymore, we just withhold everything they love" oh okay good job.
