IDEAS ON AUTISTIC ADVOCACY FOR 2022 AND BEYOND T[THREAD]
Religious history provides a number of useful metaphors for what I want to say. These metaphors do not require you to accept the religion, they're more like hooks or mnemonic aids, so I'll be using them outside of their original context.
"And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins."
Mark 2:22
The moral of this story: you're going to have a hard time trying to get the Autism Industrial Complex to 'reform'.
Transforming the BACB so that it doesn't do ABA anymore, transforming Autism Speaks and its ilk till they're led by an autistic majority (including nonspeakers), transforming Cambridge and every other bastion of autism research till they take the lead from autistic people...
...won't happen without ruptions, if at all.
Start anew.
Did you know that Martin Luther tried to reform the Catholic Church from within? That's why his movement was called the Reformation. Did he succeed in reforming the Catholic Church? Nope.
I have a typo in the very first tweet in this thread.
I'm going to bed. I'll continue later.
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