Thread by @NeuroClastic

The people behind #CommunicationRights are not obstructionist behaviorists. @NeuroClastic has speech language pathologists, psychologists, educators, OTs, MTs, researchers, neuroscientists, & nonspeakers who communicate through AAC, spelling, & sign. #ActuallyAutistic #Autism

https://twitter.com/bronwynhemsley/status/1327332231480676352

These people may have an aggressive approach to bullying autistics & our allies out of our own narratives & using their white (that's all white people) privilege to maintain the #monopoly on #Autism, but they are NOT allies. They are #oppressors. We can and do communicate. See?

We have orgs, individuals, & initiatives championing #CommunicationRights. @U4CommChoice @Communica1st @ekverstania @autselfadvocacy @awnnetwork_ @ReachEveryVoice and so many more. It's 2020, and we are #nonCompliant with a #Behaviorist agenda that parades itself as #science.

The #Disability community is ALL THE WAY DONE with having others claiming ownership of our #autonomy, voices, and #SELFDETERMINATION. We are all the way done with being #colonized. We are all the way done with saviors, martyrs, & pseudo-progressives talking over us.

Yes, maybe they are scientists. We have had their #evidencebased science used on us for long enough to justify institutionalization, lobotomies, forced sterilization, #eugenics, #restraint, #seclusion, #rationing, #euthanasia, and #conversionTherapy.

How dare they say "Ask us about #FacilitatedCommunication #RapidPromptingMethod." No. Ask autistics. We are not anti-science. We have the same credentials. We are parents of children with high support needs and some of us have high support needs.

It's way past time to retire this network of self-aggrandizing denizens of #DunningKruger. Neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and #DisabilityRights have rendered them dinosaurs leveraging public prejudice to sell their dogma.

You don't get to tell us that our lived experiences are #pseudoscience and have that go unchallenged anymore. Don't use our hashtags or co-opt our narratives and put a price tag on it. It's gross. It's time to retire your privilege and pass the mic.

We have chosen our allies, and you're not championing #autistics. It's gross to go on Twitter and use the #HumanRights hashtag to speak against us when you're a part of a small group who has bullied and silenced us for over two decades. Literal online bullying of #nonspeakers.

You don't have autistic endorsement. We have vehemently and clearly communicated that we don't want you evangelizing your "gold standard" abuse. We don't want you around our children. Get out of the way. #apraxiaisnotcontroversial #apraxia #HumanRightsViolations #aac #autcomm

Here's Susan Gerbic bullying a Black woman who is a university Dean (plus screenshot in case of dirty delete) for not submitting to her bullying. Gerbic is the person behind "Guerilla Skeptics of Wikipedia," now renamed.

https://twitter.com/SusanGerbic/status/1010348187062693888

Here's Susan Gerbic's Guerilla Skeptics of Wikipedia TRACKER since the first time they bastardized Tito Mukhopadhyay's, a BIPOC nonspeaking autistic's Wikipedia page. How damn disturbing is this? These people are not our allies.

Here's Jason Travers telling people that we (autistic self-advocates) are extremist ideologues and to ignore us. We "don't want evidence, information, or progress.” This is dismissing the community he purports to serve as a “good person.”

Here’s Hemsley and crew trying to get Asha to issue position statements against Facilitated communication and RPM. Eventually they (the specific group of people in the original tweet) were successful. More on that to come:

https://twitter.com/speechwoman/status/881352688801267712

Here’s Travers calling a coalition of autistics and allies privileged ableists and nonspeakers puppets. And himself “dedicated to serving people with disabilities” 🙄🤢🤮

https://twitter.com/trav_jason/status/1023296949947166720

Here’s James Todd calling autistic people with communication partners actual Ouija.

https://twitter.com/jimtemu/status/1021527889383223297

Here James Todd chides Autism Speaks for “bringing RPM to the US” because Cure Autism Now brought Tito Mukhopadhyay and his mother, Indian immigrants, to the US to learn how a “severe” autistic can type. Autism Speaks apparently published a blog about RPM (see next tweet)

https://twitter.com/jimtemu/status/1023147688630607873

After pressure from this crew and Jill Escher from the NCSA, Autism Speaks said it was a mistake and verified their commitment to ABA

Here Jason Travers bullies a college professor from NYU and demands a scientific experiment be done on an autistic college honor student who types independently.

https://twitter.com/trav_jason/status/1004043135658414080

Here Travers claims that Syracuse University is just an ineffective collection of anecdotes. At the same time he champions single case design (anecdotes) research to validate ABA, a whole field based on anecdotes that are often horrifying

https://twitter.com/trav_jason/status/1013861091020038144

Here Hemsley quotes James Todd insulting ASAN @autselfadvocacy and implies they’re deluded about their nonspeaking board members and willingly and knowingly accept it as a “sham.”

https://twitter.com/BronwynHemsley/status/952324504960647168

Here’s Travers bullying a BIPOC professor at UVA, one of the most respected research universities. Check who RT Travers

https://twitter.com/trav_jason/status/1134090595834765313