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27 Mar
To the communication therapists:

To think that giving children access to communication alone is a solution to abuse, is wrong. I have listened to many of you now. One speller has reached out to me privately, and I will continue to engage with him on solutions.
Thank you to the few of you who are prepared to stand up against abuse.
Many of my autistic friends were abused by their parents and suffer cPTSD and dissociative disorders to this day.
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19 Mar
You can be a reform-minded ABA therapist; it makes no difference. You can't reform abuse. Protest at the symposium. Protest online and in person. Have placards. Write to legislators. See if you get to keep your job. The compliance industry doesn't take kindly to noncompliance.
If you're a BCBA or RBT and you treat children in ways that nonspeaking autistic people say works well for them, giving respect, you won't be filling in your worksheets anymore. And your job is all about those scores and stats. You stop that, they fire you. So you comply.
How do you reform the industry from the inside if doing the right thing must always secret and unnoticed?

They won't fire you for torturing children with electricity, but you can lose your licence if you call the organisation out too loudly for promoting torture.
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19 Mar
And this is why disabled people who DON'T want to die are often murdered: because people think that killing people with high support needs, or people who are simply old and frail-looking is the 'decent' thing to do.
The 'right' to kill disabled people is too seldom discussed in the context of disabled people's right to choose proper support and care without being made to feel like a burden. notdeadyet.org
Elderly and disabled people are treated so badly by society and institutions as a whole that many nondisabled people say outright that they'd rather be dead than disabled, BUT THEY DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT WORKING TO CHANGE SOCIETY'S MINDSET OR SYSTEMS.
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19 Mar
"When you are a king, the forces of the universe will protect your mourners against COVID-19, so the rules about numbers of people at funerals don't apply to your funeral. You can have several thousand people there as long as they have masks and sanitise."
"Also, the virologists and immunologists can have an opinion on how disease spreads, but politicians hsve the final say on that. So obviously we need more politicians and fewer scientists, and then we'll all be healthier."
"Also, while we're here, I just want to remind you that John Pombe Magufuli died of a heart problem in Dar es Salaam, not of COVID-19 in Nairobi; and he was fine and working hard the weeks before when nobody heard from him."
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17 Mar
The great COVID-19 denier John Magufuli, President of Tanzania, has died and they're still spinning this thing.

Take your pick:

He died in Dar/He died in Nairobi.

He died of a heart condition/He was so sick from COVID-19 that his heart stopped and he died.
He started so well. I was in awe of him when he became president of Tanzania.

It didn't last long before he started lambasting women for short skirts and persecuting journalists.

To me, John Pombe Magufuli was greatest disappointment ever seen in a president anywhere.
May Tanzanians find health, happiness, joy, freedom, and comfort in their mourning for the people they love.
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3 Mar
I want to talk about my availability in the light of my focus areas for 2021.

I'm not available to review your masters thesis or your book on autism. I appreciate that you ask, but I don't have time. Depending on your topic, I can recommend a number of qualified autistic reviewers with a broad range of experience who you can hire for this type of work.
I'm also not available to counsel/support you or your friend/family member personally, even informally, because this requires commitment and I can't commit to more people than I am serving already. I also can't always connect you to another suitable individual. However...
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