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25 Apr, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Honestly I have a hard time seeing how it’s possible that parents dont know ABA is abuse. These videos physically hurt to watch, I’m still on edge from it. How do you ignore your child’s distress & force them into more discomfort for your convenience? #AutismAwareness #SayNoToABA
the video of the family in the grocery store... They should literally have their daughter taken away. I'm sorry but I don't know how else to say it besides that is sociopathic behavior. in public torturing their child who’s desperately trying to flee and they are pleased! happy!
They remind me of horror movies where a serial killer dresses up his female victims & forces them to pretend to have a tea party with him or something and then when they try to escape he murders them and cries about how they ruined it. Those are the vibes. Creepy coercive bonding
ABA is not only abuse, it’s training kids into complete compliance and to let adults physically touch them at any time, no questions asked, no consent necessary. It’s creating the ideal situation to abuse them long after they turn 18. The parents are establishing lifelong control
I’m sorry and I do not mean this in any kind of a flippant manner but there is no way that a ton of those parents aren’t molesting their kids. This obsession with physical control over their kid’s body and giving their kid no right to bodily autonomy? That isn't normal or ok.
As a survivor of sexual assault that happened because people manipulated me in a way I couldn't see because I’m autistic - the constant unwanted physical touch in those videos is setting off every fucking alarm bell in my head. Those kids are not safe.
What are these parents training their kids to be? What the fuck was that in the grocery store? Do they want a lifelong domestic servant who can't escape? A pet? Worse than that? They are not training their kid to join society. They are not preparing their kid to be an adult.

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what does @NEXTforAUTISM really stand for? this essay by one of their board members who’s also part of producing #ColorTheSpectrum about how she abused and abandoned her autistic son for not being fun and making her feel loved makes it pretty clear! #AutismAcceptanceMonth #autism
read the whole thing yourself still up on their website bc apparently they’re proud of this shit

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