[THREAD] I'm an artist. Every time I see a new donation towards the legal fund to save @crippledcommie's disabled relative from an abusive guardianship, I add an update to my drawing. The urgent goal to secure an attorney is $10,000. Donate here: gofundme.com/f/23zgqzzd00
For an idea of the potential of this new drawing, here's the what my previous fundraiser drawing looked like in the end. 😁 Let's do this thing!
Can you please make a succession of donations to save @crippledcommie's disabled relative, even if they're teensy, because this pic is at the annoyingly ugly stage, and I need to move it out of there! Will probably take at least five nudges before it starts looking pretty cool.
Yaaaaay! An anonymous donor has broken the spell! Please keep donating to save @crippledcommie's disabled relative from an abusive guardianship! Donate here to see the next update: gofundme.com/f/23zgqzzd00
Just $6 short of $9,300. Lemme give you an ant's eye view of the next update, which is ready to post after the next donation...
Just noticed something cool. There have been 200 donors, but 230 donations, which means some people have donated more than once. I think people realise that there is just no way, given how society is (badly) designed for disabled people, that this could be addessed without money.
Yeaaaah! Another donation! Thank you, O Mysterious Person!
I wish to remind you that the BCBAs who work at the Judge Rotenberg Center are credentialed by the BACB. The BACB takes away the credentials of professionals who violate their code of conduct. The BACB code of conduct permits torture. #ABAisAbuse
Who's on the board of this organisation which tortures disabled children?
Chairman of the Board at the Judge Rotenberg Center: Henry Slucki, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Senior Research Associate at University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Department of Human Behavior
Co-producer and Co-Host of weekly talk radio program on disabilities #ABAisAbuse
My friend had some kind of medical emergency. When paramedics came and took her to the hospital, she had an autistic meltdown. They then called the police, who put her into restraint for 9 hours. She's now being sent home on a bus without treatment. Normal for the UK, apparently.
They tasered the patient.
9 hours, strapped down in pain during all that time, no medical treatment.
Been chatting to someone who's been an autistic activist for about 20 years now. Lots of conferences, long history of writing about autism, but doesn't know any nonspeaking autistic people in his country as they "tend not to mix at conferences". DO YOU SEE THE PROBLEM?
If you're autistic and you've been doing conference and writing gigs for two decades and the nonspeakers are not mixing, it's because YOU didn't seek them out, YOU didn't advocate for communication access, and yeah, I understand that you may have other advocacy priorities, but...
Who in your country is going to prioritise this, and in what decade do you expect them to start thinking about it?
I'm doing an emergency fundraiser for @crippledcommie. If you donate $75 or more, I'll compose a song for you using your lyrics or you can tell me more or less what it should say and I will write the words. This is my piano. An example of a song which I composed follows below.
I'll provide an audio-only version of your song as a sound file. If you prefer something instrumental only, that's fine too.
Here is an example of a song which I composed. Ignore the low-res pic, this is just to give you an idea of the music.
You'll find the lyrics of that song below it on YouTube.
Friends, everybody, Americans and others with strong currency, can you PLEASE donate ASAP? This is desperate. People with communication disabilities are among the most vulnerable people in our community.
Please donate here. At our exchange rate, it would take me YEARS to earn this money, but if 100 Americans give $40 each, this will work. Please help out.
"Their parents kept them locked in their room at night for years and years, boarding up the windows, removing the lights from inside, taking away everything but their bed, and all without a sanitary way to relieve themself, for up to about 12 hours at a time."
With the right supports for the various communication disabilities in autism, we could have a lot of nonspeaking autistic people communicating. Here's a thread with approx. 100 nonspeakers who have something to say.