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6 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
No shade to this thread as it forces NTs to understand autistic people. But holy sh*t are non-autistic people really that terrible at empathy?

Autistic people constantly tell NTs how we work & they just.. ignore us completely.

It really takes a goddamn simulation everytime?
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Is it really so hard to believe autistic people?
Are neurotypicals taught to disbelieve other people's experiences? To gaslight? To ignore what is being communicated?

I honestly don't know of autistic people who would immediately disbelieve someone's internal experience. 2/5
I'm not joking when I say, is this a neurotypical empathy deficit?

Do they assume no one's experiences as disabled people are true? Or they can't fathom it?

Why is it so hard for them to Just. Believe. Us.
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I really want you to do an experiment .@mcloughlin_mara -

Can you have an autistic adult come in and talk about their experiences and sensory sensitivities? And then have those people fill out a survey about how much they understand/believe them?
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And then the next day, do the simulation & survey?

Like do they really have to experience the Same. Exact. Thing (or really as close as possible) As. Us. to have it be impactful? To have them believe it?

It's honestly mind-blowing to me that it takes so much.
It shouldn't. 5/5

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AutisticSciencePerson #StopTheShock Profile picture
7 Jul
#StopTheShock just did this -

The part I added I will tweet here so you can copy and paste into your message:

"I would also like you to push to ban the GED device that the FDA previously banned the use of, but has just been overturned by the D.C. Circuit Court."
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"The Judge Rotenburg Center tortures autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities with this shock device.

The GED is abusive. Shocking autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities for not taking their coat off fast enough is abusive."
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"To learn more, please follow the #StopTheShock hashtag on twitter.

Please push the FDA to ban the GED device outright, and to prevent the restraint and abuse of all autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities in the US."
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AutisticSciencePerson #StopTheShock Profile picture
7 Jul
#StopTheShock

A primary source, someone who literally went to JRC. This is what the Circuit Court is allowing.

JRC was an appointed guardian over this person, which is why their parent couldn't just take them out of JRC. This is utterly terrifying. 1/9
TRIGGER WARNING - restraint, electric shock, abuse, seclusion, lack of privacy, manipulation

What follows is a quote from the video:
2/9
"It lasts 2 seconds but it feels like 10-15 seconds. The feeling is like this pulsing, pulling, yanking, burning sensation that they get in your arm, leg, whatever spot they shock you in. It doesn't go through your whole body,"
3/9
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AutisticSciencePerson #StopTheShock Profile picture
7 Jul
TW JRC, shocks

"..Rotenberg and the parents and guardians argued that the shock treatment was beneficial for patients who did not respond to any other treatment"

1. How is shocking people beneficial?
2. Respond in what way?

1/6
reuters.com/legal/litigati…
"'With the treatment, these residents can continue to participate in enriching experiences, enjoy visits with their families and, most importantly, live in safety and freedom from self-injurious and aggressive behaviors,' it said."

2/6
In what world is getting shocked 100 times a day completely out of your control, due to behaviors as innocuous as getting out of your chair, or wanting a drink, or any other regular life thing, living "in safety and freedom"?

3/6
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AutisticSciencePerson #StopTheShock Profile picture
7 Jul
TW JRC, electric shocks, all caps
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YES THEY'RE STILL SAYING IT'S OKAY TO ELECTRIC SHOCK AUTISTIC PEOPLE.

STOP TELLING US ABA ISN'T ABUSE. ABA THERAPY IS ABUSE, READ IT YOURSELF, RIGHT HERE:

#SayNoToABA
If anyone wants to "approve" this they should have to undergo the electric shocks themselves before they get to officially decide.

This is f*cking barbaric.

YES THEY SHOCK AUTISTIC PEOPLE IN 2021. STILL.
"The ruling was a victory for the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center and a group of parents and guardians of its students, which had challenged the regulation."

Notice they didn't say it was a victory for the STUDENTS.

It was Not a victory for the disabled students themselves.
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AutisticSciencePerson #StopTheShock Profile picture
5 Jul
This is what I mean when I say that transmasculine & AFAB nonbinary people are invisible to the wider public still.

Tech: Ms. [last name]

Me: Don't call me Ms., you can just call me [last name].

Tech: Oh. *5 minutes later*
Wait, did you say you want me to call you Ms.?

1/5
Me: No, I don't want you to call me Ms., you can just say [last name] when you call me up.

Tech: Oh.

This is the first time I've ever spoken up about it. I also wrote on the sign up sheet today "(Not a Ms.)" next to my name.

Physical therapist: Ms. [last name]

2/5
He literally knows that I changed my name and has seen my they/them mask.

I doubt any of the people I interacted with has known an out transmasculine person.

They've been calling me Ms. forever, 2 days a week.

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AutisticSciencePerson #StopTheShock Profile picture
5 Jul
Some thoughts on my experience with tone of voice -
Tone of voice is still possibly the hardest and most exhausting thing for me to mask.

I can't explain how it feels like such a suppression of myself when I try to copy other's tone, the lilting almost sing-songy tone. 1/5
I think it's worse that people perceive(d) me to be a girl/woman, and because of that, the change in pitch I had to show to mask would be ridiculous.

People don't seem to judge cis men as much regarding tone. It felt like an absurd unnecessary constraint on communication. 2/5
For me masking or really more "mimicking" NT tone that other people wanted from me was akin to a person on the street having to put on clown makeup & a red nose everyday.
It has just never made sense. And it's so easy to tell (with people I know well) when my tone is "wrong" 3/5
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