Thread by @OverlordMarie

While I've got the rabid "Warrior parents" freaking out at me, let me point out:

ABA is a multi billion dollar industry.

Many of the parents who attack autistic adults over it sit on boards of orgs that *raise money* to feed into Big ABA.

Autistics don't get paid to fight it.

We fight it - investing our time, money, and spoons to do so - because it's the right thing to do.

We don't financially benefit, all we get is a better future for autistic kids.

And that's enough.

Follow the money, when you're looking at who is fighting for what...

... ESPECIALLY when it's people fighting against a marginalized group.

Especially when that marginalized group points out how abusive what the oppressors are fighting for actually is.

It's not "therapy". It's compliance training deemed inappropriate for even DOGS.

It leaves a high percentage of its survivors with PTSD or C-PTSD, and brainwashes children - sometimes in sessions upwards of 40 hours a week - out of having any sense of bodily autonomy.

It trains them that they can't say no to anything they don't want to do, from a young age

You know what happens when you have kids that are trained that they can't say no, and are stuck with PTSD over it?

A lifetime of being susceptible to abuse.

All so that their parents can have a compliant little robot, that they don't have to learn to work with.

Nah. Fight it!