There are many papers and literature showing ABA doesn’t work long term, and is ineffective. People profoundly affected by autism can and do benefit from MANY other therapies, which have been shut out and left unfunded because #ABA has KEPT them shut out.
https://twitter.com/_jaclyns/status/1432889308101419008
I fight this shit every day. Every. Day. And the SECOND that SOMEONE in power dares to speak up, they are met with people threatening them and REFUSING!! to listen. It is beyond upsetting. ABA for autism treatment is a cult. And if you’re a parent whose against it, you better be
Ready to fight like hell for your children to have access to literally anything else. You’ll be shut out of groups like the OAC, like the #DurhamCrew, etc. Wanna know how I know? Because parents told me! I was blocked from the @OntAutism’S Facebook page for 1) recommending
A book written by autistic people, and 2) asking why their entire board of leadership (bar 3 self advocates) were all BCBAs. I have sat in a graduate program IN ONTARIO where future ABA practioners defended SHOCKING children. I watched kids be restrained for walking out of
A classroom for being overloaded. I watched a child be completely ignored while she cried and asked again and again “what did I do”? This was 2021 ABA. What they call “kind” and “progressive”. And I’ve sat here, begging these parents to listen. Begging these parents to
Understand and help me fight. And instead, they sit here and tell me we are anti-science, dangerous, not autistic, unworthy. But yes… they are definitely #advocates for #autism…
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