I just heard that an ABA conference co-opted the interaction signal badges that ANI (autistic-led organisation) developed decades ago and that Autreat (autistic-organised event) used.
It appears that they not only didn’t credit autistics with the development of such badges, they had the nerve to call the badges an "antecedent intervention to prevent undesirable interpersonal conference.”
This is going to become one of my long and rambling threads, and I am starting it simply because many #ActuallyAutistic people seem to misunderstand genetics and heritability not only in autism, but in general. This results in...
...arguments being made based on these false assumptions.
I've in fact just been blocked by someone who said that I should use the word 'debate' instead of 'argument', when I specifically meant 'argument' in the academic sense, so I shared my definition of 'argument' in the context, to clarify. academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/…
Social skills include things like boundaries and consent. So why are ABA people involved in social skills training for vulnerable disabled children?
They say 'high functioning' people like me can't understand why 'low functioning' people need such 'therapies'. Here's what I understand: those therapies would be cruel even if imposed on me, so why would they be LESS cruel if imposed on a MORE disabled person?
DALE: Hi, honey, I'm home!
GITA: Do you have to sound so NT?
DALE: I was doing it for effect.
GITA: You want to be kissed while I wear an apron like in the 50s posters?
DALE: No. Sensory f***up from traffic.
GITA: OK. So I mustn't talk?
DALE: Talking is OK, just don't screech.
GITA: What the f*** is that? Is that your new meds? Looks like something to vaccinate a herd of cows.
DALE: (grins)
GITA: What IS it?
DALE: (grins)
GITA: Stop f***ing with me, is that even legal? What IS it?
DALE: Actually, I haven't STARTED f***ing with you yet, but we could…
In this thread, I am going to provide definitions for some of the key concepts which often feature in discussions, training, arguments and even academic papers about autism.
Defining them and agreeing about the definitions can help us reduce our arguments and gain consensus more quickly -- or at the very least, it can help to ensure that we're at least arguing about the same thing, even if we don't agree about how to approach it.