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4 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
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.”
These people are deplorable.

History of ANI (from 2005):
web.archive.org/web/2009012611…
Also, there's a typo in PHYSICAL.

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