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8 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Funny thing that happened a few years ago in Stellenbosch...

One night a policeman spotted a student carrying a traffic sign. It was obviously stolen, but rather than confronting him, he followed him home to see whether there he'd stolen any more traffic signs.
When the student entered the commune where he lived, the policeman called for backup, and the police discovered...
...a plantation of chronic*!

* extra strong cannabis
Cannabis was nowhere near legal in any way back then, and this was an undergraduate law student who now had a criminal record AND the opportunity to do his own defense in court! 😏

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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
9 Nov
The core element needed for anyone to adopt ABA for use on vulnerable autistic people is #ableism. The cult of ABA believes that ABA helps autistic children. To provide this 'help', it is important to strip the subject of their agency and to get them into self-preservation mode.
While most ABA practitioners no longer use slaps and electric shocks, all ABA regards the work of Rekers & Lovaas as part of the evidence base in support of ABA. Rekers went on to use behaviour modification against gay and trans people, while Lovaas continued with autistics.
Today there is an international movement to #BanConversionTherapy and #BanABA.
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8 Nov
"You're too high functioning to..." is Ableist Code for "If you're autistic and I can understand what you're saying, I don't want to."
Nonspeaking people who need help with everything from initiating movement to ablutions and changing their incontinence wear have been put into the "too high functioning" category by various critics, for the crime of using words to communicate.
On the other hand, "use your words" is also a common instruction from ABA therapists who deem word-users too high functioning to be allowed opinions.

(Ironically, these same ABA people use words themselves to deliver these contradictory instructions and messages.)
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
2 Nov
[THREAD] #AskingAutistics and allies, especially people in Africa or of African descent throughout the world: We need your help. A bad thing has happened for #DisabilityRights in Africa: ABAI has sponsored an American, Ashley Knochel, to promote ABA in Africa by formalising it.
There has been a neocolonialist trend with aggressive ABA infiltrations from America into Ghana, Kenya and other countries for some time now, including a CARD-associated organisation in South Africa; but this latest move is worse.
This American person has established a Pan-African Association of Behaviour Association along with Kenyans, and they are launching this Saturday.

facebook.com/panafricaaba/
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
4 Oct
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.

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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
4 Oct
[THREAD] HERITABILITY AND CAUSES OF AUTISM

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/…
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
3 Oct
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?
The greater the support need, the less the mercy.
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