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14 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
And here we have a person on social media preaching from a position of privilege...
...While many autistic people are denied the right to even communicate at all. #ListenToNonspeakers autisticstrategies.net/nonspeaking-au…
"...nor is it conversion therapy."

Well, technically, you are completely correct! It is only called conversion therapy when it's applied to people who aren't cishet.

Happy now?

Thank you for sacrificing yourself like this by creating a Twitter account and self-medicating so that we can have talking points for our lesson on human rights.
To everyone else who popped into class today to see if you'd like to do this course: the rest of the study material is here.

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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
15 Nov
@CadaJennifer The 'science' underlying ABA is flawed, unethical and riddled with conflicts of interest.
@CadaJennifer ABA is not a science.

#ABAisPseudoscience
@CadaJennifer ABA apologists always tell us that when the therapist was abusive, it was just one bad apple. And yet, some people have MANY therapists over many years at many institutions, and they're ALL abusive. Wonder why that happens? Maybe because the entire profession is abusive?
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
13 Nov
These 'experts' want autistic children to be accepted in society someday, but they cannot even accept what thousands of speaking and nonspeaking autistic people say about what what works best for them.
Based on what they are modeling for parents and for society as a whole, how on earth do they expect to succeed in reaching their magnanimous lofty goal?

#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
Here's the challenge, O Magnanimous Autism Experts! This is for you!
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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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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
8 Nov
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
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA 😷 Profile picture
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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