Thread by @ekverstania

I'm going to interview @kerima_cevik, autistic mother of a nonspeaking autistic man, about the structures that perpetuate the cycle of violence and murder of nonspeaking autistic people by their family and caregivers. Kerima requested this topic.

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Here are some of the things you can expect us to talk about:

The media speak strongly against people who murder their children, and the normal public response is, "Those poor babies!"

...unless the children are disabled.

Then media sympathy switches towards the murderer. Why is there so little concern for the victim?

In South Africa, lockdowns led to a massive increase in domestic violence.

Elsewhere, COVID-19 restrictions also spelled an increase risk of parents murdering their children. Kerima, who's from the US, will be discussing this in our upcoming Twitter Space.

[In case it isn't amply clear: the subject here is the murder of disabled children, and especially autistic children, by their parents or caregivers. This is your content warning.]

Kerima will also be talking about the negative impact of ableist online parenting groups, organisations, and social media on parents and other carers, and how the contribute to a culture that leads to #filicide.

One of the first spin-off topics that is raised when someone murders the disabled child in their care is how they were'failed by the system, and how services were lacking. Kerima will talk about this too; but be ready for a different perspective from what you usually hear here.

There are certain (often undiagnosed) conditions in carers that can contribute to the predisposition to commit murder. Kerima will touch on some of these issues.

What are some of the ways to avert filicide? What can be done to reduce the risk of parents murdering their disabled children?

Join us on Sunday to get direction from veteran human rights activist @kerima_cevik.

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Thank you to @kerima_cevik for a powerful and uncompromising message, with practical advice to parents to avert harming their autistic children.

Listen to the recording to hear how we can all help change the narrative, preparing parents for a different outcome, saving lives.

Here's the next topic.

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1475191537575374854?t=btXiAyFGsNMGL_oMHqsuKQ&s=19

If you attended this, what were some of the messages that stood out for you?

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1472970004610039810?t=R4sIpvH2nPXcP28uHg9u9A&s=19

One things that stood out for me was the realisation that for murderers whose crimes were blamed on poor support, there was SO much evidence of them having refused support; and one of the red flags was their stance of "Cure autism or bust," which inevitably came down to "bust".

This also gave me insight into why the public think of them as good but desperate parents who'd do "anything" to help their child. The public often sees a determined refusal to accept disability as a POSITIVE thing, whereas in all these cases, it's actually a BAD thing.

The public also doesn't usually see disabled people (or autistic people with high support needs, particularly) as being knowledgeable about what helps and what doesn't help people like themselves.

Famous autism celebrity's solution to autistic people with high support needs: Sometimes you got no choice, honey, you just gotta murder these people.

Did he EVER ask ANY nonspeaking incontinent people what they...?

Does he know they HEAR HIM? If not...

https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1475758102599417857?t=PFtZ8Ni1CCUdq9jXkxzGrg&s=19

Why does this man have a platform? Why are murder apologists profiled, but murder victims are not mourned?

Do you know that there are SURVIVORS of murder attempts among us, whose parents who tried to kill them still walk free?

One of them is one of my best friends. She has a restraining order against her mother, and struggles to live on her own because of unmet support needs.

One of the perpetrators even wrote a book in which she describes how she tried to murder her child. She charges exorbitant fees for ABA and is expanding her torture empire.