When you're an autism organisation run by ABA promotors and you choose to have your autism conference in a country 🇬🇭 that also happens to be one of the most notorious for its abuse of LGBTQ+ people, then we need less reminding that ABA and #ConversionTherapy are the same thing.
More about this connection...
https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1465076119456124932?t=3pP3CSyW5x02L8KJetsLEA&s=19
Here's what's happening in Africa.
https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1458446281421037575?t=3pP3CSyW5x02L8KJetsLEA&s=19
Of course the parents who have been working their butts off for years to get a pan-African (anti-)autism initiative going will, as usual, allow actual autistic people to also submit abstracts for in-person presentations to their all-allistic decision-making panel.
An 'individual with autism' who's prepared to function as a self-narrating zoo exhibit will also be sort of welcome.
They've just deleted my Facebook comment, the one in which I said that PACA chose to delay #CRPD alignment when they started, and that they've moved even further away from it since then, and that no-one who cares about evidence-based practice should be doing ABA.
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