Thank you for your interest in our Bad Autism Study. This study is based on previous bad autism studies, but with some enhancements and extra questions to make it worse. If you're a veteran participant in bad autism studies, you'll recognise some old questions.
The Bad Autism Study takes the form of a series of polls over the next few weeks. You can withdraw at any time, but you must answer all the questions.
You will not be compensated for your participation, but your effort may help the researcher get a postgraduate qualification.
The researcher actually had a good topic in mind in the beginning, but their research supervisor and others interfered so much that they lost oxygen from their prefrontal cortex and that's why we're here now.
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Which of the following are you?
What is your gender?
If you're a parent, how old is your child with ASD?
If you're a person with ASD, at what age were you diagnosed?
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How difficult was it for you to get access to ABA therapy for yourself/your child?
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The following questions are only for individuals with ASDs. Please look at each picture and select the description that best matches the picture in the question below.
What is this?
What do you see in the picture above?
What is this?
What do you see in the picture above?
What is this?
What do you see in the picture above?
The following questions are for professionals only.
Which of these best describes your profession?
Which of the following ASD symptoms are the greatest struggle for your clients with ASD?
The following questions are for parents only.
Thinking about the manner in which your child plays, which of the following is your greatest concern?
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Which of the following emoji best reflects your feelings about the study so far?
Which approach have you found to be the most effective treatment for bad autism researchers?
A. Planned ignoring
B. Joining them in their activities
C. Music therapy (e.g. listening to Baby Shark for 40 hours/week)
D. Withholding rewards (e.g. salary, funding)
Thank you for your answers.
Based on your responses to the last two questions, you are not eligible for further participation in our Bad Autism Study at this time.
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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.
Inferences about autistic people's body language, made by others who don't understand autism (this includes the majority of 'autism experts'), has led to enormous and widespread human rights violations.
The accusation and trial of Matthew Rushin was problematic for many reasons (some described in this article). One of the problems was that his body language was interpreted as guilt. neuroclastic.com/where-is-the-t…
There seems to be a TV/movie trope in which autistic adults are presented in a poignant, light-hearted way as having real but childlike adult relationships; and there's ALWAYS a sage grown-up allistic coach figure, to guide them in how to do it in the Proper (neurotypical) Way.
Can you name some TV shows and movies where you've seen this?
This is what made me realise that the Eternal Children and the Normalising Sage is a trope.
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.
Oh my goodness, what I am learning about the lived experience of temporal lobe epilepsy is mind-blowing! People can be misdiagnosed with psychological whatnots for years, and be gaslighted into oblivion because of the arrogant ignorance of psych professionals! This is terrible!
We need to distinguish clearly between these terms:
🔷 Disease
🔷 Disorder
🔷 Disability
🔷 Difference
The way we conceptualise and define them translates into the way we treat people, situations and conditions.
The impact on society is immense.
I'm something of a relativist when it comes to some of these: I accept that there are different models and views of some of these, and it's not so much a matter of whether they're right or wrong, but whether they are helpful or not.
And determining THAT depends on our overall life-guiding paradigm and values.