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Тania Melnyczuk Profile picture
@ekverstania
Jan 5, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
IDEAS ON AUTISTIC ADVOCACY FOR 2022 AND BEYOND T[THREAD]
Religious history provides a number of useful metaphors for what I want to say. These metaphors do not require you to accept the religion, they're more like hooks or mnemonic aids, so I'll be using them outside of their original context.
"And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins."

Mark 2:22
The moral of this story: you're going to have a hard time trying to get the Autism Industrial Complex to 'reform'.
Transforming the BACB so that it doesn't do ABA anymore, transforming Autism Speaks and its ilk till they're led by an autistic majority (including nonspeakers), transforming Cambridge and every other bastion of autism research till they take the lead from autistic people...
...won't happen without ruptions, if at all.
Start anew.
Did you know that Martin Luther tried to reform the Catholic Church from within? That's why his movement was called the Reformation. Did he succeed in reforming the Catholic Church? Nope.
I have a typo in the very first tweet in this thread.
I'm going to bed. I'll continue later.

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Man, this is an interesting exchange. Many people are disadvantaged in this kind of situation: most of us don't have the full set of weapons and skills—body language, posture, tone, eye contact, reading the other guy's responses, quick thinking. This guy has… a lot.
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The whole human race is rapidly changing—biologically—for the worse.
Is disability the New Normal?

We're on the edge of this, right?
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What these people are advocating is child abuse. I know the way they put it doesn't sound bad, but this is about a very controlled, clinically callous form of manipulation. I'll drop some more links below so you can understand the context.
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Someone who refers to behaviour as 'attention-seeking' is highly likely to negatively judge people who need, deserve and ask for attention—like this:
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Why is it so hard for people in the field of ABA to improve the field, even with the support of autistic activists? One of the reasons is this:
Powerful people in the industry will try to destroy you for listening to autistic people, for trying to do a job compassionately, and for calling out the abuse.
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