🧵Thread about #ADHD with text and pictures from an #ActuallyAutistic person who asked to remain anonymous. #AuDHD
"I want to talk about the difference that stimulant medication makes to me."
"I changed my diet and took supplements and even HRT, but I was always tired and couldn't get started on anything."
"This was my desk, for months. I wanted it tidy, but I couldn't tidy it."
"Being surrounded by clutter made me despondent, zapping even the little energy and motivation I had."
"It was hard to open my cupboards to put things away, because of all the stuff on the floor. This picture doesn't even show it at its worst."
"Today I took stimulant medication. Look at what I achieved within minutes. I couldn't do this for months. I know it is not perfect, but it's improved and more liveable."
"My desk, before and after stimulant medication." #ADHD
"I have been on stimulants before, and I had to stop due to side effects. I also discovered that I had many untreated health problems."
"It was only recently that I heard of a new stimulant, and I decided to try it."
"The area next to my bed, before and after stimulant medication. I know it looks like an easy thing to tidy, but I was unable to initiate this for months. For some of us, #ADHD is much more of a disability than many people realise."
"My bed before and after stimulant medication. In the past, I just put all this stuff on the floor at night. Today I put it into the cupboard." #ADHD
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As abuse survivors, other autistic supporters, parents of ABA/PBS survivors and ex-ABA professionals in the UK, US and other countries, we've worked for several years with BCBAs and other ABA professionals who had begun to feel that they needed to do better for their clients. 🧵
Conversations on Twitter during the past two days have revealed how many ABA professionals remain blissfully unaware of the extent of the corruption in their own industry, and the abuse pipelines which many are inadvertently serving.
This thread will be built over time to provide information for professionals who have caught a glimpse of the extent of the abuse, and who are evaluating their own professional position in the light of these revelations.
Let us not forget who oversees the torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center and, who has the power to revoke these people's credentials: @BACB_Inc are complicit.
A credential from @BACB_Inc does not in any way attest to your competence to work with humans or other mammals, given that the BACB absolutely permits these abuses, which are not allowed elsewhere in society, even when interrogating crime suspects. #StopTheShock