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Sep 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I have a friend in #CapeTown who has all the symptoms of #LongCovid. She's had the acute illness three times in spite of precautions. She phoned to make an appointment with Dr. Jaco Laubscher, then found out how much he charges. Can anyone from #teamclots recommend other doctors?
Or if you don't want to stick your neck out to make a recommendation, do you know other doctors in Cape Town or the Boland who at least claim to treat microclots and systemic conditions in #LongCovid? My own doctor knows some stuff, but doesn't wear a mask, so I don't trust him.
She is going to have the blood tests recommended by Dr. Laubscher, though.
@CovidSupportSA Do you know?

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Sep 9
There are BCBAs who want to reform ABA.

But what they mean by reform seems to be "to change a thing or two about how I work with certain cases."

They don't mean "form a powerful movement to drive the Judge Rotenberg Center torturers out of positions of power in the industry."
"I would never do that to one of my clients," isn't reforming ABA. It's just a business strategy for your own practice.

"I will work to ensure that nobody in this industry ever does that to anyone" is the start of reform.
ABA is corrupt from the philosophical roots through to the fruit.

But if you believe that it can be reformed and you say you want to be part of that reform, then at least do the work of a reformer! Protest march with banners. One of them says reform ABA
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Sep 8
This is hilarious. I took a call from a suicidal friend in the middle of the night, we had a conversation about logic for more than an hour that was not at all emotionally draining, she's now going off to write a book, and I will try to sleep in this amused state.
It's the first time ever that someone's deepnight suicidality has not left me with lingering emotional frazzlement. I merely lost sleep.
You might wonder now if she's rapid-cycling bipolar. I don't know, but her base state all her life has been logic mania. So she spouted huge logical systems things for an hour, she just needed me to listen and understand her concern for all the people dying from ill logic.
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Aug 30
Sodium unfairly got bad rep. We need sodium in our diet. Some of us absorb too little. If you think your sodium intake may be a problem, consider adding more potassium, or lower sodium a bit, but don't try to eliminate it. Drastic reduction creates new problems. Some of us...
...may have unusual health issues that require unusual reduction.
Why add potassium if you have too much sodium? Potassium 'competes' with sodium. Some people who easily lose potassium may need to be more careful about their sodium intake.

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Aug 29
The same bunch of ABA professionals from last week are still arguing, but we're a bit further along now, where one of them is at least duly aghast at the electric shocks given at the Judge Rotenberg Center and the involvement of prominent ABA leaders and institutions.
Two of her colleagues have decided, though, that it's probably necessary science.
They've also been trying to change the subject, by goading me with terms like 'neurodiversity activists' and 'Facilitated Communication'. I think it perplexes them that I'm not interested in taking their bait.
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Aug 28
I've been having a discussion with a team of hardcore ABA professionals from a specific company over the past few days, and the problem is, believing what we say is just not within their framework. They believe behaviour they can measure, not what we say it represents.
And this is common.
Interestingly, this phenomenon of dismissing a person's description of their own feelings and sensations pervades other professions too. This thread presents examples, not exclusively those of autistic people, but focusing on chronic illness and pain.

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Aug 28
[THREAD]

NeuroClastic is conducting a survey seeking professional perspectives on the use of contingent electric skin shock (CESS) as punishment to shape the behaviour of disabled people.
If you're employed in one of the these fields or a graduate student in a one of them, please consider taking the brief CESS survey:
#psychologist
#psychiatrist
#BehaviorAnalyst
#teacher
#OccupationalTherapist
#SocialWorker
Other allied health professional
surveymonkey.com/r/skinshock
NeuroClastic is on Twitter as well (@NeuroClastic), but they're more active on Facebook than here. facebook.com/NeuroClastic
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