Judge Rotenberg Center, a residential institution that uses shock torture to modify behavior on high support needs ID and DD people, is threatening to silence autistic voices speaking loudly against shock torture. Are they also going to sue the UN, who also said they use torture?
The time is now to stop torturing people who are autistic, and all other kinds of neurodivergent people. Then when we speak out against torture of higher support needs NDs, the threats and abuse come. They don’t see neurodivergent people as human beings worthy of compassion.
JRC threatened a defamation suit against an all autistic blog who dared to speak out against their abuses & torture. Now NDs are wrapping our arms around @NeuroClastic and saying #JRCsueMeToo We won’t be silenced, nor stand down. If you want us to shut up, STOP TORTURING CHILDREN
If you believe torture of neurodivergent people in any form must not be tolerated, please share @NeuroClastic’s work on this important issue and hashtag, #JRCsueMeToo If we can’t all agree torturing the most vulnerable must be banned, what hope is there for this country?

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Why I think the new Youngkin policy for trans kids in schools is unconstitutional and should not withstand judicial scrutiny. A 🧵. @GlennYoungkin is compelling educators to divulge information about children to their parents shared in confidence.
2. Griswold v CT enshrined a fundamental 14th amendment right to privacy for Americans. It has been cited in numerous privacy cases since like Lawrence v Texas, which ruled state sodomy laws were unconstitutional and violated right to privacy for LGBTQ individuals
3. Tinker v DeMoines, (1969) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v.… the majority opinion stated that a child’s constitutional rights aren’t shed at the school house gate. While Tinker was a free speech case, other cases have cited it to protect constitutional rights of children at school.
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🧵 1) When I say I’m a former Republican, I’m always asked for proof, so here. Me, age 22 wearing a 1988 Bush/Quayle tee w/pic of Reagan on it. Going to the 88 GOP convention is when I realized I didn’t agree w/ these people, and then left the party within 2 weeks after that.
2) What struck me most at the convention was how mean it was. I lived in CA. I knew a lot of liberals. They weren’t the evil caricatures these people were describing. In fact, while I disagreed with liberal friends on policy, I could still respect the passion of their convictions
3) In 1988, when I was a CA delegate for HW Bush at the GOP convention, what I recall most clearly was being shocked by the rancor and cruelty. It bothered me so much I left the party, but didn’t vote for my first Democratic POTUS until 2000. I voted third party in 92 and 96.
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Are you saying private schools who haven’t the infrastructure to accommodate whoever walks into the door will just magically follow the mandates of IDEA even though they don’t have to? We can barely get publics who have to to follow it.
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OR, like my son, who’s forced into an entirely segregated disability only school, a 3 hour round trip from our house each day, with no extracurriculars, sports, advanced academics, or anything neurotypical kids have access to. I want my autistic son to go to our local public HS.
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This guy is on the board is some anti-sexual assault group I guess. He told me, a 2x sexual survivor when I talked about my experience and pain, to “stop playing the victim card.” Any sexual assault advocacy group who would put this guy on their board is a sick joke.
Know what ends sexual assault most effectively? Victims coming forward, telling our stories, you know, playing the victim card. Our lived experiences matter more than opinions of those who’ve not been sexually assaulted. I won’t be told by anyone not to speak my truth
I certainly am not letting some guy man-splain to me what is/isn’t important in this work. This convo started bc I said front lines fighters in this work are concerned w/mis-use of the term, “grooming,” which has an actual definition not in political context it’s being used now
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We are disabled, not special needs, differently abled, diff-abled, learning disabled, handicapped, not challenged or any other of the words people use the avoid just saying disabled. By refusing to use the actual word to not to stigmatize us, you’re stigmatizing disability.
This varies in our community among different diagnoses, but most neurodivergents also use identity first language. I am a dyslexic person, not a person w/dyslexia. My son is an autistic person, not a person w/autism. These are identities; and yes, they do define our experiences
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