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Nov 16 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
For those who have been following the story about the torture of autistic people at the Judge Rotenberg Center: ABAI members just voted AGAINST Contingent Electric Skin Shock, and that is now therefore the official ABAI position!
This step forward is a victory for disability rights activists!

What happens next to #StopTheShock? We don't know yet. There are laws before Congress at the moment, but that is a separate process.

This news via @NeuroClastic, one of the main lobbyists against the torture.
For more of the backstory, here's an older thread:

And here's more about how the torture house threatened @NeuroClastic, one of the groups which spoke out strongly against the torture.
This step forward would not have happened without years of external pressure from organisations such as @autselfadvocacy, @NationalADAPT and @NeuroClastic, individual activists like @autistichoya incl. survivor-activists like @JenniferMsumba, who spoke out about the abuse.
The ABAI position statement is just one step.

Ban the torture now.

#StopTheShock

Support this campaign:

autisticadvocacy.org/2022/11/abai-f…

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