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Disabled - she/her - Pittie Mom❤️ - 🕎 Jewish ✡️
Apr 6, 2021 19 tweets 4 min read
TW: Abuse, conversion therapy, ABA

Do you know who Dr. Ole Ivar Lovaas is? Probably not, he doesn't get talked about a lot- but that man is responsible for the abuse that thousands of people face every year to this day

You've probably heard of conversion therapy- a so-called "therapy" to make gay people become straight (which obviously is absurd to think that that's possible) that involves abusive tactics like electric shocks, extreme physical labor, and many other awful, awful things. Lovaas is the"father" of conversion therapy