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This is a recent tweet from an "Autism Mom". I agree with her - I DON'T speak "for" non-speaking Autistic people. But neither does she.
Why? Because through #AAC, they can speak for themselves.
Here's a thread of quotes EXCLUSIVELY from non-speaking Autistic people. Heed them.
ALT A screenshot of a tweet by @ RachGalarneau White font on a dark blue background. Text reads: "I hate to break it to you, but the people w/ high functioning autism do NOT speak for the low functioning ones. Because they CAN'T SPEAK. We the caregivers speak for the low functioning ones. Sit down and shut your mouths. 🛑 # AutismAcceptanceMonth"
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more people than ever before know that jk rowling denied the history of the holocaust because she threatened this person into issuing a public apology and i think that’s beautiful
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This is a bizarre but incredibly important interaction for understanding how JK Rowling's mind works post-radicalisation, and how cult movements and extremist groups are able to function in conflict with seemingly undeniable reality.
A small thread 🧵
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One of the reasons PDD-NOS, Autism Disorder, And Asperger's Syndrome (all were separate categories in the DSM) were eliminated and placed under Autism Spectrum is because the Board of the DSM found that the same person could go into 5 different clinics... 1/
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I experienced ABA as a child, and faced this kind of abuse
When I was in college studying psych, I unfortunately was placed in an internship where I practiced ABA
It is no better now, no matter what they tell you
ABA is conversion therapy but for Autistic kids
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ABA is borderline abuse. I was ignored as a child as part of ABA, it’s affected me so much in my adult life. Idk how to control my emotions because I was taught my emotions don’t matter
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I want to tell you something that many people in the autism industry don't know:
Many well-known autistic activists in your local community and the international autism advocacy community ARE STILL BEING ABUSED BY THEIR PARENTS and they can't afford to tell the world.
Many.
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.@jk_rowling just wrote a long post about how much she apparently cares about prison safety, and then immediately retweeted a racist "patriot" account, who claims to have been a male officer in a female prison, who enjoys making prison rape jokes. 1/
Holy crap this story is wild - and deeply alarming. My eyes just got wider and wider the more I read. Always grateful to Tania for being so unrelentingly direct with addressing these topics.
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I got so much shit for talking about Hogwarts Legacy from people saying things like "show me where she's spent her money on transphobia", well here you fucking go.
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strange how none of the “retvrn to tradition” accounts ever talk about the stunning beauty of islamic architecture – at St Louis, MO
ALT The ceiling of the Sankt-Peterburgskaya Sobornaya Mechet, a mosque in St Petersburg Russia. It is an absolutely stunning bright blue with tons of ornamentation, decorative Arabic lettering, and artwork
ALT The Shah Cheragh, located in Iran. The entire building is green an ornamented with the Jade, there are chandeliers, archways, and everything sparkles brilliantly.
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Here is JK Rowling openly donating 70,000 to a legal crowdfunder by "For Women Scotland," an organisation co-founded by a woman who referred to trans women as "blackface actors" and "sick, pathetic fucks." But you just HAD to buy and play that Harry Potter computer game, right?
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if simon baren-cohen is so desperate to learn about the thoughts and feelings of autistic ppl in distress then maybe he could ??? talk to the ones that are able to consent ???
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Applied Behavioural Analysts like telling you that they help people learn to communicate, but as soon as people who have experienced ABA communicate that it harmed them, that communication suddenly doesn't count anymore.
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Increasing I am of the opinion that many autism researchers want to define autism as only those who can’t communicate and therefore can’t contradict them.
