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What if bugs would give light.

How fucked up would that be if they were in your room at night.

You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

Invisible Abuse: ABA and the things only autistic people can see

One of the most hotly-contended points of division between the adult autistic community and the neurotypical parents of autistic children: explained.

As we enter Autism Acceptance month, I’m going to sincerely ask you to please, please read this article. Even if you’re not autistic and don’t know anyone who is, someday you might have autistic child, or know someone who does, and you need to hear the truth of ABA therapy from actual autistics.

I’m incredibly fortunate to be a self-diagnosed adult who never had to face ABA therapy, because just watching the videos in this article and reading the guidelines has me in actual tears and sick with rage. Maybe you can’t see it if you’re not autistic, but they treat these children in a way I would never even treat a dog. They treat them like things, like inconvenient problems to be solved, not human beings.

Why do they do that? Because the founder of ABA therapy said, “One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is you have to construct a person. You have the raw materials but you have to build the person.“

ABA therapy is founded on the belief that autistics are not human beings. That our needs and our feelings don’t matter, the only thing that matters is forcing us into the shape of a “real” person, no matter what kind of damage or trauma it causes. 

Please understand that autistic people behave the way we do for a reason. Because we’re overwhelmed, or upset, or in pain, or tired, or confused. Forcing the behavior to change doesn’t change the feelings, it just teaches a child that their feelings don’t matter and they have to suppress them in order to be good. Please value an autistic person’s needs over the appearance of normalcy. Please treat autistic children like human beings.

Oh, and if you needed any more incentive? The founder of ABA, O. Ivar Lovaas, was also instrumental in creating gay conversion therapy. 

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I 100% agree with this.

I curse fucking much, when im upset or even when im happy.

But i never ever yell slurs or any racist shit.

i just wanna say that slurs don’t just “slip out” when they aren’t part of your everyday vocabulary. the worst thing ive ever had slip out at an inappropriate time was an “oh fuck” when i messed up in art class, because i don’t use violent slurs that i have no right to say.

just remember that the next time your friend, or some youtuber, yells out a racist slur when he gets beat at a video game. it’s not the kind of thing that comes out by accident when you never use it usually.

Two years ago Hayley and James went into competitive hyper drive and had the internet freaking out all weekend. 

It was a beautiful weekend.

IM ALSO BEING FUCKING IGNORED!

I might have depression, social anxiety, autism, a eating disorder and a unhealthy lifestyle and cant function for shit.

But guess what.

Avocados are overrated

Me

Tony: what....is going on here?

Peter: oh! We started a class for some of the new aliens arriving to earth!

Shuri: we’re teaching them important fact of earth so they can understand humans better.

Harley: right now we’re covering important humans like *holds up picture of Beyoncé* who is this class?

Class: Beyoncé, queen of the United States.

Shuri: very good! Now, who is this?*holds up a picture of T’Challa*

Class: T’Challa, The king of dumb*ssery and freezing.

Peter: awesome! Now who’s this? *holds up picture of Tony*

Class: DAD!

Tony: *iron dad instinct activated* kids?

Pepper: OH FOR F*CK SAKES TONY, NOT AGAIN!

Me: wow i feel great today.

A friend: wow im so glad to hear that, you’ve been trough so much lately i hope you have more happy days coming.

Me trying not to burst in laughter: APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!! My life is still a mess and it get worse every day😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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