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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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I don’t have the time nor the energy to retype an important thread I just posted on Twitter, so if you could please read and share it, I’d thoroughly appreciate it. Thanks.

twitter.com/brucewwenzel/statu

#neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #BanABA #AllABA

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Kevin Flynn is a coded character?

He made Clu, his Tulpa, to “create the perfect system.”

Many and people are Plural.

Attempting to convert Plurals into singlets is

Per @autismsupsoc, “there is absolutely no proof that singlets exist.”

#didyouknow #plural #autistic #kinetic #conversiontherapy #pluralgang #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #neuroqueer #neurodivergent #tuesdaythoughts #tuesdayvibes

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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#actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #askingautistics #pluralgang #mayday #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #gocoop #SelfDirectedEducation #mondaymorning #mondayinspiration #mondaythoughts #mondaymotivation

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gato · @gato
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How are autistic, kinect (adhd) folks experience with driving?

I dislike driving, but I do it. I live in a rural area and having a car and being able to drive makes life much easier.

My tendency is to be a careful driver. To go within speed limits, to be very careful when overtaking other vehicles, asking for help when manouvering in tight spaces. These mean, being the slow car on the road (even if Im going at the max speed limit) with a big line of cars behind me. It means being behind a slow truck for long distances while on a road trip, because I dont feel its safe to overtake them. It means feeling like Im the stupid female (Im not a woman, but people read me that way) that confirms the stereotype that women don't know how to drive.

All those are characteristics Ive learned are associated with bad drivers. While driving I feel this pressure of behaving like "good drivers" do. Like going faster, overtaking other vehicles promptly, being able to maneuver the car without help.

I know this pressure is stupid. I fight it in my head. I know behaving like a good driver is not a good reason to do things I feel are unsafe for me and others on the road. But its hard. Sometimes, I cave in. I wonder am I such a careful driver because Im not confident in my abilities? Maybe I should be more confident. Maybe I should act like other drivers.

All the times I made mistakes while driving and caused accidents (never anything serious, usually accidents while manouvering the car slowly), were because I caved in to this pressure. I decided not ask for help when I felt I needed, or I did some manouver I was unsure about but insisted on it anyway. I was tired of fighting this pressure of behaving like a "good driver" I was tired of being careful, of being anxious and just wanted to get it done.

Im really afraid of the time I make a mistake like this and it leads to a serious accident.

@actuallyautistic @adhd

#actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #adhd

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Modern stems from , a manifestation of which is , a system of rewards and punishments pioneered by O. Ivar Lovaas in the early 1960s to try to make and otherwise kids “indistinguishable from their peers.”

Many are also members of the + community, as we experience and by extension express , , and differently.

Thus, is not only , it’s also , , , , and a ton of other things because there are obviously neurodivergent people in every minority group.

#conversiontherapy #behaviorism #abaabuse #ucla #psychologist #autistic #neurodivergent #neurominorities #lgbtqia #gender #Sexuality #romance #aba #neuralist #queerphobic #racist #classist #sexist #fuckaba #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #abolishbehaviorism #neurodiversity #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #thursdaythoughts #thursdayvibes

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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#neurokin #abaisabuse #happyvalentinesday #BanABA #tuesdaymorning #tuesdaymotivation #tuesdayvibe #valentinesday2023 #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #autisticpoetry

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Teaching to the test/curriculum is a practice.

To quote @alfiekohn, “Every hour spent on such exam preparation is an hour not spent helping students to become critical, creative, curious learners.”

is one of many ways we can/must pedagogy.

#neuronormative #ungrading #neuroqueer #fridaymorning #fridayfeeling #fridaythoughts #fridaymotivation #academia #education #school #learning #CriticalPedagogy #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #Unlearning #fridayfun

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Old ABA: If you don’t behave the way we want you to, we’ll hate (hit) you.

New ABA: If you do behave the way we want you to, we’ll love (hug) you.

Both approaches are inherently coercive; the former is control through punishment, and the latter is what Edward Deci and Richard Ryan dubbed “control through seduction.”

#fuckaba #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #abolishbehaviorism #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #neurodivergentliberation #fridaymorning #fridayfeeling #fridaythoughts #fridaymotivation

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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#capitalism #socialism #communism #anarchism #leftist #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #wageslavery #tuesdayvibe #tuesdaythoughts #neurodivergentliberation

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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The enforcers of neuronormativity—the executives of behaviorist intervention industries, politicians, doctors, police, parents, teachers, peers, employers, abusive partners, coercive people in general—conflate “compliance” with “politeness.”

Indeed, part of recovering from internalized oppression means realizing you needn’t be polite to your oppressors.

#neuronormativity #neuroqueer #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #autisticpride #AutisticJoy #mondaymorning #mondayvibes #BanABA #AllABA

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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“Capitalism develops productive resources, but it does so in the interests of the small ruling class that is motivated by making profit and so creates distress and disadvantage for neurodivergent people. By reorganising society on a socialist basis, with a democratically-planned economy geared towards human need not private profit, we can start to remove those barriers and problems that capitalism creates and make a more inclusive, less discriminatory society.”

— Janine Booth

#WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #gocoop #BanABA #AllABA #neurodivergentliberation #neurodiversity #capitalism #socialism #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #sundayvibes #sundaymotivation

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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You know how I know NDs are just as human as NTs?

A lot of them are assholes, too.

But that still doesn’t resolve the social power inequalities.

#WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #gocoop #neurodivergentliberation #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #neuroqueer #sundayvibes

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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“The late Herb Lovett used to say that there are only two problems with ‘special education’ in America: It’s not special and it sure as hell isn’t education. The field continues to be marinated in behaviorist assumptions and practices despite the fact that numerous resources for teachers, therapists, and parents offer alternatives to behavior control.”

— Alfie Kohn

#fuckaba #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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#neuromeme #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang

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Autistic Voices United (El) · @autismsupsoc
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#autism #Autistic #ASD #adhd #AuDHD #matrix #redpill #bluepill #whynotboth #neo #morphius #kinetism #KineticAutistic

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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As founding president of the Activists and Graduate Studies Senator of the 90th Student Government, I want all my who’ve survived to know that I a to and transform State (formerly Mankato Normal School) into a university wherein, to quote scholar @DrNicky, there will be “no such thing as neurotypicality, no such thing as a ‘normal mind.’”

This will require converting the enterprise into a that, as Walker told Dora Raymaker in 2021, “accepts and welcomes neurocognitive differences in experience, communication, and embodiment in the same sort of enlightened way that a cosmopolitan individual accepts and welcomes cultural differences in dining habits.”

neuroqueer.com/wp-content/uplo

#neurodiversity #neurokin #abaabuse #amwriting #NewYearsResolution #abolishbehaviorism #minnesota #mankato #neuroqueer #queer #autistic #neuronormative #capitalist #workerowned #cooperative #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #fuckaba #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #saturdaymorning #saturdayvibes

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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If truly cared about improving the health and well-being of people, they wouldn’t be behaviorists; they’d be neurodivergent-affirming practitioners. Quit disparaging activists and defending pseudoscience that’s been used to reduce democracy and oppress minority groups for 70-ish years.

#behaviorists #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurominorities #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #saturdaynight #saturdayvibes #abaharms #abaisabuse #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #AutisticLiberation #neurodivergentliberation

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Bruce W. Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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What if we stopped spending money on pseudoscientific behaviorist “interventions” like Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), which O. Ivar Lovaas used to make kids “indistinguishable from their peers,” and provided neurodivergent-affirming services?

medium.com/@brucewwenzel/are-w

@autismsupsoc

#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #neuromeme #tuesdaythoughts

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Bruce W. Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Medium - Are We Really a Democracy? - Bruce W. Wenzel - Medium

@JoelN Minority groups have been wrongfully pathologized to justify social hierarchies under for centuries. Indeed, it wasn’t until May 17, 1990 that the World Health Organization depathologized homosexuality. The pathologization of , on the other hand, persists. As a consequence, , a pseudoscientific ideology designed to enforce compliance, lives on in dehumanizing practices like Applied Behavior Analysis and its insidious derivatives. Indeed, even grading is a behaviorist method, for it rewards obedience. Please read or listen to my latest post on Medium to learn why we must democratize and replace behaviorism with pedagogy.

medium.com/@brucewwenzel/are-w

#capitalism #neurominorities #behaviorism #education #neuroqueer #solidarityforever #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #queer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #socialjustice #mondaymotivation

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Bruce W. Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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"Worker-owned cooperatives like Mondragon University in Basque Country, Spain provide a blueprint to build a more inclusive and by extension neurocosmopolitan environment, something Minnesota State Mankato and the Minnesota Legislature should pursue."

Please read or listen to my newly self-published article advocating for the democratization of and the abolition of

medium.com/@brucewwenzel/are-w

#education #behaviorism #neurodiversity #KineticAutistic #actuallyautistic #socialism #neurodivergentliberation

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