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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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P.S. doesn’t just relieve stress, and ABAers aren’t “unwittingly” grooming kids for exploitation. and otherwise scholars, activists, and survivors have been saying violates and nonhuman for decades. As Leonard Cohen said, “Everybody knows.”

#stimming #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #aba #behaviorism #humanrights #animalrights #SayNoToABA #AllABA #BanABA #abaistorture

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Per Paulo Freire, “An act is oppressive only when it prevents people from being more fully human.”

Committing prevents people, particularly groups, from being more fully human.

Conversely, to is to permit people to be more fully human.

#abaabuse #neurominority #BanABA #SayNoToABA

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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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Last year, I made a MoveOn petition to flip the Senate, so that the Minnesota DFL Party could pass a comprehensive ban on all forms of , including , but SF 23 excludes , which is the basis for modern conversion therapy.

revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?

#minnesota #conversiontherapy #AllABA #abaabuse #SayNoToABA

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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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“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

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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

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Bruce W. Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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Behaviorists presume they can use operant conditioning strategies to make neuroqueer children meet neuronormative standards of behavior. Not only is behaviorism a long-discredited pseudoscientific ideology, enforcing neuronormativity is just as bigoted as enforcing heteronormativity. Behaviorism kills creativity, inflicts trauma, and grooms children for sexual exploitation. There’s no such thing as “non-aversive” strategies because rewards are, to quote Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, “control through seduction.” And as Alfie Kohn wrote, “control of any variety is aversive.”

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