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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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@marenf That’s the third time somebody has said that to me. To summarize, behaviorism is pseudoscience, but the capitalists love it because, to quote Noam Chomsky, “it gave them a moral right to control and dominate people.” Hence the need to

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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.

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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.”

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Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
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#neurodiversity #solidarity #abolishbehaviorism #neurodivergentliberation #socialism

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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.”

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