Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
158 followers · 180 posts · Server kolektiva.social
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.”
— Noam Chomsky
#FridayNight #FridayThoughts #FridayFeeling #FridayMotivation #FridayVibes #AcademicChatter #FuckABA #ABAharms #ABAisAbuse #YesAllABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #PBSfails #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #GoCoOp #Socialism #Communism #Anarchism #Leftist #AntiCapitalism
#fridaynight #fridaythoughts #fridayfeeling #fridaymotivation #fridayvibes #academicchatter #fuckaba #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #gocoop #socialism #communism #anarchism #leftist #anticapitalism
Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
156 followers · 156 posts · Server kolektiva.socialModern #ConversionTherapy stems from #behaviorism, a manifestation of which is #ABAabuse, a system of rewards and punishments pioneered by #UCLA #psychologist O. Ivar Lovaas in the early 1960s to try to make #Autistic and otherwise #neurodivergent kids “indistinguishable from their peers.”
Many #neurominorities are also members of the #LGBTQIA+ community, as we experience and by extension express #gender, #sexuality, and #romance differently.
Thus, #ABA is not only #neuralist, it’s also #queerphobic, #racist, #classist, #sexist, and a ton of other things because there are obviously neurodivergent people in every minority group.
#FuckABA #ABAharms #ABAisAbuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #PBSfails #AbolishBehaviorism #Neurodiversity #Neuroqueer #ActuallyAutistic #KineticAutistic #PluralGang #ThursdayThoughts #ThursdayVibes
#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
Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
145 followers · 128 posts · Server kolektiva.social
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
#fuckaba #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #abolishbehaviorism #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang #neurodivergentliberation #fridaymorning #fridayfeeling #fridaythoughts #fridaymotivation
Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
116 followers · 86 posts · Server kolektiva.social
“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
#fuckaba #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #pluralgang
Bruce Wenzel · @brucewwenzel
114 followers · 83 posts · Server kolektiva.socialAs founding president of the #Neurodiversity Activists and Graduate Studies Senator of the 90th Student Government, I want all my #neurokin who’ve survived #ABAabuse to know that I #AmWriting a #NewYearsResolution to #AbolishBehaviorism and transform #Minnesota State #Mankato (formerly Mankato Normal School) into a #neuroqueer university wherein, to quote #queer #Autistic scholar @DrNicky, there will be “no such thing as neurotypicality, no such thing as a ‘normal mind.’”
This will require converting the #neuronormative #capitalist enterprise into a #WorkerOwned #cooperative 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.”
https://neuroqueer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Walker-2021-Toward-a-neuroqueer-future.pdf
#ABAharms #ABAisAbuse #YesAllABA #FuckABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #PBSfails #ActuallyAutistic #KineticAutistic #PluralGang #SaturdayMorning #SaturdayVibes
#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
dublinstinkt · @dublinstinkt
810 followers · 4583 posts · Server todon.nldie vertretungs-schulassistenzmeines klienten hat heute von meinem klienten eingefordert ihm die hand zu geben und ihm dabei in die augen zu schauen...
mir ist mal kurz der arsch geplatzt, und der dude guckte mich total schockiert an, weil die klassenleiterin ja will, dass...
und ich will diese #förderschule jetzt anzünden einfach!
#FuckABA - was soll diese konformistische nötigungsscheiße?
der junge autist hatte jahrelang ne geile lehrerin mit zwar komischen ideen, aber ohne anspruch jemanden zu konformität zu erziehen, und jetzt diese neue!
in einer situation in der sein ganzes umfeld zusammenbricht bzw auseinanderfällt und eigentlich nur schule und wir als konstanten vorhanden sind. und dann kommt die und fängt an absolut unnötiger stelle an, an dem jungen rumzupfuschen! wa soll die scheiße?
netterweise hat der junge mann ansonsten nen coolen schulassistenten, der diese scheiße nicht mitspielt - aber gesagt hat er auch nix... ich wäre doch schon viel früher amok gelaufen, hätte ich das mitbekommen...