“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.”
— Noam Chomsky
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Modern #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
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
“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
As 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
What if we stopped spending money on pseudoscientific behaviorist “interventions” like Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), which O. Ivar Lovaas used to make #Autistic kids “indistinguishable from their peers,” and provided neurodivergent-affirming services?
https://medium.com/@brucewwenzel/are-we-really-a-democracy-a465a88f43da
#Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #Neuroqueer #ActuallyAutistic #KineticAutistic #ABAharms #ABAisAbuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #PBSfails #Neuromeme #TuesdayThoughts @autismsupsoc
#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic #KineticAutistic #abaharms #abaisabuse #YesAllABA #SayNoToABA #BanABA #AllABA #PBSisABA #pbsfails #neuromeme #tuesdaythoughts