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Therapy for Autistic Behaviour?

Xanadu

Hello

I'm not sure if I totally resent the idea of therapy for autistic behaviour!  At a first glance it feels like maybe having therapy so that you can 'fit in' and be more neurotypical.  On the other hand, objectively could that be useful?

I guess for me some help around the sensory stuff would be personally useful to me.  I'm not sure though if it's right that I have therapy to dilute my autism to make it more palatable to other people.

I don't have 'challenging behaviour' unless you determine brutal truth as challenging.  I think some people do.  I overload with detail which can be a bit challenging to people.  I don't threaten violence.  I'm never actually violent but I do say just what I think!  I do not lie.

Has anyone had any therapy for Autism, what did you have it for, what kind of therapy did you have and did you think it helped you or made a difference?

Is there anything that you'd recommend? 

Thanks in advance.

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  • in reply to Xanadu

    Loololl, that special smell of educational halitosis!

    Why the kissing? Because the guy was obviously abusing his role of trust to enact sadistic sexual urges towards children. Watch the documentary. There is no other logical conclusion. You can say I'm bad minded or paranoid but the look of excitement and glee on his face towards a totally distraught pre-teen girl was just wrong. ******* sicko. The girl didn't like to be touched, never mind kissed. How can kissing help a child that doesn't like to be touched. There is a big jump between the two. ABA seems pretty uncomfortable at best, sadistic routinely but this was something beyond comprehension.

    Sorry for the rant but yeah it still makes my skin crawl.

  • in reply to Song

    The Americanization of the UK! I spoke to a Autism worker about ABA who has been in the field for about 20 years. I mentioned my distain of ABA and she was enraged about its introduction and popularisation. She's normally a placid and calm person. She was swearing and ranting. Rightfully so. I think that it won't catch on. Lots of people abhorr it. It's like something from a Josef Mengele fever dream.

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    Wow!  Teachers and coffee breath!  That's a human rights violation surely?  I'm with you on that.  Why the kissing?  Very odd.

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    The worst thing is that ABA is currently used and recommend in the UK as treatment for autistic children to make them more'"normal" 

  • in reply to Endymion

    It made me so angry to watch. The fact that the "teacher" had chosen a mute girl just made me want to stomp out the guy. It stank of sexual abuse. Very, very creepy. The therapy itself was cruel but the way the "teacher" was handling the girl wasn't appropriate. I haven't got kids but that made me question the parents too. It was bad.

  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    Bloody Hell!! This sounds sadistic, I'd be shocked to my core if the NHS still does things like this! That particular example is something I know I'd react quite violently to. I can't see how that method could 'cure' anyone of anything unless by 'cure' they're aiming for a catatonic state of shock.  

  • in reply to Endymion

    Applied behaviour analysis. If you've read 1984, its like locking a child in Room 101 with their triggers and repeating for ages. There was a documentary on BBC not long ago (the Chris Packham one) and they "treated" a girl who hated being touched by getting her 50 odd year old "teacher" to kiss her repeatedly. She was mute. It was the creepiest and cruelest thing I've seen in a long time. If anyone wanted to kiss my junior school aged daughter, ASD or not, repeatedly I'd be in jail for GBH. It was horrific.