Hi there,
Sorry if the WakeUp tag is inappropriate, but we and our community certainly need to imho.
Noticed a lot of things turning up on autism reddit about ABA.
The slant of the government's Autism Act is to provide services to 'support' people with autism within society, not brainwash and coerce them to alter their behaviour to better match society's desires. It flies in the very face of the government's alleged and actuated policies.
Sure, if you hit someone enough, either physically or mentally, they are going to change their behaviour. But you are going to permanently scar them in the process if the behaviour is inherent to the individual on both a genetic and mental processing level.
It is, in my belief, no way the desire of, or to the benefit of, the autistic community to be horsewhipped into social compliance to their mental detriment; and far as I see it flies in the face of the government's stated policies regarding autism.
What the hell can we autistics do to stop this diabolical practice?
If this isn't stomped on fast we'll have places like America does where electrocution torture is used to instil fear of displaying natural behaviour.
Who do we approach to represent us in this? I'll be damned if I can find a way to contact NAS directly about it and see if they are bothering to take the implications seriously.
