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[mamabearwonders]

if a kid stims loudly, let them be. telling them to stop is like telling someone to contain their joy or stop breathing loudly. autistic kids are on a higher vibration than most other people. they love, think & communicate in a way beyond just words, beyond neurotypical standards & boxes that don't exist. 🐳

[bookquotesfrombooks]

“The autistic community generally agrees that ABA is an abusive practice, yet most of the energy is spent on shaming frightened parents rather than ending institutional practices that target children of color.”

Jules Edwards

I Will Die On This Hill

[nyaagolor]

I like the Nemona autism post! Think you’ll make a comic about her friends like Arven, Penny, and MC helping her with her insecurities?

I have a really hard time with comics that aren't silly so I wrote this instead. SV quartet is both very fun to write and also a nightmare because none of them have an ounce of tact as a side effect of being 16. Anyways THANK U!!

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Violeta hadn’t realized Nemona was trailing off until the sudden silence snapped her back to attention. The others seemed to have noticed it too, because Arven had stopped mid-bread-buttering and Penny was doing a terrible job at pretending she wasn’t stealing glances at Nemona, her phone game abandoned. Nemona was already doing that thing that Violeta had come to expect from her, head slightly bowed and holding her braced arm to her chest like she was curling in on herself. She was the one to finally break the silence, and not to resume her rambling on the history of Johtoian boom teams. 

“Do you guys think I’m, like, annoying?” Nemona asked. She seemed genuinely bothered by this out of the blue revelation, fidgeting with her tie and furrowing her brows as she flicked her gaze to each of her friends in turn. Violeta was not proud of the way she paused. Arven frowned, his gaze laser focused on the sandwich in front of him. Penny made a little noise in the back of her throat, expression pinched as she struggled to find the right words. 

“Oh,” Nemona replied, the earlier enthusiasm gone from her voice like a deflated balloon. She shook her head and continued with a practiced monotony that sounded like she was reading off a script. “I’m uh… that was really inconsiderate of me. I’ll try to keep your interests in mind more when I talk. It’s rude to dominate conversations, and I… uh… sorry.” 

“Hey, uh,” Penny interrupted her, concern written all over her face. “You’re not annoying, just… a lot sometimes?” She grimaced as though finding the right words was physically painful. 

“Yeah!” Arven added. “I like hearing you talk about stuff. I don’t like, get it– I’m not smart like you– but it’s uh. Nice?”

“You’re not annoying,” Violeta finally said. “It’s just… you talk a lot about stuff most people don’t care about.”

Nemona looked completely crestfallen. “Yeah,” she said, back to fidgeting with her tie. “I um. I realized you all looked really bored and I didn’t really know when you started looking bored and I realized I was probably annoying you all but you were too afraid to say anything, my mom always says I’m kinda intimidating when I'm like this and that’s why no one wants to be my friend. And, uh, the doctor tells me that people don’t like it when someone talks too much because they look selfish and I’m not like that, I care about your interests too but it’s re–”

“Hey,” Arven cut her off, looking wildly uncomfortable. “That’s not, I don’t think… That’s not true.”

“Which part?” Nemona asked. Arven waved the butter knife around like he could pluck the words out of the air. 

“All that weird stuff you were talking about, the whole uh, no one wanting to be your friend thing. We’re your friends.” Penny nodded along. “I actually like it when you talk a lot, it means I don’t have to. It’s cool when you talk about stuff and I can just be on my phone or whatever. It makes things not awkward.”

“I’m not bored,” Violeta added. “And I don’t think Penny is either, her face just looks like that.”

Penny shot a look Violeta’s way, huffing. 

“Yeah!” Arven reaffirmed. “It’s nice when you talk about stuff you like while I’m making sandwiches, it’s kinda calming in a way.”

“I just like hearing my friend talk about something she likes,” Violeta said.

Nemona’s expression started to brighten. “Really? You’re not mad?”

Arven waved a hand. “Ramble away.”

“Sometimes you just gotta infodump,” Penny reaffirmed, getting a quizzical look from Violeta and Arven. Nemona sat back, smile back on her face as she bounced her leg and stared up at the sky. Nemona’s excited rambling came back as quickly as it had gone, gaining confidence with each word. 

“Ok, where was I…”

[thmollusk]

me and my autism vs. the aba therapy supporting autism and disability awareness hr person at my work who will win

[piedoesnotequalpi]

The insomnia sure is insomnia-ing but I am unexpectedly emotional over seeing some random parent from my hometown trying to do right by her neurodivergent kid

[blueberry-sleight]

If you are a parent to an autistic child, read this

hi- please avoid the account ‘ababehaviorservices.’ applied behevioral therapy (what they are advertizing) is highly traumatizing and seeks to supress your child’s personality. One of the main things they seek to eliminate in your child is ‘stimming’, which is repetive movements that autistics and some non-autistics do to calm themselves or express happiness. As a parent, I’m sure you want calmness and happiness for your child. Aba will take that away. 

[barnbridges]

twofers and autism moms on the venn diagram should be like, 80% overlapping and 20% out, but it's so rare to see anyone with actual autism or awareness of that it's a fucking disability hang around the mommy circles it disappoints me endlessly.

[rachdie]

Diantara kesalahan terbesar ayah adalah tidak hadir di dalam keluarga. Tidak mau turut andil di dalam mendidik isteri dan anak-anaknya dengan alasan sibuk dengan kewajiban mencari nafkah. Padahal, kewajiban ayah bukan hanya kerja cari nafkah, tapi juga mendidik, membimbing, mengarahkan, membersamai, melindungi dst keluarganya. Kaidahnya : فالاشتغال بأحد الواجبات لا يسوغ ترك واجب آخر Sibuk dengan salah satu kewajiban tidak boleh meninggalkan kewajiban yang lain. #parentingislam #islamicparenting #parentingquote #doa #parenting #pengasuhan #pengasuhananak #pengasuhanislam #pendidikananak #pendidikanislam #ayah #father #aba #abuya #abati #papa #pemimpinkeluarga (at Jambangan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmmzimOhQs6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hael987]

I absolutely loathe how brains work sometimes, like where is the delete button. Why does it insist in holding onto trash memories.

I hate that all it takes is a few innocuous phrases said in close enough succession to each other and then you’re forced to relive and remember things rather left forgotten.

All it took was someone to say ‘metre stick’ and ‘personal space’ close enough together, not even immediate succession, then I’m immediately transported back to when I’m just a child, where my dad is “jokingly” (a realisation of many years in hindsight) threatening to attach metre sticks to me if I “couldn’t learn the appropriate distance for personal space fast enough”.

And now as a grown adult I’m forced to remember that simply because of some ordinary words. It doesn’t seem right. It shouldn’t work like that.

And now all my in-person interactions are going to be clouded by this memory and thoughts, probably for the next week at the very least. I’m not going to be able to meet with a person and not constantly worry about whether I’m leaving the appropriate amount of distance, as well as the fear of some kind of retribution if I mess it up accidentally.

An entire week ruined and for what? Seriously where is the delete button.

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

Okay why does this make so much sense???

I was diagnosed with autism when I was three years old and enrolled in an intensive ABA program, which attempted to use operant conditioning to train me out of acting autistic. One of the things that always confused me, reading over the ABA practitioner's notes decades later, is just how sweeping the category of "autistic problem behaviors" they were trying to extinguish in me was.

For instance, one such “autistic problem behavior” was my "reluctance to attend to non-preferred activities". When I was asked to do something I didn’t want to do, sometimes I would say 'no' or even cry before relenting and doing what I was told. Which is indeed uniquely disordered behavior, because neurotypical toddlers are famously obsequious angels who relish being ordered to do things they hate! (/sarcasm)

In all seriousness though, it's alarming that perfectly standard toddler stubbornness was something the ABA therapists felt they needed to condition out of me. It wasn't enough I learn to be indistinguishable from my non-autistic peers (which is already a messed up goal in its own right), the standard of “neurotypicality” I was told to aspire to seemed nothing short of being a perfectly obedient automaton. 

None of this made sense back when I thought neurotypicality was about normalcy. But it does now that I realize neurotypicality is, and always was, about control

it does more harm than good to prop up the myth of the ‘neurotypical’ who completes tasks cheerfully with no issues. this person is a capitalist fantasy. the more you define yourself in comparison to this myth the more you justify social structures staying the same with minor accommodations to the ‘exceptions’ and the continued pathologizing of discomfort under hostile conditions

[autismcenterofexcellence]

[vamptastic]

i am like. very good at seeming normal and thinking back a lot of my coping (and masking, idrk) skills come from my old girl scout troop leader yelling at me. miss debbie you made those meetings a living hell but i did appreciate your wisdom when it came to backpacking and fire safety

[ababehaviorservices]

Empowering Parents: Behavior Therapist Insights on Self-Care

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[overclockedopossum]

Yeah geez

"Humanizing: [...] so that behavior is on me."

This is just an excuse to hate disabled people. The whole point of diagnosis is to understand how people experience the world differently, which is vital when it comes to invisible disabilities.

Without diagnosis, people like me who have invisibile disabilities are just shit. They act wrong because they're shit. They can't do things because they're shit. They can't handle situations because they're shit.

There are some symptoms that you can explain without diagnosis if people have time to be patient with you but when it comes to things like RSD it's vital evidence that you're not just being a dick for the sake of being a dick.

I don't personally have RSD. But if someone does, a situation where they "blow up" is one that really fucking sucks for them. They are having an extremely bad time. The condition is a vulnerability to an extremely intense Bad Feeling in situations that most people are fine with, and the disabled person is likely already putting an absolute fuckload of effort into trying to manage that.

If a NT person has a bad interaction with someone who has RSD because of the RSD, it isn't the disabled person to blame. It's the RSD to blame and both people share the fact that they had a bad time as a result.

And you know what it does to understand that? It actually humanises the disabled person.

Sick list of symptoms bro. Now try humanizing your behavior instead of pathologizing it.

[jojangeorge]

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