#anti-ABA

[bluemoonsystemrq]

Anti-ABA activists and anti-psych activists are holding hands, they're best friends, send post.

[pleaseletmeexist]

[demiboydemon]

Me: Miss Internet, I’ve been having a tough time lately. Could you please show me some relaxation and self care tips for autistic adults?

Internet: you should try ABA to learn to mask better :)

Me: ????

[pigeon-cave]

Just keep stimming 👐

[antivivziepopparade]

Heyo! Raysquid/Mr.Sandman/Ms. Sandman here! 💗✨💗

Decided to make another blog due to my other account being corrupted. -and here is my new dni:

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Proshippers.

Vivziepop supporters.

Lolicons.

Zoophilliacs.

TERFS.

Bigots in general.

Along with my description:

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So with that all said and done!

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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. 🐳

[itty-bitty-playhouse]

Oooo yay time to put one of my obsessions into agere stuff cause who's gonna stop me!!! :D Time to show regression in a way I usually don't that's just as helpful!!

I think A.B.A. deserves to regress; she wouldn't admit that or actively try to but she does and I love it.

I know she woke up next to Paracelsus loosely lying on a bed- it's queen-sized cause he's big- and just cuddling with him. They just cuddle while the clingy baby(she says she's still a big girl) babbles about loving Para and how he makes the bad thoughts go away while chewing her nails. Para just lets her babble, occasionally reminding her not to bite them so much, and telling her it's okay.

AND ITS JUST A NORMAL MORNING FOR THEM!! It's not weird and out of the blue; Para definitely doesn't mind or care and A.B.A. would fall asleep again, wake up, make some food, and go out with Para for the day!

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

fuck ABA

that’s all thank you for listening

[clownrecess]

(TW: Talk of ABA, trauma, abuse, self offing, etc.)

ABA is abusive whether you want to admit it or not. It just is.

It doesn't "depend on the therapist", it is abusive by nature. The abuse and trauma inducing experiences are deeply rooted in it.

"Oh, well ours is basically just some OT and speech", that's not ABA, then. Whilst yes, OT and speech do very much have the ability to be abusive, ABA always is. A combination of some in home OT and speech is not ABA.

So what is ABA? ABA stands for applied behavioural analysis. It is a "therapy" that parents of autistic people are usually pushed to do. And often times, the parents agree! Whether that's because the insurance covers it, or because the school told them to, or whatever, they tend to accept it.

I was one of the people who's parents accepted it.

I was in ABA for a little over a year, I would have been in it much longer but eventually I was taken out because I threatened to off myself if I remained in it. And this didnt work immediately, I had been threatening this for months. I'm not sure why it finally worked.

ABA likes to trick you at the start. My therapists in particular referred to this tricking as the "honeymoon phase". In this phase, they would act like my friends. They made me trust them.

We would talk about our interests, and play games together.

It felt safe, and I liked it!

Until it changed, that is. About two months into ABA, they stopped being like my friends.

It went from me happily playing chess with him, to him yelling at me, a child hiding under a table, because I didn't say what he wanted me to say.

And this of course evolved too. And I was further traumatized.

I was tricked, and then abused by the hands of so called therapists.

It has been around 2, almost 3 years since this. I am still extremely frightened by anything remotely related to those experiences.

I had a panic attack in a water park because somebody looked **slightly** like one of them.

Please don't put your kid in ABA. I don't care how helpful you think it'll be.

[fenrichaita]

Honestly, I feel like people really don't get it. When it comes to issues like the fact that ABA is inherently abusive, some people understand that it is wrong... But the lesson I see them really internalizing is that abuse is wrong towards a specific group of people. It's wrong to abuse autistic people because they are ~neurodivergent~ which is a neutral or even positive thing and it's offensive to frame neurodivergency as a disease. Yet, when it comes to mental illness or personality disorders, people are much more eager to dehumanize because the public perceptions of these disorders are framed around pathology and suffering. Especially when it comes to disorders that are considered "scary", even the neurodiversity pride group seems more likely to accept that abuse is necessary once it is applied to a group who arbitrarily isn't considered ND.

It's especially frustrating because a lot of the same principles that make ABA inherently traumatizing and violent apply to the way that the mental health system addresses and treats people with other disorders.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

what if we held on to whatever we get the idea of as Normal as unquestionable & think all you can do to this normal is apply some veneers overtop it to be more polite & also resent that. maybe we could project that everyone who seems to be Annoyingly Disruptively doing more than this must be putting on a performance to look good &/or humor others b/c that's all we ever believe we're doing, & again, we resent even that much....maybe we could use our show of More Polite language to make the same points blaming everyone who our Normal mistreats for their own mistreatment

[peanutbutterandbananasandwichs]

I think autistic self advocacy really needs to get louder about the connection between ABA "therapy" and conversion "therapy" because I'm fucking TIRED of seeing allistic queers talk about ABA as a good thing, or even practice it themselves and thinking they are doing some great service to the kids they work with. Instead of deeply fucking traumatising them.

[sailing-ever-west]

ABA companies stop sending me job ads challenge impossible

I get grossed out every time. For those of you who haven't seen these ads here's what I mean:

They basically always only require a high school degree/GED, with the idea that you'll be trained on the job. I can't even be a graphic designer or a content writer without a bachelor's degree but working with highly impressionable kids? Lol you don't need to be educated you just need to listen to ussss the company making money off of themmmm hahaaa

The role of providing treatment is called Behavior Technician. I know this is drawn from other medical positions but the implications are not great because while a different medical technician may be doing things like manipulating equipment and the functions of the human body, what are you doing if your job is to manipulate behavior? How is that something to be treated like a form of engineering?

Reviews online are always sparse, mostly from employees, then parents, and last of all if you look really hard you might find one from an actual autistic person.

"Autism experience through family/friends is a plus!" hey what about autism experience through BEING AUTISTIC

On the last one I looked up, there were reddit reviews from employees and parents saying "RUN," so take that as you will

I think you get the gist. Frick ABA.

[anewkindofme]

Autistic Kol Mikaelson

[kiki-strike]

has anyone who knows anything about stuff heard about aba for verbal adults? was (very strongly) recommended this by my evaluator but then she sent me a link to an autism speaks article and i hate them. and i’m very iffy based on how i’ve seen aba go for other people (who were very different from me but still same therapy) so idk if i should trust her on this one? not that i should trust random internet people more but like. anybody got thoughts? experiences? articles?

[mamabearwonders]

You'll never see people who are autistic defending it. Usually if they are, they've been conditioned to believe that their needs and accommodations are inconveniences to ableists who are behind these therapies.

As an educator and a person who's helped free kids from abusive psych wards, foster care & juvie my whole life, I stand up for the kids not the "experts" behind the therapies who never consult autistic kids or value their autonomy.