#any form of therapy can be done incorrectly if the therapist themself is incompetent-which plenty of them are

[lobotomy-lady]

If you look up ABA therapy on here the majority of it will be people calling it abuse. I really hate to be that guy but it's hard for me to take these claims super seriously because 90% of their reasons for being traumatized by it are things like "they made me make eye contact and sit still and it was uncomfortable" or "they made me feel like there was something wrong with me and infantilized me". I have no doubt people use it in abusive ways, but I'm just not sure these reasons they're listing are. Even the very worst things they list (such as being infantilized) are just the therapists being assholes, not abusive.

those people really sound like whiny babies lmao like as a person who was abused as a child, saying "a therapist tried to use positive reinforcement to get me to behave in a more appropriate manner" is child abuse is just fucking ridiculous. it's always kids whose parents bent over backwards to help them who are the first to complain. SO many autistic kids are actually abused for being autistic!! I'm talking kids being beaten by their caregivers, locked in rooms alone & neglected, screamed at & called horrible things, etc...but sure you were abused bc you were uncomfortable for a few minutes while in therapy. god it's ridiculous. it reminds me of that trans substitute teacher who got fired for her weird social media presence & then said she was the victim of a hate crime. like sorry but what happened to you isn't even in the same universe as someone being physically assaulted for being gay lol