hey so long story short im living with my abuser again until i can find a new place because my apartment was unlivable. i know i make a lot of posts asking for help, but if y'all could signal boost this and donate it’d be a lifesaver. i need to get out of my abuser’s house asap, as living with them is detrimental to my mental and physical health. i genuinely can’t live like this.
PayPal.me/astrovagant
venmo: asterlux
YA novel: what if you were sorted into an arbitrary category at birth and that defined your entire life and you were harshly punished for trying to break out of it
me in like 8th grade: wow this is really compelling and relatable for me. and theres no possible reason why
taken from this interview
“You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense - they have hair, a nose, and a mouth— but they are not people in the psychological sense. One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person.“
“They have tantrums, and believe me they are monsters, little monsters.“
“Spank them, and spank them good. They bite you and you just turn them over your knee and give them one good whack on the rear and that pretty well does it. This is what we do best; we are very good at controlling these kinds of behaviors.“
“We stay close to them and when they hurt themselves we scream “no” as loud as we can and we look furious and at the same time we shock them.”
“We know the shocks are painful; we have tried them on ourselves and we know that they hurt. But it is stressful for the person who does the shocking too.”
“Bound to a bed. The child would be bound to a bed spread-eagled so that he could not get to himself. …I remember a kid named John who had been in restraints for years.”
This guy also was one of the people who invented gay conversion therapy. In case that does a better job of putting this in perspective.
please tell me they were put in jail for child abuse
No he was honored as a genius and his practices are still being used on autistic children as the most common therapy practice for autism
Also shock therapy is still being used on disabled people
ABA is garbage, here’s some info on why.
“That’s right…. my son’s paediatrician says that my autistic way of parenting supports my son too well for him to be traumatised enough for a diagnosis, so we should let school traumatise him and come back later…
…Which brings me to thinking about how we identify autism in the children who are now being raised by autistic parents in a respectful and supportive way. The children who have experienced acceptance of their autistic neurology from birth and who have never been exposed to harmful therapies.
Autistic children raised by accepting parents, often autistic themselves.”
This is close to what happened to me. I was raised in a rural area, home schooled and put into very few situations where overstimulation could be be a problem, so my ‘symptoms’ didn’t manifest until I was much older and began to be put into new situations I couldn’t handle. By then doctors thought it couldn’t be autism because I was ‘normal’ before.
It just goes to show you how much of a factor modern day society is in how autism presents. Its cool that there are awesome parents who get this, but I wish doctors would realize it too.
