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I went to a consultation event. There, an autistic adult who had been put through ABA. We chatted. All through the chat, he was making direct eye contact with me, with no clue what it meant, and attempting to smile throughout...which was a problem, because he was actually really sad and was crying. His life had fallen apart once he got to university, he said. ABA hadn't given him the skills he needed for real life. He knew to stare and smile, and wear a business suit, and say Polite Professional Things - but his quality of life, as an person, was now so bad that he couldn't cope. He couldn't be 'non-autistic' any more.
Ann's Autism Blog: Applied Behaviour Analysis - Personal Reflections
annsautism.blogspot.de
Mag sein, dass es nie wieder auf der Welt Konzentrationslager mit
Gaskammern geben wird, aber dass Staaten Völkermorde auch im 21. Jahrhundert
staatlich legitimiert durchführen, sehen wir an Syrien. Da wurde das Gas in die
Städte geschossen. Und wir sehen auch, dass Europa nicht willens ist, dem
Einhalt zu gebieten. Egal in welcher Form. Es findet einfach keine europäische
Intervention statt. Stattdessen schaut man zu, wie Menschen vor dieser
Katastrophe weglaufen.
AfD: Das Dreamteam Des Volksempfindens | ZEIT ONLINE
zeit.de
Each time I went on stage and made a disparaging joke about my disability to put a non-disabled audience at ease, I played further into that mechanism. While me being onstage disrupted the status quo, I was diffusing that tension by reinforcing my otherness. Over time I grew uncomfortable, resenting the jokes I thought were necessary to be accepted by audiences.
Ophira Calof on Unravelling Ableism From Comedy
Ophira Calof
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