Mu looking away from the lamp in the living room. Noticing this we removed the lamps.Sometimes, all of us have meltdowns. Not slight upsets, or moments of rage. Full blown, life sucks meltdowns. If you don’t carry an autism label and you don’t harm yourself or others while having them, they remain private moments of…
So my talk last week to the clinical psychology program went well–but I infuriated two people who used to be ABA therapists. They insisted that ABA was the most useful intervention for kids with autism, and that none of the bad stuff I was describing happened any more (they insisted that nobody nowadays attempts to “normalize” autistics, suppress stims, or use aversives–except for the Judge Rottenberg Center, which they agreed was a disgrace).
So here’s my question: does anyone out there have RECENT (last ten years) experience with ABA, either good or bad? Are you a teen or young adult who has had ABA therapy within the last ten years? Are you a parent, whose child has had ABA therapy recently? What were those experiences like? I would really appreciate anything you can tell me.
Timely post–be sure to read through to the end, though. Dont stop with the “triggery” part.
This may be a dark post. Therefore, I’m issuing a potential Trigger Alert for those with depression, those who have made attempts in the past, or may otherwise be at higher risk of an attempt currently or in the future. I don’t want this post to become the last straw or final motivation for anyone; in fact, that’s exactly what I’m trying to prevent.
World Suicide Prevention Day came and went. I only knew about it because 1) I was awake, and 2) I was on Twitter.
As usual, I’m late to the “party”, but on that day, my own thoughts came back to haunt me, even if their presence was a mere whisper. It wasn’t sitting on my shoulder, egging me to “do it”, but a few memories and their emotions made their presence known. And that day, I began to develop my thoughts on this subject from my…
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One very common misrepresentation of neurodiversity is that it advocates not doing anything to help your child learn useful skills that are harder for them to learn.This belief, I think, comes out of the tendency to equate teaching with therapy and therapy with “fighting the disability”. I’ve noticed that literally anything beneficial for a disabled…
via Teaching Your Autistic Child: The Neurodiversity Way — Abnormaldiversity
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