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#BanABA

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josh susser

Talk about mixed feelings... It's great to see so many Europeans sign the petition to ban queer conversion therapy. But it's also heartbreaking that autism conversion therapy (ABA) is always omitted from efforts to ban conversion therapy. My own state of California banned queer conversion therapy, but nobody is even looking at banning ABA here. In fact, US federal law mandates that insurance companies cover it.

If you oppose conversion therapy, you should oppose ABA too, BECAUSE IT'S CONVERSION THERAPY TOO.

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josh susser

I called Adam Schiff's SF office today and had a nice chat with a staffer about banning ABA and fighting back against Kennedy's attacks on our community. The staffer said they'd been getting a ton of calls on the topic, tho I couldn't tell if that included banning ABA or just meant about Kennedy's BS. Anyway it seems there's a lot of folks speaking up for us, so it does seem like now could be a good time to push for some positive change instead of only trying to hold back the darkness.
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josh susser

OK, so this RFKjr attack on autistic people is terrible and demands a response. But the response can't be only to go on the defensive, because then all we can do is try to lose ground more slowly. We need to go on offense and fight for expansion of autistic rights and protections. This is the moment for it because people are paying attention, and we might be able to turn that into support for positive change. Look at all the support there is for trans rights and protections now, largely in response to government actions against trans folk. We could do that, too.

I can think of a thing or two to push for: 1) Ban ABA. 2) Ban electric shock torture at Judge Rotenberg Center.

What else would be a good goal to fight for to expand autistic rights and protections? What about expanding support for us, or having any support at all for autistic adults? What changes do we want in schools? What about having texting available as an alternative for all public phone-based systems? I don't know what makes sense, but I want to hear if you have an idea.

But banning ABA would be amazing and if we got nothing else out of this moment that would be enough for me. Who would be a good leader for this effort? Do we need an autistic celebrity spokesperson? And does anyone have a "talk to your electeds about banning ABA starter kit?"
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Russell McOrmond 🧠🌈♾

I'm regularly confused why anyone, especially parents of Autistic children, would think ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is a good thing.

Sure, it might make your child compliant at moments when you want to do show-and-tell with your "friends", but you will be generating lifelong trauma.

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Text from social media that says: Someone asked me what is “bad” about ABA today… and it’s hard to pick just one thing. However, today I said: ABA trains Autistic people to ignore our own needs in other to make others comfortable. This teaches us our needs and wants dont matter, making it harder to tell people “no” to things we’re uncomfortable with - which can leave us vulnerable to abuse (coercion, control, exploitation, and even sẽxuäl abuse) in adulthood. This is just one of MANY problems I have with ABA and similar conversion “therapy” methods (being used on any living creature).
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