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ABA, PBS, conversion therapy
I wrote for @BylinesScotland about why the @ScottishGreens have voted for a policy of banning behaviour modification practices like ABA and PBS - 'Positive Behaviour Support', usually a repackaging of ABA.
Applied Behaviour Analysis is sometimes described as 'conversion therapy for autistic people'. It shares its philosophy, much of its history and many practices in common with conversion therapy for gay and gender nonconforming people.
#aba #pbs #autism #humanRights #disability #ActuallyAutistic #conversionTherapy #ScotPol #Greens
https://bylines.scot/rights-and-freedoms/scottish-greens-vote-to-ban-behaviour-modification-practices-for-disabled-people/
ABA, PBS, conversion therapy
@BylinesScotland @ScottishGreens
I also have a 'perspective' piece published in the first issue of the new Middletown Centre for Autism Research Journal, on autism and scientism.
So much of the reason why borderline-abusive practices like ABA have been allowed to proliferate is that policy-makers have prioritised anything claiming to be scientific over the constant objections of the people having these things done to them.
Science is an incredibly powerful tool, but that just makes bad science all the more dangerous. No court would dismiss someone's testimony of their own pain just because there are no peer-reviewed studies to show it's real - so why do politicians?
#science #epistemology #epistemicInjustice #autism #abuse #aba #yesAllABA #actuallyAutistic #philosophy
https://www.middletownautism.com/social-media/research-journal-12-2023
ABA, PBS, conversion therapy
@ferrous
It seems like such a basic fail too, nobody has died because of being autistic as far as I know. It's the prejudice that we know that cuts our lives short. It is not the responsibility of autistic people to act more neurotypical for the comfort of non-autistic people