Had this convo with an older coworker and he said it was common for parents that couldn’t handle their kids ( meaning they didn’t parent) to get a doc to medicate them. He had a friend who would be energetic and funny first 2 hours, then go to the nurse and become a zombie for the rest of the day.
My AUTISTIC MOM told me this. I understand what she means but like 😭
I was odd and a nerd ( geek, dork, spaz, weird, etc.) and a prime target for bullies. Gen-X
I was also gay when gay meant generically contemptable. As we were in grade school, few of us had figured out actual state of gayness.
You left out dweeb.
I forgot several of them. Yes. The etc. is doing some heavy lifting.
That’s how it is in ABA schools today, and the trauma from literally being abused is blamed on aUtIsM, and the abused kids are kept there because it’s supposed to “help” when it’s literally causing issues the kid never had before they were put in there. Then the kid ages out at 21 and moves into a group home connected to the same facility, instead of living an actual life. They could have had jobs, real friends, spouses, children, degrees, businesses, and lives, but now they wait to die in a cruel ‘Truman Show’ like reality where they’re gaslit into believing they’re living the best life possible. Yeah, a life where the best thing you’ve ever experienced, a once-in-a-lifetime dream come true, was eating a hot pocket.
Yeah I wonder why a seven year old who was shoved to the floor and sat on for looking at a clock was suicidal, must be the autism.
ABA schools are still a thing??
Most likely. I was in one from 2005 to 2015 and watched kids deteriorate into violent monsters and mindless zombies. I honestly wish I was just euthanized, that’s less fucked up.
I’m sorry you and others had/have to go through that. It’s infuriating that anyone would do that.
Not all ABA is bad. Some ABA centers work with kids and adults to help them build skills to get a job or study in school, instead of trying to remove “bad” behaviors.
But ABA schools are stupid and kids should be put in neurotypical classrooms as much as possible.
Pretty much the same energy when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that there were no homosexuals in Iran and was laughed at promptly after.
Unfortunately autistic kids still today, because knowing that autism exists and is much more common than previously realised hasn’t really stopped anyone, but rather just gives ableists more opportunities to express their ableism.
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I’m honestly not sure what the point of your story is, if anything, it was a surprisingly good result that the teacher was removed and the child wasn’t abused any further, and quite gross that the protest was against this happening. Sounds like you agree with the protestors and were not happy with that result and think the child should have been subjected to even more scrutiny? Which is an odd point to try and make around a group of autistic people talking about being abused by schools and other institutions.
Literally last month an autistic kid was arrested and suspended for a “bomb threat” AFTER all they found his bag was a stuffed toy.
Also
a otherly-able (I hope this is a okay descriptor)
No, it’s not ok. Disabled is the word you are looking for.
