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For anyone unaware, ABA is the act of torturing autistic kids until they act “less autistic”. Forcing a child to become desperately hungry or thirsty so they’ll comply with demands is abuse. It’s doesn’t stop being abuse because the kid is disabled. https://twitter.com/annmemmott/status/1310846741110022144
Withholding food and drink to a child is going to cause anxiety, lead to eating disorders, and can have so many other negative impacts. Doing so because an autistic child isn’t communicating the way you want them to is very harmful.
One of the MANY reasons most autistic people don’t support Autism Speaks is their support for ABA as a practice https://www.autismspeaks.org/applied-behavior-analysis-aba-0
Parent of an autistic child she put through ABA explains why she did it, why she now regrets it, and the issues with it conceptually. https://twitter.com/shannonrosa/status/1320398441852268545?s=21 https://twitter.com/shannonrosa/status/1320398441852268545
ABA was created by the same person who created electrocution based gay conversion therapy, and while autistic kids are no longer getting electrocuted, the aim is still at its core to make the autistic person miserable until they hide the outward signs of who they are.
