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27/12/2025

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23/12/2025

Applied Behaviourial Analysis = Compliance Based Conversion.

An ABA child cannot show anger or discontent. They cannot show sorrow, this is seen as disobedience and non compliance.

An ABA child cannot move, bounce and spin to regulate, sit down and quiet hands....let the games begin!

An ABA child cannot look away, they must learn to mirror, pose and mimic everything the trainer says.

An ABA child cannot show independent thought, it would mess with the conversion and that's not how it's taught.

A successfully trained ABA child will allow an adult to touch, mould and move them. They've been trained to do so and won't see why they shouldn't.

So parents who use ABA, who pay for their child to be trained....don't ever say your doing it for them.

Your teaching non acceptance, rejection and compliance and remember this:

IT'S INGRAINED.

Here you will see no lee way is given for transition from one activity to another. No explanation is needed to explain why the child needs to stop their activity.

No respect is show for the childs opinion or consideration given as to what they child is thinking.....just do it.

https://www.iloveaba.com/2011/09/3-step-prompting.html?m=1

A different view:

https://autisticate.com/autism/applied-behavioural-analysis-first-hand-accounts/

Evidence of PTSD in adults exposed to ABA:

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016

https://abacontroversyautism.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/10-rhetorics-of-applied-behaviour-analysis-aba/

https://myautisticdance.blog/2018/03/30/the-hidden-cost-of-behaviourist-therapies/

22/12/2025

Our favourite Autistic Irish-based poet, photographer, writer, and committed autism advocate celebrates neurodivergency through his writings, responses, via visuals, and further artistries.

The Incommensurable Frank L. Ludwig

There you may partake of his personal portfolio of poems, plays, stories, essays, children’s works, photography, and autism appreciation writings, reflecting his creative output, life journey, and neurodivergent perspectives.

'A very good feeling for the rhythm and the rhyme'(Seamus Heaney). The complete works of the prize-winning poet and photographer: poems, plays, children's stories and much more..

22/12/2025

23 December 2025

We thankfully remember the many facets of the life of Steve Silberman who so helped to change the paradigm with autistics, setting a new high-water mark with 'NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity'.

Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/neurotribes-the-legacy-of-autism-and-the-future-of-neurodiversity-steve-silberman/29fa7f7942a2e266?ean=9780399185618

A brilliant diamond fire, thorough grace.

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20/12/2025

17/12/2025

We don't need you to be aware, we aren't cancer.

We need you to accept

Identity first language, I am autistic.
I do not have autism.
I had cancer.
I no longer do.
But I'm still autistic....
As autism isn't something you can get rid of or heal or recover from. It's s not an illness, or a disease or an injury

We didn't kick autism ass today.
We achieved while being autistic.

Does autism define me?
Yes.
As my brain is autistic and every thought and action is made by my 🧠.

We need acceptance.
Accomodations and inclusion.

No to the puzzle piece.

We aren't puzzles to be solved
Until all the pieces fit until a cure is found

Ugh, look up I AM Autism on YouTube

Non speaking not non verbal.

Non verbal means you have nothing to say
Non speaking means you have all the things to say but you use other means of communication.

Blue for autism representing is not correct, it was used for when people mistakenly thought there were more autistic boys than girls.

We aren't angels, some of us are perfectly capable of lies, abuse and breaking the law.

Don't pedestal us.

We are not here for your inspiration.

Special people are not given special children, if so, explain fillicide to me and why that occurred.

1 hour of accomodations per week in supermarkets and businesses is a huge fuc* you to us, we aren't worth more than an hour?

We aren't superheroes, I don't feel like a superhero when I'm laid up for 3 days with a sensory overload puking and unable to endure light, sound or touch.

Your child doesn't feel like a superhero when they are shutting down on the floor or having a meltdown.

Don't infantise us.

Donate to autistic led organisations and charities, look up Autistic Inclusive Meets.

ABA and PBS is abuse, look into ABA PTSD.

Read It's An Autism Thing. I'll Help You Understand It. By Emma Dalmayne

16/12/2025

Content Warning: N**i Aktion T4 Eugenical Extermination Program

Before the gas chambers had names, there was a program meant to erase lives quietly.

It was called T4.

A bureaucratic code name.
Clean. Clinical. Deceptively ordinary.

Behind it was one of the darkest crimes of the N**i regime.

Beginning in 1939, N**i doctors—men sworn to heal—were ordered to decide who was “worthy of life.” Their targets were not soldiers on a battlefield, but the most defenseless people in society:

• Children with disabilities
• Adults with mental illness
• People with physical impairments
• Disabled war veterans
• The chronically ill
• Children from so-called “mixed marriages”
• Anyone labeled a burden

They called it “euthanasia.”
In reality, it was murder.

At first, the killings were slow and quiet.
Patients were starved.
Given lethal injections.
Left to die in hospital wards while families were told comforting lies.

But the process wasn’t “efficient” enough.

So the doctors refined it.

They introduced poison gas.

Men, women, and children were taken to former hospitals and care homes—places they trusted. They were told they were going for treatment. Instead, they were sealed into rooms and suffocated.

Their deaths were recorded as pneumonia.
Heart failure.
Natural causes.

Between 1939 and 1945, an estimated 200,000 people were killed under the T4 program.

This was not a side crime.
It was a blueprint.

The gas chambers used in T4 became the model for later extermination camps. The doctors, administrators, and techniques were transferred east. What began with the disabled paved the way for genocide.

T4 exposed a terrifying truth:

When a state decides some lives are worth less than others,
there is no bottom.

The victims of T4 had no armies.
No resistance movements.
No way to flee.

Their crime was existing in bodies the regime deemed imperfect.

Today, memorials stand where hospitals once hid death behind paperwork. Names are still being recovered. Families still uncover truths that were buried under forged certificates and silence.

Remembering T4 is not only about the past.

It is a warning.

Whenever society talks about burdens, purity, or lives not worth living, history is listening.

And it remembers exactly where that road leads.

15/12/2025

"Neurospicy" is used to describe multiply neurodivergent people or groups. Neurospicy can be used to avoid disclosure of diagnosis and as a way to resist medical functioning labels. However, neurospicy dismisses the disabled experiences of many neurodivergent people. The term also objectifies global majority women due to racial-sexist undertones...



https://autisticltd.co.uk/2025/01/06/the-impact-of-neurospicy-on-neurodivergent-communities/

15/12/2025

When Donaeo comes to your organisation to film for his new series 'Audinary', and takes home two of your books! Thank you Donaeo, a pleasure to meet you AND be interviewed by you!

You can buy both books on the following links:

https://amzn.eu/d/3LhvuGH

https://www.elklan.co.uk/Shop/Its_An_Autism_Thing?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOsAWNjbGNrA6wBR2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHr3OT1KQ23T5_Asj6Cbd9ix0K19kr50007E-uPpbnT4Uy5osg70j0bWmDYTM_aem_fh12X24TIWnn64V6IfcnIg

Theres a link for the crowdfunder for Audinary here:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/out-of-the-audinary-tv-series?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcAOsyYNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAac6mqekHkbBj15fFuF6tVA2aurLpT74Ep9kMSOMO9V0NJMdNIf035h1oyF6Uw_aem_ObylGvm0gGK_oYYEH_KOPQ

15/12/2025

You can buy your copy here: https://amzn.eu/d/3LhvuGH