And that’s the whole ideology of ABA, to get rid of certain behaviors as if the reason people were doing those behaviors was simply because they couldn’t understand that they shouldn’t do them. Stimming isn’t just pointless disruption, it’s an important tool for self-regulation. Limited speaking isn’t just a refusal to communicate, it’s an actual difficulty with the medium of spoken word. Beating these traits out of people, either figuratively or literally, doesn’t solve the underlying issues that affect their internal experience and their happiness.

Sorry for ranting at you, I just get so mad about this topic.

My mother was a special education teacher, and she saw my stimming and sensory issues and decreed them to be a problem because I’d never be “normal” (and I use the term loosely). “You’re so smart! You can’t have any issue with anxiety! Lights are that bright for everyone, and no one else complains! Figure it out!”

I was in special ed and the teachers were like that there too. It’s so frustrating how the people with the most power over autistic people’s lives are so often the people who understand us the least.

One downside of a formal diagnosis is that it might make it harder to move to some countries. But if you’re already in Canada then that shouldn’t be too much of a concern.

I mean, I wouldn’t want to eat inorganic food. What would that even be, pure salt?

I learned in SQL class that you never ever hard delete data when there is any alternative. On Facebook and Twitter you get a whole month to change your mind before your account can’t be recovered.

This was actually a major confounding factor in the original marshmallow experiment. They never thought that kids wouldn’t trust the promise of additional marshmallow later.

One thing that would have helped me pretty often as a kid would be the chance to physically distance from the conflict, calm down on my own over time, and get my thoughts in order (maybe by writing or typing them out) before re-addressing the conflict.

Creating a local account shows it, thanks! I’m not super used to how the fediverse works yet.

Where on that instance is the porn? All I’m seeing on the front page is SFW pics of celebrities in their respectively named sublemmies.

Oh god the heat. It’s hit 100 F most days of the last week here (Texas). I try not to go outside in direct sunlight at all, and not in the shade for longer than 5 minutes.