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an excerpt from the poem "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" by Frank Bidart.

— it's 2/2 again.

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Hey. Don’t cry. “I fell in love with a lovely kitten. That kitten was myself.” and “I am happy because everyone loves me.” by Louis Wain, okay?

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www.cutebotcalendar.com

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How do you do Persona Royal fandom

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whatever i literally dont care 😎 <- cares so much that it feels like my organs are tearing themselves apart in my chest

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that's it. that's twewy.

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week 1 and 2 of twewy

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fuck it we ball <- neither fucking nor balling

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Yes, my autism is a disability that causes my problems on a daily basis. Yes, I still see it as an important part of me and wouldn't want to get rid of it even if I could. These opinions can and do coexist

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Shit ABA therapists say

So much of this is appalling nonsense

“correct source of stimulus control” you mean he finally figured out what you wanted from him? Water, water park are completely accurate a plausible responses to that photo! How’s he supposed to know what you want? Has this child developed their knowledge about swimming pools through this? No, he clearly knows what one is and is able to talk about it (it’s wet, you go swimming in it, you need a bathing suit) he’s just finally figured out what you want. This is a WASTE OF TIME! 

challenging assumptions more like declaring random shit and claiming that anyone who disagrees is not using evidence

“core vocabulary” by the way, means words that aren’t nouns, basically. Words like stop and no, and, go/going, to, because, etc. This isn’t how the burden of evidence works! if you think autistic people develop language in a way that doesn’t involve core language, present your fucking evidence. Especially if you’re proposing teaching language (via AAC, ususally) by denying a child acess to key elements of language. What the fuck.

You shouldn’t need evidence that it “increases language exponentially” to realise that learning the most common words in the english language is important!

Not just arguing that trauma from ABA is rare, arguing that if it caused trauma, it wasn’t ABA, because it’s somehow impossible for ABA to cause trauma? This is patronising as shit, and please remember that there’s now a study showing that children exposed to ABA are traumatised by it.

“more importantly” it’s what parents want? No, the evidence base is much more important that what parents want. Not as important as considering the best interests of the child, but jesus

Kids learning things you’re not actually teaching them is not evidence ABA works

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Remember y'all, *magic* doesn't negate the existence of disabled people. Eugenics does that. And Lainoff's book, All for One, is incredible and worth a read. It's on my bookshelf!

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accidentally got addicted to drawing rise i think

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YOU CANNOT SELF-FLAGELLATE YOUR WAY INTO EXCELLENCE