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true or false, everyone should be making their best effort 100% of the time, it’s lazy to do otherwise.
excellent! now true or false: leisure time is only valuable if you spend it productively. if you are not creating something or enriching yourself, you are just wasting time.
terrific work!
so logically, you can stop feeling guilty about “wasting” time on “useless” things, because it’s neither wasteful nor useless if you enjoy it.
glad ya’ll are enjoying this post
something about aba therapy that i feel is worth noting:
aba therapists are the only type of therapists in the united states that are not required to have a college degree in order to practice. the vast majority of aba therapists i've met don't have one.
then what are the requirements, you may ask?
be at least 18. have a high school diploma. complete a few hours of general training.
that's it.
they're also allowed to teach your child literally whatever they want. i saw a video of someone the other day who was put thru aba as a child. they were obsessed with the color blue, so what did the aba therapist do? gave every child in their class except them a blue piece of paper for weeks until they stopped crying about it. aka, until they were too numb to the emotional pain of being left out to react anymore.
i guess the end goal was to make them...not like...the color blue anymore? like, seriously. what was the point of that???
they teach children to smile on command even when they don't feel happy. they teach autistic children not to stim - something that has been proven not only beneficial but necessary for autistic people's wellbeing.
they can withhold water, food, or affection from your child until the child complies with whatever behavior they want them to complete. i wish i was joking.
this is literal child abuse.
the only therapy that does not require a degree to practice, abusive as hell, manipulative, they are literally allowed to teach your child whatever the hell they want...and yet it's also the only therapy for autistic children that is covered by most insurance companies.
make it make sense.
20-40 hours a week of aba is recommended for autistic children. they are essentially working part time to full time jobs.
over half of autistic people given aba therapy as children meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD as adults. this rate isn't even nearly as high in autistic adults not given aba as children.
aba was founded by the same man who created gay conversion therapy, and they are, in practice, essentially the same thing.
MAKE. IT. MAKE. SENSE.
ABA is evil
Hey, autistic person AND registered ABA therapist here, thanks for the non-sourced direct misinformation and fear mongering!
The requirements for being an ABA therapist are actually as follows:
-be 18
-have a high school diploma
-undergo 40-60 hours of trainings and exams including trainings on human rights and ethical treatment of clients
-pass an 80 question exam on ABA practice, child psychology, and the history of people with disabilities (ABA therapists don’t JUST work with people with autism.)
-acquire multiple certifications on ethical standards and mandated reporting of mistreatment
-have hours and hours of work shadowing under experienced therapists
All before you ever begin to interact with a client!
Yeah, there are obviously people who abuse their power and position to “help” in ways that are actually harmful. However, we receive multiple trainings on abuse of power and power dynamics and how to avoid accidentally harming the people we work with and how to spot it happening with coworkers. With every therapeutic and pharmaceutical profession, there is corruption and harm. That’s an issue that needs to be addressed without calling an entire practice abusive or immoral.
Also, sessions consist of anywhere from 30% to 100% NET or natural enviorment training, which is child led and literally consists of letting the child play or relax while trying to help reinforce them for good behaviors and find teaching opportunities in a natural environment with positive associations. It’s different depending on the child and their needs, but those who don’t respond well to routine or structure are accounted for and sometimes given literally 100% of the reigns for how the session goes. So that 20-40 hours a week? A lot of it is the child playing, with a therapist collecting data on behaviors and occasionally trying to guide the child or redirect problem behaviors.
We do NOT teach anyone not to stim. We try to prevent stims that are actively harmful to the client or those around them by reinforcing replacement behaviors. An example of this is providing a client with biting stim behaviors a chew necklace, or just helping them to figure out other distractions or coping mechanisms rather than biting if the stim is out of stress or other negative emotion. I’m literally autistic and have had to do this for myself, and learning how to regulate negative self-stimulatory behaviors was hard as fuck for me and I still struggle with it as an adult! It sucks! It negatively impacts my life! I wish I’d had some form of skills training before the negative stims were cemented into my brain as a coping mechanism! Things like hand flaps, squishing stim toys, finger tapping, ect. are not targeted behaviors for replacement!
ABA therapists CANNOT teach whatever they want, they CANNOT reinforce harmful tactics, they CANNOT withhold food or water from a client, and while there’s a place for critique of some institutions that practice ABA and even for ABA itself, these sort of claims don’t help improve the practice. They just scare people.
ANIMATED MOVIES TURNED/TURNING 20 YEARS IN 2020
The Tigger Movie (February 11th, 2000)
An Extremely Goofy Movie (February 29th, 2000)
The Road to El Dorado (March 31st, 2000)
Dinosaur (May 19th, 2000)
Titan A.E. (June 16th, 2000)
Chicken Run (June 21st, 2000)
Pokemon 3: The Movie (July 8th, 2000)
The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (September 19th, 2000)
Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders (October 3rd, 2000)
Help! I’m A Fish (October 6th, 2000)
Joseph: King of Dreams (November 7th, 2000)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (November 17th, 2000)
The Land Before Time 7: The Stone of Cold Fire (December 5th, 2000)
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (December 12th, 2000)
The Emperor’s New Groove (December 15th, 2000)
Pokemon: Mewtwo Returns (December 30th, 2000)
You telling me these all came out in the same year? We were fucking spoiled.
i feel like everyone’s forgotten some Covid basics so please let me remind you:
Your mask protects others more than it protects you
You can still spread covid even if you’re vaccinated or not showing any symptoms
The more this spreads around, the more mutated variants of the virus will appear and they WILL be stronger than the original
so like maybe stop being a little bitch and endangering others because you really, really needed to go out to dinner or get fucked up at a bar instead of in your home like a respectable person
I don’t have or want context for this
For the people asking: I know this looks edited but it really isn’t
Junji Ito // Hayao Miyazaki
The world if your favourite band is the Beatles:
The world if you fucking hate the Beatles:
Girls will be girls.
This radiates such chaotic energies.
This is Asobi Asobase. And this is literally the entire anime, just girls releasing chaotic energy and while sometimes showing off the best goddamn slap stick I’ve ever seen.
The 1KM line absolutely killed me
So my psychiatrist wanted me to take an IQ test and I wasn’t really sure why, the dude is pretty eccentric but I suppose it’s for demographic purposes and you’ll never fuckin guess what I got
OP don’t leave us in suspense
420
“jk it was 158″
I’m not sure if that tag is itself a joke or not but 158 it already an incredibly high iq. You better not be pulled our collective legs here.
No that was the score I got. I’ve taken IQ tests before in high school and was always around 140. It’s just logical intelligence, though. Not social, not artistic, not really even book smarts. It’s basically a score of how good you are at problem solving and isn’t really indicative of your overall intelligence. Honestly I consider myself in all other aspects to be of average intelligence. I have problems with social queues as well and problems retaining information.
also rmemeber the fact that op is a literal fucking astrophysicist. i fucking hope they have an iq like that.
That’s a good point lol I’m good at physics but like….. can’t work an oven and I’m not allowed to use weedwhackers
“Not allowed to use weedwhackers”…plz elaborate
They move fast and cut things including ankles and shins
So if corona virus hits here bad we can all stay home for a couple weeks?
Posted one year ago today
I will have what she is having
She enunicated this SO PERFECTLY and completely in a single tweet. A whole informed essay in a single tweet. Your fave could never!
Same problem we have with cops. Police are more likely to have certain characteristics and personality flaws not because becoming a cop makes you that way, although that may amplify the effects, but rather, men with these problems gravitate to the position. That’s why so many bullies end up becoming cops
You pointing out the cops means I need to point out; Female bullies tend to go into nursing! A position that puts them in power, and gives them control over people. If you knew a girl in highschool who was just an awful human being but thought she was great? Chances are she went into nursing.
It's not only threatening the profession, it's putting patients' lives at risk.
That addition to this post made me look up one of my worst bullies from school and GUESS WHAT
everyone forgot that mlk jr. said he hated white moderates
he said white moderates were a greater stumbling block to freedom than the kkk. mlk jr said that.
yo can someone please tell me if this is accurate? Because that’s fucked up
yes and he was right
read the thing for yourself https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf
Most relevant paragraph
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
He wasn’t wrong. It is, sadly, still true today.
“…who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.” We talk about this in seminary all the time: peace that is won by one side holding its foot on the other side’s throat is not peace. When we pray for peace, we must pray for peace with justice, never at the cost of justice, made by silencing the oppressed.
Fellow white people, don’t just reblog or share mlk jr.’s more palatable “hate cannot drive out hate” type quotes and ignore the fact that he also said challenging things like this. We must hold ourselves accountable. We must not be lukewarm. And there is never a “more convenient season” to act to secure rights for all people – the time is now.
He also had a speech to the APA that openly called out white people for caring more about “riots” and damaged property than the fact that Black people were suffering under institutional violence.
He called out white people regularly for their lack of empathy for Black lives and their continuance to spout respectability at Black people than hold the white policymakers accountable for their racism.
Boost tf outta this for MLK day.
We’re done talking about “ I Have a Dream”.
the way my jaw dropped at this bit
Toby: So I wrote a bunch of music for the computer to play. Its going to be epic since the computer can handle so many crazy parts. Orcistra: We’re going to play this. Toby: Ummm...
#MedicareForAll
We in the US haven’t used the “solution” for healthcare systems “invented” in other countries because the private insurance industry and the GOP have convinced Americans that our private insurance system is superior to universal healthcare systems. Yes, if you have a top of the line private insurance policy you will probably have superior coverage. But few people in the U.S. actually have a top of the line private insurance policy from their employers (assuming they are employed and get insurance from their employers at all). Even if they do, they usually have to pay a considerable share of the premiums and there are often co-pays.
For years the private insurance industry in the US has waged a disinformation campaign about universal healthcare like they have in Canada. Here’s one former Cigna executive’s confession about that:
