#medium supports needs

[postmanic]

people talk about "well some people NEED ABA to learn to mask or decrease supports needs" but never talk about how a) being higher supports not a bad thing b) ABA itself actually increases supports needs for a lot of people who get traumatized from it. ABA doesnt always produce successfully high-masking low-supports "high-functioning" autistics & acting like thats true buys into the idea that ABA actually works and is a reasonable approach to autism

i went into ABA a MSN autistic and came out of ABA a severely traumatized MSN autistic with long-term physical damage and emotional trauma. until emdr therapy i had nightmares flashbacks panic attacks etc every day. a lot of day to day things were triggers and still to this day i struggle and dont think ill ever really be fully healed from what happened to me in ABA. ABA was actively disabling for me, not making my disability "better"

[disabiliana]

a lot of people assume, that having a special interest means you know a lot about your special interest. i don't know a lot, because i have trouble learning new things. i think about my special interests all of the time and have trouble talking about other things or switching topics. i would like to know a lot more about my special interests. but my brain doesn't like to work that way. when i try to learn new things, i often forget or it doesnt make sense to me and it needs to be explained over and over. did you know that Cubone and Marowak are ground-type Pokemon? i didnt. my partner had to explain and to them it made a lot of sense, they said "well yeah, they use bones, which come from the ground". but even though Pokemon has been my special interest ever since i was really really little, i had no idea. i was really surprised.