Turtle Is A Verb

CN: suicide, ableism, ABA I should not live in a world where I have to worry that my students won't be alive every time I go to sch...

CN: abusive therapy When I was a child, my school discovered I didn't speak properly. My reading level was determined by how many erro...

People claim it's not that type of ABA, it's modern, it's kinder, and gentler, it's not abuse. They try to remove our words ...

Today I am silent. That is it's own form of communication. Choosing to not engage in the unspoken rituals expected of us. It's own...

It was first grade and they were determining what books we were able and allowed to read. We were sorted into levels, to make it easy for th...

So, Theory of Mind. This "how people think about others thinking" or whatever. It's claimed autistic people can't do that....

People talk about "Passing Privilege". Or there's "High Functioning" that is defined so frequently on how disabled ...

A decade ago I was good with words. Language was easy for me. Words were only infrequently lost, time was spent only on perfectionism, not o...

We talk about numbers. Statistics. Policies. And too often, these numbers get ignored, it being forgotten or ignored that these are people ...

The first thing they teach you is that everything is a behavior. The second thing is that if it's a behavior then autonomy is optional...