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As Seen On Reddit | Thank you so, so much for your support! | #SupportAutisticPokemonTrainers
RE: Support your Fellow Trainers! Just wanted to post a quick update and thank you to the Road community for your incredible support and responses during our interactions with Niantic’s social team (details are in the link above for those who did not see my original post). Niantic Tweeted last night acknowledging the issue, and although…
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Person-first Language and Sarcastic Teachers and Behaviorists – Ryan Boren
I hear administrators, and behavioral professionals mandate person first language but freely mock students in front of peers and teachers. I am sick of it. Words matter. This is how a lot of teachers in both general education and special education classrooms “communicate” with their students. Snide remarks abound. Direct answers are not provided to…
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We are not OK | By Kieran Rose: The Autistic Advocate August 10, 2018
By Kieran Rose, The Autistic Advocate and Co-Founder of The Autistic Cooperative. August 10, 2018 [Trigger warning for suicide, self harm, suicidal idealisation, depression] Society beats into me how I should be raising my son, but I don’t think my way is wrong just because it’s different. Still that pressure to seem normal is overwhelming.…
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#ABAisAbuse hashtag on Twitter
Source: #ABAisAbuse hashtag on Twitter Luka Jesse Meindl @LJMeindl Sep 23 More Luka Jesse Meindl Retweeted Pacello And to be honest, I wouldn’t even train my dog like this #AbaIsAbuse #NoABA Luka Jesse Meindl added, Pacello @Trampeleinhorn ABA is nothing else than to train people as dogs. My parents explained me the world in every detail & the…
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How do Scientologists treat autistic children? – Operation Clambake Message Board
Source: How do Scientologists treat autistic children? – Operation Clambake Message Board Posts: 63 Joined: Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:16 am Location: Seattle, WA, United States How do Scientologists treat autistic children? Quote Post by rlsteve » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:22 am Everyone says that young Jett Travolta is autistic but that the Travoltas are in denial of it and not…
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Latest Headlines In Divergent News … (07.25.18)
Divergent News & Notes Disability Rights Groups Protest Provider Efforts to Continue the Exploitation and Isolation of People with Disabilities – ADAPT – Free Our People! #TakeTheMaskOff | Latest Headlines … (07.25.19) As Seen On Twitter | No really, if urine is not contained within the testicles then what are they for? #explainthat shared via @ryanhendry94 Heart of…
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When The Mask Was Donned #TakeTheMaskOff | Eve Reiland
(TW: Teen depression, death, rebellion, world annihilation and suicide ideation is a theme in my younger years writing.) The word Autism didn’t exist in my vocabulary when I was a teenager. Certainly, masking to blend wasn’t a concept in my mind – even as I was donning the mask. Survival depended on it. Yet, without…
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