I’m thankful you posted this so I can block you and not have to interact with your nonsense. I wish all transphobes were this transparent.
What’s the original?
And mods!
There is no defense for ABA, period. ABA techniques were adapted for gay conversion therapy, which says a lot. ABA absolutely does not help anyone to learn important skills, but forces people to hide who they are to avoid shame and punishment. It’s abusive, causes trauma, and is not okay.
The use of “levels” is also profoundly problematic. Google it.
I understand what you’re looking for, but happily talking about ABA in an autism space is like asking LGBTQ folks about their positive experiences with gay conversion therapy. Others might feel differently, but some of us have been affected by our past experiences and don’t really care to be reminded of them.
If you mean the last one, then yes, it’s necessary for some breeds (schnauzers, for instance).
This isn’t new information — traumatologists have known this for a long, long time. Glad that info like this is making news in the NY Times, though!
I use it and pronounce it like “Mix”
Yeah, no, “mom and pop landlords” can cash in by selling their secondary properties and giving others a chance to build equity. It’s not fair to get someone else to pay your mortgage, whether or not it’s an older property, inheritance, etc. Housing should never be an investment.
I’m autistic, and so I come off pretty blunt sometimes. I am really passionate about disability justice, but blasting people just hardens their position and makes them unwilling to listen. I’m glad that you weren’t offended! :)
Being mindful about language also forces us to be more critical of what we’re saying. Using an insult or slur is easy. Needing to avoid it means that we need to use our minds to engage with why we don’t like something, and that can be legitimately enlightening.
With so many shortages, even adding two or three thousand new teachers into the system wouldn’t help — the entire system is burdened because there are so many shortages, and with more kids entering the system each year, the system will be chronically burdened unless something is done. “Something” being building new colleges specifically for teaching and churning out hundreds, if not thousands, of new teachers each year. The problem is nation-wide, not just in Quebec.
Given what happened in Rwanda 30 years ago, and given that we haven’t seen a repeat since then, I think Kagame is doing a good job. I’m not sure how I feel about him being in power for so long, but I also don’t think we’re in the best place to judge (the West) given how abysmally we failed Rwanda over the past 200 years.