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Signal boost!The Judge Rotenburg Center is a school in Massachusetts for children with disabilities, including autism, and it is notable for administering electric shocks on students for even minor infractions of rules. Please sign this petition. I worry so much about the kids I left behind in MA who might get placed here. Regardless of where you are located, you can tell MA legislators to shut it down! Oh yeah, and tell everyone else.
Reblogging — sign if you haven’t already.
Signed a while ago
I was talking to a girl who was cosplaying BBC Sherlock. I told her that I had started watching the show, but had turned it off because watching Sherlock interact with others reminded me so much of myself that it made me kind of uncomfortable. It turns out that she also has Asperger’s and likes it because he’s so relatable. I think I’m going to give it a second chance.
“To the director and staff of the Judge Rotenberg Center, we are Anonymous.
Your mistreatment of disabled children and young adults has been brought to our attention. Your extensive use of aversive methods, including electric shock and withholding of food as a form of behavioral modification is nothing less than torture. We are aware that your so called treatments include attaching electrodes to students and administering a shock that is up to 20 times more powerful than that delivered by a police taser. We have seen the effects of it in mainstream media broadcasts, and heard the statements of opposition by family and friends.
The founder, Doctor Matthew Israel was indicted on counts of obstructing justice by ordering the destruction of video evidence that detailed an event involving a student being shocked over 100 times. This is not the first action taken against the center for abuses. However, electric shock is still used as a part of the centers aversive program.
In response to your torture of these individuals, we have initiated an operation against your center. We are calling upon all concerned citizens to spread the message of opposition through social networks, emails, and phone communications. Contact your local representatives and the Judge Rotenberg Center directly and voice your concern. We will no longer tolerate the abuse of the innocent.
We are demanding the immediate discontinue of all harsh aversive methods. This is a warning that you should not take lightly.
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Judge Rotenberg Center, you should expect us.”
If you are considering using functioning arguments to silence autistic people, reread this until the urge passes.
Not zir parents. Not zir sibling.
An autistic person.
For some reason, relatives of autistic people disproportionately see themselves as knowing better what their relative needs and desires than ze does zirself.
And, hell, this happens other ways too. “I know an African American person, so I know better what African Americans need than they do themselves.”
Fucking humans.
Instead of trying to cure use you could try to oh, I don’t know make our lives actually better.
Try to make ignorant fucks stop believing that autism is a disease or any such nonsense.
Raise awareness that autism isn’t caused by vaccines.
Help prevent bullying that plagues us.
Try to do some good to lower the rate of suicide for autistics.
Or you could continue to be apart of that problem, whatever.
Lemme emphasize the suicide line. Bolding mine.
Get rid of the sentiment that stimming is bad.
End job discrimination against autistics.
Advocate for better accommodations in school and work (for all disabled people)
One more: Reform autism “treatments” to focus on managing actual problems in our lives.
Stop privileging the voices of parents over autistic people.
- Assume that your autistic friend is telling you the truth when it comes to his emotional state, capacity to cope, and personal experiences. Example: If he tells you he cannot talk to you today because he’s overwhelmed, believe him—don’t try to parse out his “real” meaning,…
that’s enough for tonight
I used to do that when I was little. I looked like I was conducting an invisible orchestra.
Ladyhawke - “Black White & Blue”
- For allistics to shut the fuck up and not try and speak for us.
- To keep your ableism out of our god damned tags.
- For our own voices to finally be heard instead of parents/cousins/sibling/friends.
