Mutual Aid request 🥺
My trans roommates and I need to repair our AC and the damage is extensive. We can't afford a new system but we can try a few repairs.
We need $500 to recharge the refrigerant 💰❤️🩹🥺
Please help 🥹
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mike is smiling with a photo filter applied that puts pink flowers on their cheeks. They have a white flower tucked behind their ear, and are wearing a dangling “T-H-E-Y” earring in trans colors.
Feeling pretty tonight
Roots of ABA: “You have to build the person” The “founding father” of ABA is generally considered to be Ivar Lovaas, a Norwegian-American psychologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He believed that autistic children were not even people. As Lovaas once said, “You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense – they have hair, a nose and a mouth – but they are not people in the psychological sense. One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person.”
Lovaas developed what he believed to be a comprehensive way to “build the person” and called it Applied Behavioral Analysis. His recommendation was that autistic children receive 40 hours of ABA therapy a week. One of his most important goals was to shape and mold their behaviors so they would appear more like “typically-developing” children. Lovaas felt this was the only way autistic children would ever be able to learn anything, and he would often employ harsh aversive techniques such as withholding affection, withholding food, physical punishments, and even electric shocks.
The strong and punitive aversives Lovaas suggested may not be as widely used today, but the reliance on rewards and punishment continues in other “therapies” and “interventions” that use the principles of ABA, which I’ll discuss in a future article. Some therapists argue that the more “modern” forms of ABA are more humane approaches, but they are nonetheless still based in the idea that autistic ways of being in the world are unacceptable and must be eradicated.
So what’s the connection to gay conversion therapy? Well, Lovaas was also substantially involved in the Feminine Boy Project, which has strong connections to what is today known as gay conversion therapy. Psychologist George Rekers, a key figure in the world of conversion therapy (and co-founder of the notoriously anti-gay Family Research Council), used Lovaas’s techniques to treat so-called “deviant sex-role behaviors” in male children. And when you think about it, even if Lovaas had no connections at all to gay conversion therapy, ABA has enough similarities to gay conversion therapy that many autistics refer to it as “autistic conversion therapy”.
#ActuallyAutistic
the creator of ABA (RDI, FloorTime, and any other “interventions/therapies” for “autism” are literally ABA by another name) also created gay conversion therapy
so, if you’re pro-ABA you’re pro-conversion therapy
https://t.co/1ULhlApMRC
Freaked out, fluttering hummingbird moth perched on my wall
This humongous boy followed us into our apartment at 2am. A white-lined sphinx aka the hummingbird moth. Wish I had held him but he was so scared I just had to help him find the door 🫡
good morning to the gender outlaws
Not fun for everyone? Please let's be direct here.
HT created an anti-black environment that became unsafe and exclusionary to our BIPOC siblings. Rather than responding with empathy and an eagerness to fix we (white people) decided to be fragile and ignore the real problem of racism.
Tiny, yellow striped wasp dead on its back, with all legs pulled inwards. Laying next to some succulent leaves
Tiny, yellow striped wasp dead on its back, next to some succulents
Tiny, yellow striped wasp dead on its back, next to some succulents
Found this itty bitty dead wasp in one of my propagation tubs outside. Very dramatic pose, I wonder what got him 🧐
happy pride this is the future queers want
Their bodies look similar but stink bugs don’t have back legs/feet this extravagant 😆
Florida leaf-footed bug 💅
Did someone say tummy tuesday?
There’s a difference between being a mindless soldier and a person who won’t stand for racism/ablism/cisheterosexism/insert other ism. Some people are just aggressive for no reason but others are fighting for their right to exist and be respected. I’m so tired of the racism in trans/queer circles
Saul (a golden retriever) and Pepper (a black and brown lab) lay down next to each other smiling
Saul (a golden retriever) and Pepper (a black and brown lab) lay down next to each other smiling
Yesterday @banklesschick.bsky.social, @buggy.bsky.social and I took our dogs on a picnic, look at these very good boys 🥺🥺
It was really not hard at all to boycott this site for one day to show that I am vehemently against any anti-blackness on this app and I wish more of y’all had joined me. Why the hell are we carrying over letting people get away with being racist over from Twitter. Let’s use this platform better.
“I don’t think that I’ve ever met a racist that wasn’t also…”
Pointing this out because it’s a major issue with challenging the systems, institutions, and policies of white supremacy and anti-Black…if you’re “white”, you’re racist and nothing changes until
I won’t be signing onto this site at all tomorrow, Sunday May 28. If y’all wanna show you won’t stand for this weak ass leadership, boycott with me.
Not enough communists on here yet.
He looks like a bug eater 😂
Cat?
Today @buggy.bsky.social and I repotted our basket plant (callisia fragrans). Native to Central America and the Caribbean, this medicinal plant produces beautiful, basket-looking white flowers (although ours unfortunately has never flowered yet 😔).
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It feels like a leg day
jules wears jean short shorts, an orange, black, and white striped cropped tank top, and a denim open sleeveless over shirt. Their tummy sticks out over the shorts and purple plaid boxers poke out
I know it’s not Tuesday but my tummy’s being real cute today