Your child's repetitive language isn't wrong. It's part of their unique journey to self-generated speech. The Natural Language Acquisition protocol shows us that with patience and support, they develop complete grammar systems… just through a different path.
Trust the process. Honor their language.
Autistic SLPs who are gestalt processors themselves say they can intuitively understand the emotional connections behind their clients' scripts 💬
The Natural Language Acquisition protocol centers trust, connection, and honoring ALL communication—including echolalia.
Lived experience matters ✨
As an autistic person, I feel this is the root of ever major issue that I have experienced in my life.
For the past century, American culture has been seeped in the ideals of behaviorism, which denies the existence of an inner reality. In other words, whatever is going on mentally with a person can be understood directly through their behavior...
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life is a costume party and I was showing with my real face”
- Franz Kafka
Autistic people may be a minority, but I see them as the canary in the coal mine. Their struggles stem from an inability to cope with a false role in a false life within a false society. They are sensitive to behaviorist policies and environmental toxins, which are ever increasing in our world.
I’m blown away by the Intense World Theory of autism. It explains so much, and I feel that it offers a positive perspective from which to view my struggles.
Every accusation is a confession.
Don't take it personally.
Ever wondered why autism can be described in seemingly contradictory ways? The understanding and meaning of the condition completely flipped in the mid-20th century. It was easier to deny the existence of an inner life than to include subjective criteria in large-scale studies.
Autistic people who have taken part in ABA are 86% more likely to experience PTSD than those who have not. It's child abuse.
Its true that sometimes they may jump to conclusions (just like anyone else does frm time to time), but for the most part the idea of RSD only serves to gaslight people and their very real experiences.
Rejection sensitivity is said to be an erroneous assumption that rejection has occurred. But the reality is that people with these conditions ARE rejected quite often, even by family. Then they are told that the rejection they experienced isn't real but all in their head…
My mom was a school counselor! She knew enough to do a kind of personal ABA with me, which I hated and has a big impact on why I don't want to be involved with any sort of therapy or have any evaluations. I know myself well enough to know that I don't fit in any pre-determined box.
So I can't be #autistic because I can make eye contact. Ok, but what if my version of eye contact shakes people to the very core of their soul?
#ActuallyAutistic
#autism
#MentalHealthAwareness
#MentalHealthMatters
Autism wasn't widely known when I was growing up, and my symptoms appeared mild to others. However, I’m happy to have avoided behavioral therapy and any involvement in the mental health industry. I certainly won't willingly put myself into the hands of that industry at this point in my life.
I know the feeling. Mine has been on silent for about 10 years now. The alerts make my heart jump even when I'm not busy.
"Providing a treatment that causes pain in exchange for no benefit, even if unknowingly, is tantamount to torture and violates the most basic requirement of any therapy, to do no harm."
The reactions I get to telling the truth are wild. I've started to try and see the comedy in it...otherwise it's just too depressing.
I know I said I would do that thing…
But then a loud noise happened.
And now I need to rest.
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#Neurodiversity
Telling victims of trauma and abuse that they are mentally ill takes the blame from the rightful party and places it squarely on the shoulders of the victim.
We have to do better.
Autistic people are to industrialization what the canary is to the coal mine.
#autism
#actuallyautistic
#neurodiversity
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Same with me. I have a hyperlexic and numernumeric son as well. Such children can certainly be harmed if the parents don't understand what's going on.
I'm so thankful to be old enough to have avoided autism therapy as a child. Not sure if I would have made it to adulthood as myself otherwise.
In the past it was observed that children with regressive autism would typically overcome their struggles while those with infantile autism would not. We are dealing with multiple neurotypes within what we now call autism. So confusion reigns and research is increasingly difficult to decipher.
For sure. It's like they created problems with the solution.
Clinical forms with boxes to check and numerical scales. That’s how autistic people are understood through research. Is it any wonder that misperceptions regarding a lack of empathy and theory of mind persist?
#autism
#neurodiversity
#mentalhealtmatters
#actuallyautistic
The originator of behaviorism used his ideas in raising his four children. All had physical and mental ailments, three attempted suicide, one was successful. Why are these principles so prevalent in schools and the mental health industry?
#Autism
#MentalHealthAwareness
#neurodiversity
Not all #autistic traits are caused by differences in the brain. #ABA and related therapy use operant conditioning. This can cause prompt-dependency, an inability to decipher social cues, and communicative oddities--all currently attributed to #autism.
