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12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Introducing: The Loud ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm thinking of kids as well as adults and I have definitely seen it with kids, if you don't think that's true it's because your son or daughter has been lucky, not because it doesn't happen.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Introducing: The Loud ... · 2 replies · +1 points

People with severe disabilities are the people who are most likely to be abused for stimming so I think advocating for acceptance of stimming is more important for them than it is for anyone else.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Introducing: The Loud ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I know lots of people with severe disabilities and one of the reasons I asked is that some of the people I know have computers and music players and iPads and stuff--in fact, often people are encouraged to do this by parents and staff because it can be helpful. As you may know, a lot of people use iPads for communication and they can be helpful to people with disabilities for other reasons.

Alison Singer's daughter Jodie is a good example of a person with a more severe disability who benefits from using an iPad: http://uptownradio.org/?p=952

Carly Fleischmann communicates using a laptop: http://carlysvoice.com/

Kristina Chew has written about teaching her son Charlie Fisher to surf the Internet.

I am not sure you've spent a lot of time on TPGA because there've actually been a LOT of posts about how helpful iPads can be for kids with autism--including as an AAC device, which would generally not apply to people diagnosed with Asperger's.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Introducing: The Loud ... · 12 replies · +1 points

I don't know how much Julia's computer costs, but I do have to ask how the cost of someone's computer is related to the severity of their disability.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Introducing: The Loud ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I don't think anyone who took one minute to learn about Julia would say that.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Mother, Afraid of Cost... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think Stephanie probably would have killed her child even if she didn't think he had autism. Sometimes when people are ill our urges come before the reasons we give for them. But it's really important, and says a lot about our culture's treatment of autism, what she ended up believing was her reason for killing him.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Advocacy Begins With \... · 0 replies · +1 points

I get why you commented on the ABA thing, I'm just explaining why I didn't respond to that comment but only responded to your very short comments. I actually would have a lot to say about that subject if I got down to it.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Advocacy Begins With \... · 3 replies · +1 points

and I'm having trouble getting even this out but here's what I think:

as the comments on this post have been going on I have been having some thoughts, like
"how come I don't think it matters if someone makes ABA sound bad, even though I know some people who do ABA are good people and do good things?"
and "how come even though I don't think kids should be able to do whatever they want, I have no problem with Kassiane's attitude toward C? is it a different kind of no? is it because of C's particular disability experience? what is the rubric?"

but actually writing comments about those things would be pretty ambitious. On the other hand, it's easy to say how I feel about the Temple Grandin comment. I feel bad that this happens but I think it's the nature of the Internet and maybe conversation in general. It takes so much more commitment to respond to a long comment and really unpack an idea that is complicated, so of course people usually say small things about other small things.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Advocacy Begins With \... · 0 replies · +1 points

I can't understand why a disabled person would ever stay out of politics.

12 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Advocacy Begins With \... · 2 replies · +1 points

I'm not sure we're on the same page. I mean the stigma of being disabled affects how someone is treated. Regardless of ability level I don't think someone who didn't have a label like autism would be mistreated to quite that degree. Disability labels can provide an excuse for doing otherwise unimaginable things.

I guess what I mean is that in conversations about disability, to some extent it doesn't matter if someone could possibly have been labeled with a disability in an alternate life. They haven't been, and so they haven't had the experience of that stigma. Does that make sense?

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