About the ABA stuff, she wrote on her blog that ABA was ''awful'' and kids shouldn't get it. What the fuck? ABA is sometimes the only thing that allows severely Autistic children to be potty trained, learn to communicate with sign language or flash cards and to stop self injurious behavior. It's no miracle and it is overpriced, but it does help with essential skills for severely Autistic kids. She really didn't give a fuck about anyone.
well, no, technically she was not an advocate.... well she was not a legit credible advocate lets put it that way. but because she was seen as disabled, she gott o take the title and position as a disabled self and peer advocate, as a disabled person--- she had so many of us fooled all these years. but once all this stuff leaked, she lost all credibility, except for a small number of ''cult following'' she still had and still has !
i agree ABA for the most part is bullshit, there are components ABA that can be helpful.... and there is plenty of people it has done more harm then good in the long run... BUT i am all for other types of therapy, like occupational therapy where they learn functional skills, life skills, adaptive skills and speech language and adaptive learning therapy where they can learn to communicate with sign, adaptive devices, orally, cards, pictures, ect. but thats another topic, but amanda knocked down ALL AND ANY forms of therapy and wasall about just accept exactly as is.... NO, being disabled sucks, it does not do a person any favors in life, it is a deficit, that being said, for most things, there are accommodations, adaptions, and work arounds, and these should be strongly encouraged so people can have quality of life, make gains, reach goals, wants and needs.
i agree--- i am so sick of these so called self advocate self DX'd people claiming to be disabled, speaking for us, but mostly just doing it to justify their BS and refusing to better their lives in any way possible.
its along the same lines of those so called ''incontinent people'' but they have little or no medical issue they just use that as a guise to hide behind and justify the fetish behaviors ( gags)l !
oohh no, im not saying that amanda was / is the sole cause of the disabled peoples advocacy and voices not being took seriously,
but her and others like her play a pretty big role in making all that, that much harder and worse on actual bonified legit disabled people who are wanting and trying and working to better themselves.
ooohh yes, her public image she gave people of ''severe'' disability did not help anyones cause at all !
