How to Advocate Against ABA Therapy Without Losing Your Mind
A video response to a young advocate’s email.
Jan 6, 2025
Hello! I received a lovely email this morning from a young Autistic self-advocate who wanted to know how they could use their own life story to shed light on the abuses of Applied Behavioral Analysis to the public, without incurring additional psychological trauma. I was moved by the question, which echoes so many of the messages that I get from young Autistic people who are looking to make a political impact, and it really touches on tensions that I live out every day in my own work. So I decided to record a video response:
Here are the questions that I explore in this video:
