As it stands today, I hold grave fears for the safety of JB's Autistic son. He is imprisoning the boy.
I saw on his Hating Autism blog that he opposes ABA, calling it "useless". He tries to qualify that by claiming that once the mercury that causes Autism (JB's words, not mine) is removed, the person's behavior snaps back to "normal" like being woken up from some drunken stupor.
I guess John is trying to say that ABA isn't a cure. Well it's not. That's true and it's not intended to be. ABA stands for Applied BEHAVIORAL Analysis. Capitals mine - BEHAVIORAL. It's a method designed to improve behavior in Autistics and only that. How could JB possibly call that "useless"?
Now I'm not naive enough to think that all ABA is okay. Phil Gluyas has done an excellent article showing that there is more than one version of the process. The aversive version is the one to avoid. The non aversive version is the process to use. Bad behaviors (and Autistics do have them) do need to be stopped. John, as far as I know, is doing nothing about that. He thinks that cure will do the complete job and he is wrong.
By taking that stand, he is condemning his own son to prison in effect. By trying to attack others on the subject he is doing his part to condemn others.
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