NeuroDivergent Rebel's NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapy and ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) Master Post

Because some people might genuinely want to know my stance, I’m creating an “ABA/NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapy Master Post”. Please feel free to share this resource if you find it relevant.

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My stance on ABA is not hard to find.

Although I’ve extensively stated my stance on ABA and other NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapies (repeatedly) over the years, I still regularly get comments and messages asking me what my “stance on ABA” is.

Searching my website, Google, or Substack will turn up many posts I’ve done on the subject over the years. However, people still ask me, as if I’ve never shared my opinions on the subject over the years.

There are a lot of new people joining this space each and every day, so it is possible some who ask truly don’t know my stance on NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapy (yet).

Because some people might genuinely want to know my stance, I’m creating an “ABA/NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapy Master Post” - which I will be pointing people in the future (so as I’m not repeating myself, because talking about coercive control is very taxing on me, since I, myself, am a survivor of behaviorism and abuse in my personal relationships as a result).

Please feel free to share this resource if you find it relevant.

NOTE: for my safety (since many of the stories I share are personal) some of the posts linked here may have “locked parts” that are only accessible to my paid subscribers.

Why I call ABA NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapy

• You don't have to have been subjected to formal Autistic Conversion Therapy to have experienced behaviorism and its harms.

• NeuroQueer Timelines: Conversion Therapy, Queer History, and ABA - The Pains of Watching History Repeat Itself

• Objections to the Terms Autistic and NeuroDivergent "Conversion Therapy"

• Human Binaries: NeuroDivergent and Queer - Coloring Outside the Lines Will Be Punished

Identifying NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapies

Behaviorism 101: Identifying Autistic, NeuroDivergent, and Other forms of Conversion "Therapy"

ABA/Conversion Therapy & Grooming

What IS Grooming?

Animal Behaviorism is Kinder than Human Behaviorism

Animal Behaviorism is Kinder than Human Behaviorism

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Stigmatizing Symbolism - Puzzle Pieces are a symbol of ABA

The History of the Puzzle Piece (a Controversial Symbol for Autism and Autistic People), ABA, Conversion Therapy, & Autism Speaks

Alternatives to ABA

• My New Favorite Website: Instead of ABA

• Alternatives to ABA: If not ABA... then WHAT? - ABA for "Problem Behaviors"

• Alternatives to ABA: If not ABA... then WHAT? - Helping Autistic People With "Self-Care Skills"

• If Not ABA, then What? Autistic People, Social Skills, and "Appropriate Play"- We socialize and play Autistically!

• If Not ABA, then What? Increasing Communication, Language, and Academic Skills

Additional Resources

• My Anti-ABA Testimony: “Parents are desperate to receive ABA for their children because they've been told its the only thing that will help them.”

• Sounding the Alarm: Battling the ABA Epidemic: ABAers Target ADHD and Kids Who Started School Late During COVID

• My New Favorite Website: Instead of ABA

• Evidence of increased PTSD symptoms in autistics exposed to applied behavior analysis

• ABA is NOT Effective: So says Report from the Department of Defense

• I Abused Children for a Living

• I Abused Children for a Living and so Did YOU!

• 5 Important Reasons Even “New ABA” is Problematic

• Why the ‘treatment’ of autism is a form of conversion therapy

• Interview with Dr. Ole Ivar Lovaas about Autistic Children (1974)

• A Conversation with Asiatu Lawoyin

• ABA Archive on NeuroDivergentRebel.com.