“These people are so used to pain that they can adapt to almost any kind of aversive you give them.”
When I was a kid, my dad put me on a nail bitterant because I was a rampant nail biter. It worked... for a few days. Then the taste of the bitterant became more tolerable than the sensory issues of long nails and I was right back where I started
For anyone not in the know — ABA was the precursor to conversion therapy, of fucking course it doesn't work
I'm sorry... Conversion therapy, like the shit they do to force people to not be gay?
I've noticed pretty much every position using ABA especially clinical psychs pays a fuckton in rural areas vs other therapies' clinics, to add to the sketch. The local clinic is so sketch they kicked out a psych friend of family because her child was trans, and forced staff to attend church and church retreats under the guise of something else. Now knowing this origin, everything clicks into place.
I will never listen to anybody who shills for aba. Maybe if someone autistic who underwent it themselves did I'd listen, but even then I'd be highly suspicious.
I was always suspicious of it, never had a conversation with anyone who provided the therapy that could tell me what it was or any theory of the practice. And the places that provide it always look like some startup venture around here. Come to find out, there's like no regulation on credentialing providers - they'll hire high school grads and pay them for shit... Death to America.
