Just finished watching another Philosophy Tube video, a longer one about the [lack of] medical healthcare for trans people in England.

🔗 https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8

But what calls my attention to all of this - and to my previous toots about #transphobia is how closely related the history of #Autism is to all of this. All the bigotry, the violence, the medical treatment and exclusion, the diagnosis. I wish I had the time to collect and build all the resources there are about this they way they all have done.

But to start, I want to lead with a paper about the Queer History of Autism, that shows how #ABA treatment for autism was first made as queer #ConversionTherapy. Their main proponent, Autism Speaks, poses as allies but are actually a hate group. A lot of what #ActuallyAutistic people go through daily is very similar to what queer and trans folk go through as well. And Abigail Thorne, from Philosophy Tube, also ends her reflection on this process talking about disability, the medical and social models and how a lot of ot comes down to #SocialExclusion.

🔗 https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29579

Not considering, as well, how much of our communities - #AutismCommunity and #QueerCommunity - overlaps:
"Autistic people are more likely than neurotypical people to be gender diverse, several studies show, and gender-diverse people are more likely to have autism than are cisgender people" (🔗 https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-overlap-between-autism-and-gender-diversity/ ).

My point is that we should all work together and learn from one another.

#ABAisAbuse #BanABA #BoycottAutismSpeaks