🏳️‍🌈 Dion 🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏿Mar 24, 2024

"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."

-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy

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@DionRa yeah the person with those expectations is using bait-and-switch logic, playing a shell game with standards.

authority is fundamentally about different sets of standards for different people, they really dont even have to say it. but that wont stop them from pretending it makes sense.

and it always comes back to "it makes sense because i said so, which im backing up with some sort of abuse of power." then the abuse is justified by the same argument- almost like... a circle.

Mar 24, 2024 at 5:48pmWeb