Jimjongjung

Why did it take so many years for "professionals" to realize we in fact have emotion often moreso than most people? Did no one think to actually ask autistic people.

Are you serious? Like you can't actually be serious? There's no way you can be serious.

But if you are I would then ask why ABA and stim supression are and were so prominent when the stimming is showing no clear detriment to the individual and if you dig into it a little bit (by asking autistic people) you'll very quickly see that its necessary as it helps us manage stress and express positive emotion.

Or are you going to claim you had no idea that ABA the most prominent "treatment" for autism is a thing.

Also there are plenty of autistic people that can report on thier mental state so they could have been asked.

Actually sorry its not the perfect answer because why can't we just stim? It has literally no detriment to the individual other than people will think they are weird. But guess what we are weird and not stimming doesn't change that. It is always found out one way or the other Immense amounts of resources that could be better spent in a million ways would be put towards it and at the end of the day you would still be telling the child their natural response to the situation is wrong and you would still be running into all the shame issues that come along with ABA.

That is the perfect answer. My question was why it took us sixty years to get there.