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Physical punishment as conditioning.

Kayla55 said:
After leaving school of ABA training, you may need time to try get into touch with Austic self again, because of what you stated in this thread.
That is a con of being diagnosed too early, and having early intervention shoved in your face from day 1
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I'm 53 and still waiting to be diagnosed.
No early intervention for me.
 
Neia said:
Hi everyone.

One question I have is: Would being beaten and forced fed food, condition an autistic person to not refuse or dislike foods?

When I was a kid, 5 or thereabouts, I didn't want to eat some foods, but my mother would beat me up and force me to eat.
In time I started not refusing any food that was placed in front of me.

Today, the only things I have difficulty eating are meat (because I hate how meat tastes) and crispy things (because they make my teeth ticklish in a very unpleasant way).
I always like to leave cookie packs open for a while so they go soft 😅

There are other things that I used to do when I was a kid, that I think were beaten out of me.
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What a great idea. Use punishment and coercion to traumatize a person into normal behavior. Maybe we can call it something that sounds official and scientific, like how about ABA?
 
Shamar said:
What a great idea. Use punishment and coercion to traumatize a person into normal behavior. Maybe we can call it something that sounds official and scientific, like how about ABA?
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What is ABA? I assume nothing good?
 
Neia said:
Bullying in disguise.
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There was a big story in the news here about 6 months ago. A "specialist learning centre" in Melbourne was raided, children taken in to protective custody, people working there arrested on child abuse charges, and now the courts are working out just how much the church that owned and operated it is going to have to pay victims in compensation.
 
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