cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17147012
Respect
"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
I’ve seen this exact quote attributed to various anonymous people over the years, so I doubt it was written by a fifteen-year-old autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy. That said, ABA is trash.