History of Autism | The Importance of Self-Advocacy & Community
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- In this episode of Unpacking Neurodiversity, we will go over the history of autism over the 20th and 21st centuries when the term first emerged. This will include an overview of the people of the Western world and Western psychology who contributed to the recognition of autism, their research, and historical events that have impacted our current understanding of autism. I want to investigate the roots of the autism diagnosis and how it has evolved. I will also dissect, to some extent, the social climate surrounding autism throughout the years, acknowledging these as the foreground of our current views of autism.
What did you learn? Any thoughts? Leave them in the comments!
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0:00 exposition
2:15 introduction & early history
4:10 midcentury & wartime views of autism
7:23 post-war developments
17:48 postmodern social shift
26:05 modern autistic self-advocacy
The info: amazing to hear
Presentation: 5 star
The color coordination of the bookshelf behind you: priceless joy
Thank you for the feedback!
Wow, the history is significantly darker than I'd realized. My queer, Jewish, neurodivergent brain is spinning! Thank you for all the homework you had to do for this. It is very much appreciated!
This shines a new light on my job search, as I'm looking mostly at home health positions, and "ABA/Behavior Therapist" comes up frequently. I wasn't sure if it was more of a helping-families-communicate-more-effectively thing, or a train-this-kid-to-comply thing. I clearly have more homework to do now.
Blessings to you and yours!
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Thank you for the feedback! I hope your job search goes well (though I wouldn’t suggest ABA, haha). 🌈😊
I find it so upsetting that Behaviorism gets taught in the history of psychology but people who don't no shit about autism kinda fail to realise that Behaviorism is absolutely nuts and also really dangerous.
And even tho many people who have never studied psychology have no broader knowledge of Behaviorism, the general ideas and practices are persistent in schools, parenting etc. Kids often are perceived as not having (or having limited) cognitive processes and so people resort to the "simpler" option i.e. punishment. And as a result we have traumatised and mentally ill kids, teens and adult. Especially autistic people, but not only.
For example in the USA there was this "trend" of raising kids basically as if they were animals. And you wanted to abuse animals. And that involved extreme beatings for small "offenses" and creating situations where the kids would do something wrong and then beating them. And all that in the name of being a loving parent and raising your kids right. (It was mainly Christians who did that btw.)
So yeah, Behaviorism sucks.
Also, you mentioned how high masking autistic people would often be diagnosed with a cluster B personality disorder. I was once "diagnosed" by my GP with BPD with no proper assessment or reasoning. And yeah, I may exhibit some of the symptoms, but guess what, it was the autism all along.
Yeah, I totally agree. Behavioursm seems to somehow escape the scrutiny it needs, because it is -- in my opinion -- creepy and feels very wrong. People in real life like to tell me I "can't judge" therapies like CBT, but I just don't agree with the philosophy behind it, and I think it's unfortunate that it is such a popular stream of therapeutic thought and practice because, from the info I have, autistic people and others with long-term/ permanent disabilities often don't seem to benefit from being told that if they shift their thoughts, it'll CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOUR, and then their life will improve, as if autistic behaviours themselves are the problem. Sure, it might be "effective," but that doesn't mean it is also often invalidating and overlooking external factors (trauma, situational life stuff, socioeconomic status, ableism/ sanism) that contribute to the "problems" we have.
I guess I have very little patience with it because I had to fight for so long telling people that "no, it's not just anxiety, it is innate to who I am" and "no, it wasn't a panic attack, it was a meltdown," and "no, my feelings aren't irrational or mysterious, I just fundamentally struggle with identifying them and expressing them," only to be told I was struggling because of the "bad habits" I had fallen into, and that I should keep "pushing through" because anxieties are irrational and disperse once you face them. I can assure you my autism did not just disappear when I exposed myself to more sensory stimuli and social situations. And behavioural approaches seemed very intent on just eliminating the feelings that caused the behaviours, as if my brain could just do that.
Of course, that's my experience. Everyone's is different, and I won't say that behavioursm is only and exclusively bad, but I do fundamentally disagee with it and think others should take a moment to think about it.
Anyways, sorry for the rant; apparently I have a lot of thoughts about behaviourism. Thank you for the comment (and for all the comments you leave)!
Thank you so much for this research. I am autistic, I was diagnosed relatively early, and yet nobody but other autistics ever taught me about our history. This was very painful to watch, but this is our history, we need to know this.
I liked your presentation., and on a side note I like your bookcase
Thank you very much!! I'm loving the positive feedback about the bookcase, haha.
Thank you this was informative and cathartic. Well spoken and passionate while remaining factual. I did not know about Singer or autosms bases in postmodernism before If you are looking for disabled representation from diverse first hand accounts I recommend Disability visibility by Alice Wong
Love your channel. I hope we get a better future.
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Informative and easy to follow... though what these people have thought/said is gross
I’m glad! And yes, absolutely, gross. Thanks for your input! ❤️
Great video! Subbed!
Thank you so much! ❤️
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History scope did told it better and you didn't.