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In reply to the discussion: To the handful of DUers who haven't figured this out yet: [View all]NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Ole Ivar Lovaas created & popularized both in a short span of time during a boom of therapies based on Blank Slate Theory.
It was a few decades before neurology had the tools to prove that neither was actually a collection of learned behaviors to be unlearned, but by then entire industries had spawned.
Please listen to people who are autistic &/or LGBTQ and have been subjected to them.
https://nsadvocate.org/2018/07/11/treating-autism-as-a-problem-the-connection-between-gay-conversion-therapy-and-aba/
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/03/man-behind-ex-gay-conversion-therapy-started-trying-make-autistic-children-normal/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328400705_Disturbing_Behaviours_Ole_Ivar_Lovaas_and_the_Queer_History_of_Autism_Science