@breadandcircuses Many autistic people have written about how ABA is essentially a conversion therapy. I have no experience of it personally, but it does appear designed to teach children to mask their behaviour, and there are many reports of people who have PTSD from it.
@JonathanBlackmore @breadandcircuses The book Neurotribes lays out the history of that so called autism “therapy” pretty comprehensively. The stuff Kanner put autistic kids through made Asperger (an actual Nazi) look like a moderate.