The Standard Review

Abuse is the Standard Treatment, and Objections are Punished

What the young woman in the following video is reporting is typical and reflects the common standard. What is highly unusual as well as admirable is that this woman's personal standards are such that she sees the victim's welfare as top priority, and she's willing to act based on principal.

The school is acting on behalf of their reputation and willing to sacrifice anyone's welfare in order to preserve the system. This is how it got so bad in the first place. Until the entire system is seen as promoting an environment where abuse is inevitable and their deceit is questioned by more people who will face the consequences of reporting it, this will continue.

 

Abuse of Children With Autism in School

 

 

 

 

Accurate Speech versus Effective Communication

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The ways similar subjects relate to one another can be difficult to understand due to how morality and ethics, separate from other subjects, are typically decided individually based more on emotion than practicality. Collective mentality is how governments contradict the emotions and mental process of the individual and teach them to de-value themselves and their creative spirit. When people describe all things being relative without considering this, discussion becomes chaotic.

Despite the goal of creating appropriate and accurate standards of speech being impossible, people tend to argue as if one person's ability to meet the standards can be measured as greater than another. In the same way, that information is given a royal endorsement with only a few options being explored (and a few royals allowed to express different ideas) variations of verbal expression are used to determine people's ability and the value of their ideas. In the world of academics the silliness of this standard judgment seems less understood by those involved in the process.

The goal of scientific research is mainly to encourage the validity of science and protect what has been described as knowledge by a scientist. The definition given by Wikipedia for science is here.

We have no way of knowing who were the best thinkers in ancient Greece because the standard of measurement excluded most people from even being considered. The thoughts they described were within a narrow realm of the beliefs and ideas that questioned the superiority of the empire's methods were never considered valid. Long before eugenics was a word used for the elimination of invalids Aristotle and Plato published these views: (note this site is described as a Nazi fan site)

These so called superior thinkers showed contempt for independent decisions and variety of ideas. They wrote rule books for others that were considered the best humans to follow so that the State would always be honored and would make decisions about whose life was valuable and whose was not. This was, and still is, considered by the most valued members of society who mainly influence decisions about public policy, to be the best way to preserve what is considered civilization.

In several hundred years, the philosophy that protected this empire has changed very little because those who have had power have used it to eliminate diversity, promote slavery, and discourage all types of independence and democracy.

For example, the empirical ambitions of the United States are promoted in very similar ways to that of ancient Greece. Only a very few of the considered elite are even included as being valuable citizens who achieve a high school education.

It says here:

"This report finds that only about half of all students served by the main school systems in the nation's 50 largest cities graduate from high school."

Part of the myth that sustains poverty and oppression in the United States is that we have a continuum of opportunity rather than dividing spectrums according to class and economic distinction. This supports the myth that our political system is a democracy and that opportunities for economic success (and sometimes even survival) is not predetermined.

In this article by John Taylor Gatto, he describes how the leadership in the United States set up the compulsory education program we have today based on the success of a similar model used in Prussia to discourage democracy and free thought in favor of a powerful military. Those targeted for this type of education were not those who were thought to be the future leaders but instead were expected to be soldiers or exploited factory workers who would do well at following orders.

On the other hand, the leadership of the United States, is provided a very different type of education where their esteem and the validity of their ideas are encouraged.

In this interview Gatto explains more about the validity of the standardized tests given to US public school students. Here is an excerpt from the interview: (JTG is an abbreviation for John Taylor Gatto)


"MP: That's exactly the problem. See, if your kid is already scoring 95 percent on the standardized tests, you think, "Boy, this is great, right?"

JTG: No! The tests don't measure what they purport to measure. I guarantee you they don't do that. Let me give you an experiment you could run anywhere in this country and it will work. I used to take the kids who scored the very highest on the standardized tests. I would say, "I will demonstrate to you that you don't know how to read, even though your test score says that you know how to read better than anybody in the school." So I'd get these groups together, I mean, I'd do this year after year, and I would give them an extremely simple classic book to read, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. It's still in print, sells more copies in the year 2000 than it ever sold in 1928 when it was printed. It's a story of teenagers in the first world war. It's written in teenage language, with teenage concepts, and there are hardly any three-syllable words in the book, I mean it's mostly one- or two-syllable words, so it's extremely simple to read. I said, "I will give you an open book test on the first 20 pages of that book, and I will be very surprised if anyone in here passes the test.

See, standardized tests, even though all the questions look different, really arrange themselves in six, seven, or eight different patterns of extracting information from the reading selection. In actual fact there are about 168 separate ways to extract information from a reading selection. Most people who read a lot learn those things automatically; they don't have to be taught them. But when you're taught reading, and when you think the prize is getting a high score on a standardized test, what happens inside your mind (this is really diabolical) is, if you're efficient, you tend to concentrate harder on the things that you recognize will show up as questions and answers on the test. You may not be aware you're doing that, but it will happen inevitably. As a consequence, out of the 168, you miss about 160 types of information that are in the reading selection."

 

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Here Gatto explains:




"The Fear Of Common Intelligence

The fear of common people learning too much is a recurrent theme in state records around the world. The founder of the Chinese state, the Emperor Ts’in She Hwang-ti, burned the work of the philosophers for fear their ideas would poison his own plans. The Caliph Ùmar of Syria wrote instructions to destroy the perhaps apocryphal library at Alexandria, using this airtight syllogism:

If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed.2

Literary bonfires in Nazi Germany are often invoked as a vivid symbol of the deepest barbarism of the twentieth century, but extensive press coverage ended the book burning by stirring public uneasiness worldwide. Much more effective have been those silent blast furnaces used by public library systems and great American universities to dispose of 3 million excess books annually because of a shortage of shelf space. Why aren’t they given to schools?

There are other ways to burn books without matches. Consider the great leap forward undertaken in the modern Turkish state under Kemal Ataturk. Unlike Hitler, who burned only some of the past, Ataturk burned it all without fire by radically changing the Turkish national alphabet so that all the vital writings of the past were entombed in an obsolete symbol system. Not a single Turk voted to have this done, yet all accepted it.

From 1929 on, all books and newspapers were printed in the new alphabet. All documents were composed in it. All schoolchildren were instructed in it and no other. The classics of Persia, Arabia, and Turkey vanished without a trace for the next generation. Obliterate the national memory bound up in history and literature, sift carefully what can be translated, and you open a gulf between old and young, past and present, which can’t be bridged, rendering children vulnerable to any form of synthetic lore authorities deem advisable.

 
Turkish experimentation is echoed today in mainland China where a fifth of the population of the planet is cut off from the long past of Chinese literature and philosophy, one of the very few significant bodies of thought on the human record. The method being used is a radical simplification of the characters of the language which will have, in the fullness of time, the same effect as burning books, putting them effectively out of reach. Lord Lindsay of Birker, a professor at Yenching University outside Beijing where I recently went to see for myself the effects of Westernization on the young Chinese elite, says the generation educated entirely in simplified characters will have difficulty reading anything published in China before the late 1950s.

First, said Plato, wipe the slate clean.

There are many ways to burn books without a match. You can order the reading of childish books to be substituted for serious ones, as we have done. You can simplify the language you allow in school books to the point that students become disgusted with reading because it demeans them, being thinner gruel than their spoken speech. We have done that, too. One subtle and very effective strategy is to fill books with pictures and lively graphics so they trivialize words in the same fashion the worst tabloid newspapers do – forcing pictures and graphs into space where readers should be building pictures of their own, preempting space into which personal intellect should be expanding. In this we are the world’s master.

Samuel Johnson entered a note into his diary several hundred years ago about the powerful effect reading Hamlet was having upon him. He was nine at the time. Abraham Cowley wrote of his "infinite delight" with Spenser’s Faerie Queen – an epic poem that treats moral values allegorically in nine-line stanzas that never existed before Spenser (and hardly since). He spoke of his pleasure with its "Stories of Knights and Giants and Monsters and Brave Houses." Cowley was twelve at the time. It couldn’t have been an easy read in 1630 for anyone, and it’s beyond the reach of many elite college graduates today. What happened? The answer is that Dick and Jane happened. "Frank had a dog. His name was Spot." That happened."

 

 

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So the goal of standard education is to standardize people and standardize their behavior. This is consistent with encouraging Applied Behavior Analysis in schools and more specifically Statewide Positive Behavioral Support. If all people can be seen as being motivated by the same things, they can be ranked accordingly. This ranking is how individuals and individualistic views are discouraged.

People who communicate differently and may be more prone to different views and alternatives to tradition are a threat to polite society. Neurological differences (including autism) are not and cannot be respected while at the same time respecting tradition, scholastics, and politics. This realm is opposed to all types of diversity and all types of creative thinking.

The Internet is not inclusive of people with neurological differences. The exclusion of autistic people is supported by advocates who are interested more in a convenient tradition and showing how several autistics are already meeting the standards rather than revealing the contradiction and broadening those standards with a new way of looking at communication which traditional leaders have not yet explored.

If there is to be a change in how autistic people are treated it will come from listening to autistic people rather than continuing to honor the ongoing traditional attitude of ambitious scientists and politicians who demean and exclude us.

Designing Disorder

 

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What threatens the continuation of the human species more than the ignorance of those who carry that label is the acceptance of wisdom and knowledge of those who do the labeling.  What gets declared modern culture, western civilization, and scientific knowledge, receives a great deal of unearned respect and praise due to the many myths, which are advertised by those who have the power and means to do so.  These are of course the people who benefit from such beliefs.

Compulsory education was never meant to be a liberator the way it's often claimed, and it was always understood by those who promoted this discipline that most people would be excluded by it.

By praising this institution, children were taught racism, consumerism, bullying, and many fantastic notions about the nature of humans.

The worst of what is promoted in schools is that leaders who are said to have earned that position are able to determine the nature of human thought patterns, promote particular public policy,advance warfare research using unwilling vulnerable subjects, harshly discriminate against diverse expression and alternatives to tradition in order to promote progress and a more civilized atmosphere.

 

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Nothing has been used more to exploit people than the unrealistic hopes and expectations of modern medicine.  With so many willing to trust in the magic potions created in the royal name of science this industry naturally chose to diversify and work with government officials to establish law and order according to a new science/product called psychology.  This was added to the use of toxic potions meant to subdue and encourage compliance (called psychiatry)and the whole system works together to show how only a few elites are able to escape intellectual deficits and thinking disorders.

 

The one unique ability common to all creatures is that of cooperating with nature AND influencing their own future according to their understanding, of how they fit.  It's not natural for people to believe that they don't fit.  To encourage such myths require the aid of government, scholastic's, social engineers, and commercial advertising.

Nothing could help to discourage humans more than the belief that their ability to think and plan is disordered so that they feel vulnerable, dependent, and useless.

Communication disorders (also given the convenient title of thinking disorders) are due to diversity of the human species which influence how people think and express themselves in different ways.  Disorder comes from a lack of acceptance and an attempt to understand the difference and yet the different individual rather than the system which created this supposed order as the result of prejudice, receives the blame. 

We're configured in a variety of ways and have a multitude of experiences which science and medicine cannot track, study, or create statistics for.  We have a mind which no microscope or sophisticated scientific instrument can provide a better understanding of. 

If we're to maintain our dignity and encourage hope to fellow men and women, we must understand that it is the system which governs us that is incapable of determining a positive outcome for our future despite their attempts to do so.  Order will come from the creativity we command when we choose to question our oppressors and think outside of the narrow context we have been taught to worship by the name of science, medicine, and scholastic achievement.

The Employment of Bullies

 
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In today's society puppeteer (metaphorically speaking) is a well respected craft. Controlling the behavior of the masses of people is what people see as being most important and therefor someone or some group that can do it with subtlety, nuance, and wide acceptance from the public will be provided for and encouraged.

As a society we understand that someone who can instill trust in the hearts of the public will be the most creative and genuine guide to diversity and harmony but such a person becoming worthy of that trust requires patience. Exclusionary leaders skillful in methods of control are the convenient choice.

More than anyone a bully understands the threat of being seen as inferior, and they are haunted by the revelation of their personal deficits. Aggression may be the only way they see to prove their worth and avoid the fate of their victim.

Those of us who advocate for better public policies need to understand that leaders tend to be chosen based on their ability to control rather than based on being someone who we trust for real and lasting changes. This leads to policies designed to exclude and diminish the appearance of value for honesty and/or vulnerability.

    

 

 

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Autistics are inconvenient when it comes to protecting social standards. We often don't have an understanding of etiquette and the exchange of pleasantries and are vulnerable to abuse in places where this determines what, and therefor, who is right or wrong/good or bad. Everyone knows this is nothing but an exclusionary means of entertainment at the expense of people who are unskilled at it but protecting it requires keeping the unskilled, compliant as well as silent. When people aren't that way they become quite inconvenient.

With the recent claims of autism being something a person has (described by terms such as "having autism") the door has been opened for opportunists of all types to see autistics as a convenient means for their agenda.

The goal behind discouraging vaccinations has always been based on the idea that giving people an opportunity to survive when their weakness/defenses would not provide for it is an unnatural provision and a threat to the evolutionary process. The vain illusions of strength (that replace the need for responsible evaluations and trusting relationships) are what protects the justification for the atrocities committed by advantaged races of people who were attempting to secure what they claim to be their "rightful place of athority"on this planet.

Since autistics have been found convenient for the experimentation of weaponry used in warfare being studied at our finest scholastic institutions, we now have applied behaviorism described as scientifically justified, and the forcing of toxic compliance drugs (hallucinogens, antipsychotics, amphetamines, etc.) seen as therapeutic intervention.

Of course using autistics to promote anti-vax propaganda, and prenatal screening for the disabled is a result of how the public has been misled.

This is a recent story which shows how societal views of autistic people result in bullying :Evil teenagers who 'tortured' autistic boy, 17, for three days free to roam streets after judge fails to lock them up

To say that what these teenagers did was unlawful may be misleading. What they obviously did "wrong", which was reported by the media was getting caught. The rule (although mainly unspoken) for getting caught doing the bidding of an exclusionary society is that you may not have their protection if caught. It's similar to expecting a spy to take cyanide poisoning if caught rather than reveal the information of those who sent them.

I hope these teenagers will be punished in the same way as any bully who committed such an act, but I also hope the broader public will evaluate attitudes that encourage such behavior rather than continuing the cycle of scapegoating responsibility.

Eliminating the Jukes (crime, disability, and eugenics)

In order to understand the historical events which have influenced current efforts to control the population it's important to look at how propaganda has been used to shape modern mainstream attitudes. It's convenient to claim that science is the alternative to propaganda but to do so can be misleading.

In the United States(which has a corporate-run government) corporations have had increasingly greater control over public policy and laws and scientific findings, which is not only the way to encourage scholastics rather than common sense but also to praise the enterprises of psychology and governmental evaluations of humans.

Because the law discriminates against people with disabilities it's seeming fair to say that having a disability is practically against the law. This means that poverty and disability (of course the disabled are often sentenced to a life of poverty) a disabled person is subjected to the same character evaluation as that of a criminal.

Many of those studied as being part of Juke family described by the Dugdale findings was originally described as a group of cement miners for Rosendale Cement, who were driven out of business by the introduction an inferior product which was quicker drying. The economic hardship made them vulnerable to being seen as a burden and therefore, propaganda was used to show their character as being undesirable.

It says here:

The Jukes in 1915

"In 1875 Richard L. Dugdale made the first public announcement of his study of the Juke family in the annual report of the Prison Association of New York, of whose executive committee he was a member."

Dugdale's findings indicated:

"The total cost to the State of New York of this one group of mental and social degenerates was estimated, for a period of 75 years beginning in 1800, at $1,308,000."

Here it says:    

Article: Eugenics Past and Present

"Although Dugdale's study stressed that the Jukes's misfortune could be blamed as much on environmental factors as on heredity, it facilitated inaccurate beliefs that behaviors are genetically inherited. Many people concluded that crime, poverty, and disease were both innate and closely associated with sexual promiscuity, mental illness, and idiocy.(3) At the time, scholars overlooked the fact that Dugdale's findings included only one case of mental retardation out of 709 subjects.

During the years following the study, eugenicists offered a variety of solutions for what they saw as the problems of inherited criminality, harlotry, mental retardation, and feeblemindedness. One solution was the institutional internment and segregation of people with cognitive or emotional impairments. Another was the prohibition of marriage between people with developmental delays or social maladjustments. In 1895, Connecticut became the first state to ban marriage between "defective" persons. Eventually, forty-one other states ratified comparable legislation. But the marriage laws proved difficult to enforce, and eugenicists turned to other, more drastic measures.(4)

The medical profession introduced new possibilities for eradicating "the problem." Eugenicists had already touted castration as a means of protecting institutionalized patients from the evils of sexual promiscuity and ensuring that they had no offspring.(5) In 1897, the first reported vasectomy in the United States offered a seemingly less extreme method of sterilization."

It appealed to the pride of valued American voters to be afraid of and therefor prejudiced against the mixing of what was described race. The Jukes were shown to have interracial marriages and handicapped children.

The word Juke used in the term Juke box has this origin:


"REGIONAL NOTE   Gullah, the English-based Creole language spoken by people of African ancestry off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, retains a number of words from the West African languages brought over by slaves. One such word is juke, "bad, wicked, disorderly," the probable source of the English word juke. Used originally in Florida and then chiefly in the Southeastern states, juke (also appearing in the compound juke joint) was an African-American word meaning a roadside drinking establishment that offers cheap drinks, food, and music for dancing and often doubles as a brothel. "To juke" is to dance, particularly at a juke joint or to the music of a jukebox whose name, no longer regional and having lost the connotation of sleaziness, contains the same word."


The measuring of intelligence and the measuring of disability is a numbers game used for objectifying humans for the purposes of governmental control/population control. Intelligence is still evaluated by test created by eugenist.

The founder of eugenics ( Sir Francis Galton)  found ways to evaluate beauty/ability based on how closely someone resembled a Scottish person (the Scottish were terby targeted as being infereior/ugly).

We use these numbers today to evaluate everything from severity of depression 1-10 to super models 1-10.

Second generation eugenist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

"in Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), where he found no constitutional bar to state-ordered compulsory sterilization of an institutionalized, allegedly "feeble-minded" woman. Holmes wrote, "We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. ... three generations of imbeciles are enough." 

 The way autistics are treated is shown clearly by the abuse at the Judge Rotenburg Center described by some as the "School of Shock".

 

In the   History of JRC

by Matthew L. Israel

1971-1985: Beginnings, Philosophy and Early Growth

it says:

"While this litigation was taking place, in late 1985 and early 1986, JRC brought one of its seriously self-abusive, autistic students before the Bristol County Probate Court for a substituted judgment hearing that was held by Chief Judge Ernest Rotenberg. After hearing testimony on both sides of the issue, Judge Rotenberg determined: (1) that the student was incompetent to make her own medical treatment decisions; and (2) that the child, if competent, would have chosen treatment that included the use of the aversives that JRC had been employing, prior to the decision by the administrative judge. This substituted judgment hearing was the same type of hearing that was required in Massachusetts for individuals for whom agencies wished to employ psychotropic medication (or other intrusive medical procedures) and who were incompetent to make their own treatment decisions"

The United States has contributed greatly to how the praise of Western civilization (which is evaluated by Scholastic achievement among the elite) leads to an evaluation of humans and discrimination against the less valued human characteristics. These evaluations include race (as it was defined by Darwin and other scholars), ability (based on industries need to mass market products), and character (which is often determined by conveniently defining behavior in order to control it rather than taking the time to develop trusting relationships).

Industry leaders and politicians have abused the public's false sense of pride to campaign for discriminatory laws and to encourage competition between workers. While it may seem more rational to promote unity it's important to remember that politics and corporate control are not influenced to promote unity but instead to create division and conflict.

The goal of those who promote population control (now mainly advertised as environmental purity and even disguised as pollution control for industries) is to make life more difficult for particular types of people, so they can be seen as inferior and thus eliminated.

For autistics, it's important and crucial to be included in education, job training, etc. and the system which provides those opportunities will have to change in a radical way for that to happen. For radical change people who are not involved in the system must challenge the system rather than agree to the compromises which are advertised as incremental alterations, which make things better.

Much of what the Nazis designed was claimed to be for purity by government control (in other words, using socialism to objectify humans by using numbers). The designers expanded on the ideas of the eugenics movement in the United States.

After the war "studies" were conducted by scholars and medical professionals in places such as the National Institute of Health in order to find ways to manipulate the human thought process by manipulating animalistic responses.  Animal and plant breeders played a crucial role in the creation of the eugenics movement.

This was based on the theories of behaviorism.


Darwin and Galton's research were enabled by Pavlov, who studied animal behavior. The MK ultra project conducted by Dr. Cameron was described by Naomi Klein in this way:

"Naomi Klein states in her book "The Shock Doctrine" that Dr Cameron's research and his contribution to the MKUltra project was actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but about "to design a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources.' In other words, torture."


Science and art work together in the industry of psychology/psychiatry to promote the idea that autism is the expression similar to that of other sentient beings/animals so that behavioral therapies can be used to fix autistic people. This has led to some of the worst atrocities disguised as treatments for autistics.

Other sentient beings don't have the same need for identity, and identity is what provides humans with the distinction from other animals, which encourages our confidence and self-respect. The distinction between the two is not the provision for other animals to be mistreated but polarizing the debate in that way often gives animal rights advocates a platform for justifying something, which doesn't require it.

Autistics are described as not having empathy in a similar way that a predator animal does have emotions about its prey. Our emotions are presumed by behaviorists to be displaying primal behavior and therefor horrific "treatments" have been conveniently justified as the need for control. An environment of trust takes more effort but the results don't require fixing the way the results of control do.

It's very important to remember that encouraging dignity and respect for autistic people should be more important than anything. If you don't listen to autistic people and allow them to express themselves and accept the diverse ways we do that, you are not only describing what people have that should be fixed, but also you are describing who people are and why they need to be eliminated from our culture and what is described as our "gene pool."

This is very important to remember when evaluating what disability is in today's culture and the role that developmental disabilities such as autism have on the decisions of government in terms of accommodation. It's important to realize that in order for persons with disabilities to be accommodated this has traditionally meant sacrificing the dignity and respect that others are privileged to receive as an aspect of being human.




US Farmers are encouraged to buy seed, which can only be used along with a fertilizer the same company also provides. The farmers who do this are provided subsidies from the government and would not be able to run their farms otherwise. In a similar way, the school system excludes people with particular types of learning disabilities, and then subsidized professionals who sell the solution. However, the subsidies for autism are mainly focused on how to eliminate autistic people and therefor much of the therapy and accommodation claims are misleading.

Autistics began "having autism" based on unsubstantiated claims that it could be fixed. This "having" something is NOT revolutionary but is instead the opposite. It is a mystical notion which has been used to justify exorcisms, lobotomies, etc.Once people have something for which there is no cure, getting rid of the people based on propaganda and the discrimination which results is a much easier task.

We can't depend on politics to change people because the majority of people are not included in politics and the corporations are not interested in empowerment. People, however, can influence politics but only if the approach is sufficiently radical.

Varieties of Eugenics Experience in the 21st Century - Part 1

Varieties of Eugenics Experience in the 21st Century - Part 2

Varieties of Eugenics Experience in the 21st Century - Part 3

Varieties of Eugenics Experience in the 21st Century - Part 4

When Attitudes and Expectations are Reckless, Autistics get Hurt

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Among the things which have been made clearer to me by seeing how other autistics tend to respond similarly is the way that an attribute is described as pathological for the sake of convenience.

The most important thing I think people should be aware of about autism is that the experience of an autistic person is not validated by any societal norm. Everything about the ways that we evaluate the validity of experience encourages the exclusion and discrimination of autistic people.

This can be attributed to the way that psychology attempts to brand people and the extremely offensive campaigns by such groups as Autism Speaks. However, it can also be attributed to the way that characteristics of an autistic person have typically always been seen by societal standards as something that a healthy normal person should strive to eliminate.

It's much more convenient to tell people to trust than it is to change the environment so that people have a reason to.

We have the most offensive, toxic, Sakrin-coated, fantastic, exchange of pleasantries in society that make claims such as, "Everyone should just be themselves.", "People are the same wherever you go." "We should all just try harder to get along with each other. ", "If people are having problems in their life it's their own fault because they have the wrong attitude.", and "There is no such thing as normal or disabled but a person's individual belief system is what determines what their life will be like."

The worst part of this type of message, whether it be overt or subtle is that this is claimed to be a way to discourage prejudice and bigotry yet the effect is completely opposite. Convenience is the root of a lot of evil, and discomfort is inconvenient. It doesn't matter whether you are directly discouraging a person or encouraging the standards that will ultimately exclude them. The effect is the same, and both are the result of convenient thinking.

One of my attributes of being an autistic person is that I am able to focus on a single subject for comparatively long periods of time. This is also related to being someone who is dedicated, who takes commitments seriously, and is very loyal. Besides this being described as obsessive, if I have difficulty understanding something or expectation is placed on me and my inability to do it is seen by others as a character flaw I will have a great deal of difficulty escaping a chaotic trend of miscommunications and stressful interactions with others.

At this point, whatever positive characteristics I may have are disregarded, and I am then alienated for either being beyond help, or being unwilling to follow the conventions of what is typically considered to be help.

To see beyond these options and explore how some people may experience life in a different way, and therefor need different types of accommodations is very inconvenient, and it opposes the social norms that give most people a sense of pride and dignity. The autistic person must carry the burden in order to provide others with the liberty/privilege/convenience of how they pride themselves.

Because I indicate something personal in what I write, and because I use words that age appropriate standards have declared to be attributed to someone educated beyond 5th grade, conventions encourage people to look beyond the validity of what I have said and personally attack the one who said it. These norms are the result of influence by the education/psychology industry.

There's no need to look at the ways standards are doing us a disservice if we can instead categorize people with particular levels of functioning labels and depend on scientific breakthroughs to eliminate our monsters and develop a pure and stress-free utopian environment.

At this point, what that means is that when an autistic person becomes old enough to no longer be eligible for services (which would be typical for a person with a developmental disability who is evaluated by arbitrary age appropriate standards) they have nothing left to offer their environment, and you will continually have to find ways of dismissing what they say rather than evaluate mistakes and make appropriate changes. The cycle gets worse with time.

More people will become inconvenient and the demands will become harsher so that people can either be ignored, eliminated, or serve as examples of what the next generation must overcome. Rather than repeating these mistakes, people can instead choose to take the time and effort to get involved in the lives of autistic people now and empower them. The current standards will eventually become inconvenient as autistic adults who have been taught that they are a waste of space, oxygen, and food don't respond any better to wrongful treatment.

Fixing, Maintaining, and Compliance Training (dangers in medicine)

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One of the most chaotic and harmful issues that Americans are now having to face is the state of the medical care system. There are many aspects of the system and many influences but what seems to be most crucial is what the commercial advertising of medicine has trained consumers to believe is the objective and capability of doctors.

The government in the United States is more influenced by corporatism than capitalism. This is one of the misunderstandings that leads people to misjudge the medical system. The encouragement of corporations and the lack of responsibility and regulation placed on them is what mainly dictates how they operate.

The insurance companies are part of a major industry unto themselves and are corrupted by their insatiable appetite. This includes Medicare insurance, which is meant to be provided to the most vulnerable. Like many of the corruptions in this country Medicare insurance avoids their responsibility and blames the consumer for the majority of abuses.

There are treatment providers with a more holistic approach that are attempting to compete for FDA approval, which will allow their clients to use insurance for their payment. Unfortunately, only people with the most financial resources will even seek this kind of treatment and are practically the only ones who will report the abuses for any of  the treatments they receive.

A major part of the chaos in the medical system is due to their fantastic notions for how to analyze and control human behavior. In whatever ways medicine has become more sophisticated in order to improve our health it has become more barbaric in how it inhumanely injures the body and attacks the spirit all in the name of behavioral health.

It is reasonable to judge that if someone's body temperature is not regulated to within several degrees of 98.6 that some type of adjustment needs to be made, and medicine has shown to be an effective treatment. However, when a standard is set by medical authorities for the normal range how emotion is expressed in how typical behavior should appear the worst atrocities in medicine can be justified.

The atrocities committed against autistic people in particular have traditionally begun with an interpretation of behavior due to how it is compared to a formal written as well as informal social description of normal behavior. This is further complicated by intellectual reasoning within an exclusive environment. Therefor different types of intellect which are common for autistics are even more discriminated against. The particular vulnerabilities within  an environment where people are valued by their ability to interact socially excludes autistics as well as encourages the worst types of treatment.

In recent years this has become evident by the mystical notions of extracting the element that causes autism from the body and snake oil treatments which are used for control. The only time it ever seems to be accepted is when people believe they can force compliance with behavioral treatments.

No matter the ways medicine was originally meant to serve US citizens, it now often has the opposite effect. To add to the confusion and disrupt a unified effort to change the system, those who have provided aid (mainly through the Democratic political party) have taught us to believe in identity politics. It's almost impossible to mention a particular need which is been identified within medicine, medical treatments, or the educational and access adaptations for the disabled, without identifying with the myth that the resources are scarce. In this way advocates separate themselves from each other and fight against each other with claims of severity and some even argue that there are those who are more worthy of access and accommodation than others.

All medicine can do is create a condition within the body that will relieve particular symptoms. Surgery can't do much more than that. In fact, much of the surgery which we have today has less to do with what doctors have learned from scientific research, and more to do with the fact that we now have anesthesia so the body can be altered without pain. Most of what is done to the body through medicine is simply an alteration of how the body operates.

 

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Behavior being treated by medicine has changed everything about how we view the human experience and how society is addicted to controlling experience at the expense of an environment of trust.

Anything with the powerful potential that medicine has for doing good can be used in an equally destructive way. Any such power that the public does not acknowledge and respect with caution may be used by people with a bad agenda.

We can use any tool, including medicine to make our lives better but anything that has the potential to promote fighting against each other or treating each other with less dignity needs to at least be closely and continually monitored.                                                            

The Best were Never Better

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Plato on Eugenics and Euthinasia:

"Plato specifically endorsed murdering "weak" children in favor of the "strong".  Similarly, he advocated that only men and women with superior characteristics be allowed to mate and bear children.  Plato's student Aristotle made similar arguments."

A very small group are chosen from the world's most elite families to participate in the discipline most commonly known by the general term "higher education". A larger group, although still a small percentage, participate in primary education but few of these ever reach the status given to those who are chosen to receive sophisticated knowledge.

From the group of the highly educated people, there are academics and theorists that use their knowledge to create new variations for social designs. The exaggerated status and isolation these students experience has prevented much in the way of creativity for their hypothesis within the last several centuries.

Although it seems we are advancing very quickly within the realm of technology the attitudes which stem from the propaganda of social designers has severely retarded our growth for becoming more civilized.

The ways we are taught to idolize unattainable and commercial illusions of what we should be along with the way that contributes to false perceptions about the paths which are claimed to liberate us, causes stagnation, frustration, and self-destruction.

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Social Darwinism has been used for more than a century by elitist to justify the atrocities committed by the British Empire and the discrimination of those they have labeled as products of inferior racial heritage.

Since our appetites are now seen by so many who are in the roles of leadership as our primary purpose in life, having control of our lives is often increasingly difficult to attain. With everyone frantic to find the most convenient route to the gratification of our senses, we become more impaired and more dependent on the leaders who are unworthy of our trust.

Rather than encouraging an environment of trust, our leaders keep us disenfranchised by promoting games that create unhealthy competition and identity politics.

This very design is woven into the fabric of our educational system. The laws that have protected compulsory schooling for children have created the fundamental building blocks of unlimited numbers of biased evaluations.

When cultural experiences can be homogenized each person can be ranked according to the perception that everyone (if found competent) is interested in the same goals. This is the theory that drives the United States to institutionalize, in one form or another, so many of its citizens.


 Wikipedia speaks of the concept of rankism when describing bullying.

"Rankism is a term coined by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller. Fuller has defined rankism as: "abusive, discriminatory, or exploitative behavior towards people who have less power because of their lower rank in a particular hierarchy"[1]. Fuller claims that rankism also describes the abuse of the power inherent in superior rank, with the view that rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, sexism, and homophobia."

Bullying is expressed clearly in many of the clubs in our sophisticated institutions (that many of our national leaders join) as an initiation. This is an example of how our culture views of the role of authority and the rights it provides.It's given a sophisticated name. It's called hazing.

"Hazing is a term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.

Hazing is seen in many different types of groups, including in gangs, clubs, sports teams, military units, and workplaces. In the United States and Canada, hazing is often associated with Greek-letter organizations (fraternities and sororities). Hazing is often prohibited by law and may be either physical (possibly violent) or mental (possibly degrading) practices. It may also include nudity or sexually oriented activities."

Since the industrial revolution when most jobs required for more physical labor we have moved toward being more dependent on the technological industry where intellect is more important. With the new advances in technology our educational facilities have become much more sophisticated and yet much more exclusive. This means that today's bullies are more likely to be of the intellectual variety than the physical.

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The education industry has provided for the registering and ranking of people due to an even more nebulous standard of intellect, which has provided for an even bigger percentage of elites, stricter class divisions, and more promotions of the claim that intelligence is the scale which determines a moral character.

Two of the main influences on the institutional oppression in the United States from the political organizations of psychiatry, psychology, and higher education were the ideals of the Eugenics movement and Moral Treatment movement.

The eugenics movement based their survival-of-the-fittest social aspirations on the theories of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton .Moral treatment was most heavily influenced by Benjamin Rush and Dorothea Dix.

Eugenic ideals are used in the United States for the registering and ranking of people with the least financial resources. The tools used were naturalization laws, intelligence quotient (I.Q.) test, and SAT scores. These determined a person's value to the government based on their ability to integrate and the typical nature of their neurology.


In this aricle :The Roots of the I.Q. Debate Eugenics and Social Control By Margaret Quigley, she says:

"To revisit the eugenics movement of the early 20th-century is to be reminded of the harm the movement intended toward those members of society least able to defend themselves. History, in this case, may help to provide an antidote to contemporary manifestations of eugenicist arguments--the I. Q. debate and the right's anti-immigrant campaign.

 Any historical appraisal of the eugenics movement needs to step carefully to avoid imposing the values of the late 20th-century upon eugenicists, especially concerning the question of motivation. The legitimate, scientific framework of the eugenics movement, a mainstream view at the beginning of the century, has been for the most part abandoned by scientists in the years since then.

Similarly, to a great extent, racialist thinking, and in particular white supremacy, was neither questioned nor challenged among the white-dominated intelligentsia of the time. At the same time, the fact that white supremacist views were more acceptable in white society at the turn of the century still allows for gradations of focus and virulence; the question of the extent to which hereditarian arguments may have functioned as a pretext for a movement primarily concerned with the continuation of social and political dominance by upper-class, Protestant men of Anglo-Saxon background is unavoidable."

Of the practical uses for I.Q. tests she says:

"When the World War I-era IQ testing of all soldiers indicated that almost half of all white recruits were morons according to the newly developed Stanford Binet test, as were 89 percent of all black recruits, the eugenics movement seemed more important and believable."

The object was to reinstate and/or preserve the mentality of the peroiod of slavery when southern plantations made the biggest contribtions to the US economy. This mentality included humiliation in order to encourage servitude and control of avoiding the responsibility associated with trust.

"One American eugenicist said harshly:

    "The economic conservatism of the movement was very clear. Faced with a social problem, the eugenicist leapt to the conclusion that it was the individual who must change to accommodate society (which is one reason why conservative commentators frequently argued that eugenics was a liberal movement committed to the supremacy of the community over the individual)."

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I was born in a Lynchburg Virginia hospital and lived in a very poor rural town nearby. I was described as mentally defective at birth due to injury, denied even an elementary school education, and was committed to Western State mental hospital  as well as other such facilities (totaling several years) for the inability to care for myself as an adult.

During the time the following book excerpt was written one appropriate term used for my condition was "feeble-minded". My grandfather is from the place mentioned in the book .One of my aunts was employed at The Lynchburg Colony around the time I was born.

This is from The War Against the Weak by Edwin Black


 

 "A single day in the 1930s was typical. The Montgomery County sheriff drove up unannounced onto Brush Mountain and began one of his many raids against the hill families considered socially inadequate. More precisely, these hill families were deemed “unfit,” that is, unfit to exist in nature. On this day the Montgomery County sheriff grabbed six brothers from one family, bundled them into several vehicles and then disappeared down the road. Earlier, the sheriff had come for the boys’ sister. Another time, deputies snared two cousins.

     “I don’t know how many others they took, but they were after a lot of them,” recalled Howard Hale, a former Montgomery County supervisor, as he relived the period for a local Virginia newspaper reporter a half century later. From Brush Mountain, the sheriff’s human catch was trucked to a variety of special destinations, such as Western State Hospital in Staunton, Virginia. Western State Hospital, formerly known as the Western Lunatic Asylum, loomed as a tall-columned colonial edifice near a hill at the edge of town. The asylum was once known for its so-called “moral therapy,” devised by Director Dr. Francis T. Stribling, who later became one of the thirteen founding members of the American Psychiatric Association. By the time Brush Mountain hillbillies were transported there, Western housed not only those deemed insane, but also the so-called “feebleminded.”

     No one was quite sure how “feebleminded” was defined. No matter. The county authorities were certain that the hill folk swept up in their raids were indeed mentally—and genetically—defective. As such, they would not be permitted to breed more of their kind.

     How? These simple mountain people were systematically sterilized under a Virginia law compelling such operations for those ruled unfit. Often, the teenage boys and girls placed under the surgeon’s knife did not really comprehend the ramifications. Sometimes they were told they were undergoing an appendectomy or some other unspecified procedure. Generally, they were released after the operation. Many of the victims did not discover why they could not bear children until decades later when the truth was finally revealed to them by local Virginia investigative reporters and government reformers.

     Western State Hospital in Staunton was not Virginia’s only sterilization mill. Others dotted the state’s map, including the Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded near Lynchburg, the nation’s largest facility of its kind and the state’s greatest center of sterilization. Lynchburg and Western were augmented by hospitals at Petersburg, Williamsburg and Marion. Lower-class white boys and girls from the mountains, from the outskirts of small towns and big city slums were sterilized in assembly line fashion. So were American Indians, Blacks, epileptics and those suffering from certain maladies—day after day, thousands of them as though orchestrated by some giant machine.

     Retired Montgomery County Welfare Director Kate Bolton recalled with pride, “The children were legally committed by the court for being feebleminded, and there was a waiting list from here to Lynchburg.” She added, “If you’ve seen as much suffering and depravity as I have, you can only hope and pray no one else goes through something like that. We had to stop it at the root.”

Much of what is typically referenced as contributing to the progress made in mental institutions and for the mentally ill and developmental disabled in the United States is the result of the Moral Treatment movement.


Benjamin Rush's contribution was involved in medicalizing the black race as a condition which was seen to have retarded black people's development to even the point of being less than human. This contributed to the idea that the white race had evolved further and was therefor more sophisticated and civil.

Dorothy Dix contribution was to encourage institutionalization from the proposals outlined in the Kirkbride Plan.

The United States has always been a corporate experiment which uses institutionalization and trans-institutionalization as a way of hiding, ignoring, and torturing inconvenient public enemies.

This is taken from how Wikipedia defines institutionalization:

"The term "institutionalisation" is widely used in social theory to refer to the process of embedding something (for example a concept, a social role, a particular value or mode of behaviour) within an organisation, social system, or society as a whole. The term may also be used to refer to committing a particular individual to an institution, such as a mental institution. To this extent, "institutionalisation" may carry negative connotations regarding the treatment of, and damage caused to, vulnerable human beings by the oppressive or corrupt application of inflexible systems of social, medical, or legal controls by publicly owned, private or not-for-profit organisations.

The term "institutionalisation" may also be used in a political sense to apply to the creation or organisation of governmental institutions or particular bodies responsible for overseeing or implementing policy, for example in welfare or development."

The mental institutions in the United States are now used to incarcerate and contain social outcast and the attitude toward this group has changed very little. Today the sophisticated intellectuals continue to bully others with their social influence, and often they are justified by even more laws.

Parts of the compulsory public education in the United States was designed based on the militaristic views of the Prussian government. The so-called reforming of our educational system continues to be mainly influenced by the liberal elite who was originally behind the Moral Treatment movement. This is why pity and shame are such effective weapons against the disabled and are continued to be revered as morally based.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a United States federal law that governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities. It addresses the educational needs of children with disabilities from birth to age 21[1][2] in cases that involve 13 specified categories of disability.

Also:

"The reauthorization of IDEA in 2004 revised the statute to align with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). NCLB allows financial incentives to states who improve their special education services and services for all students."

The No Child left Behind Act:

"NCLB is the latest federal legislation that enacts the theories of standards-based education reform, which is based on the belief that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education."

"And the IEP:

"In the United States an Individualized Education Program, commonly referred to as an IEP, is mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). In Canada and the United Kingdom, an equivalent document is called an Individual Education Plan.

In the US, the IDEA requires public schools to develop an IEP for every student with a disability who is found to meet the federal and state requirements for special education.^[1] The IEP must be designed to provide the child with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). The IEP refers both to the educational program to be provided to a child with a disability and to the written document that describes that educational program. At the end of twelfth grade, students with disabilities will receive an IEP diploma if they have successfully met the IEP goals. If they have not met the requirements for the high school diploma, then the IEP diploma is not awarded."

These programs work very closely with the registering and ranking of statewide positive behavioral support (the method of providing one specific and detailed standards based on Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) to all criminals, disabled people, and school children) which documents each detail of how a person's behavior is evolving to be more sophisticated and socially acceptable.

Positive behavioral support was recently encouraged in the bill HR 4247 known as Keeping All Students Safe Act which deceptively claims that it will reduce harmful restraints and seclusion.

 

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This says of Behaviorism:

"The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind.[2] Behaviorism comprises the position that all theories should have observational correlates  but that there are no philosophical differences between publicly observable processes (such as actions) and privately observable processes (such as thinking and feeling)"

Governing our institutions based on these beliefs would provide for a state religion and a government operating in a similar way as ones ruled by fascism. This allows for only what science can describe as "real" to be the judge of our behavior, character, and worth. Only the ways that we respond to stimulus according to our animal nature are seen as the valid basis for any of the ways we act. We are seen as having no mind, no soul, and therefore, no free-will. This provides for the strictest of authoritarian control and should never be confused with any type of liberation.

Among other things, the ACLU, when describing the School to Prison Pipeline, attributes the exclusive nature of the standardized test from the No Child Left Behind Act as contributing to the delinquency and oppression of minority races.

It says:

"There is no evidence that zero-tolerance policies make schools safer or improve stu¬dent behavior.  On the contrary, research suggests that the overuse of suspensions and expulsions may actually increase the likelihood of later criminal misconduct." (2)

AND:

• Growing numbers of school districts employ full-time police officers, or “school resource officers,” to patrol middle and high school hallways.  With little or no training in working with youth, these offi¬cers approach youth as they would adult “perps” on the street,   rather than children at school.

• Children are far more likely to be arrested at school than they were a generation ago. The vast majority of these arrests are for non-violent offenses such as “disruptive conduct” or “disturbance of the peace.”(3)

• Children as young as five years old are being led out of classrooms in handcuffs for acting out or throwing temper tantrums. Students have been arrested for throwing an eraser at a teacher, breaking a pencil, and having rap lyrics in a locker.  These children do not belong in jail.

• The explosion of school-based arrests cannot be attributed to an increase in youth violence.  Between 1992 and 2002, school violence actually dropped by about half. Despite the fear generated by a handful of highly publicized school shootings, schools remain the safest places for young people.(4)
 
• Resources that could be put towards improving under-resourced schools are instead used for security.  School districts spend millions of dollars for police officers and security personnel,(5) despite the fact that these very schools are the ones lacking basic educational resources like textbooks and libraries.

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The reforms in modern education are responsible for encouraging the belief that so many children have behavioral problems and need to be given amphetamines. This has led to even more people being diagnosed with psychological disorders and viewing a large part of the population as the result of disease. This also tightens the gap between jails, addiction programs, mental institutions, and schools.

 

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Autism is a developmental disorder (a type of retardation). Academic and behavioral development can only be judged by a particular standard or scale. There are many dangers in using these scales too broadly or for too many value judgments. There is much historical information that shows how the standards of typical development and age appropriateness have been designed in the most harmful ways and led to atrocities.

Many of the advocates who are working to encourage the rights of autistics and many others that are committed to the rights of the mentally ill are too often claiming we are moving toward more civilized treatment for these groups through the political process. I see the problems associated with the Moral treatment advocacy of the 1800s continuing to repeat themselves. These problems are primarily due to disenfranchisement of the people most hurt by the programs promoted within public policy.

The Moral Treatment advocates were from a different class than those who were treated the worst and were primarily interested in reforming the people involved in the treatments rather than the system that designed and administered the treatments. Often what are considered to be treatments are merely research experiments being carried out on the most vulnerable part of the population that is the least likely to feel empowered enough to report abuse.

There is not much of anything that can be done to stop these abuses without restructuring of the values which created and has maintained the problem.

There is no system reform possible without an attitude reform and continuing to blame the victims whose powerlessness is encouraged by selfish thinking does nothing but causes more problems. The power structure supported by this is too old and too intricately woven into the fabric of our society to attempt changes in the traditional ways which have always been shown to fail.

We need to start encouraging advocacy that accepts the views of autistics and mental health consumers rather than continuing with the restrictions of age appropriateness, IQ test based on eugenic goals, and arbitrary labels of high and low functioning. If as soon as someone appears competent and articulate enough to express themselves competently, they are then seen as lacking in credibility and in understanding the critical problems that others are facing, we will all continue to face the same traditional mistreatment, and the worst abuse will continue to go unreported.

We can't keep promoting an oppressive system that labels people in order to exclude them. It hurts everyone when anyone is taught us to distrust in their own ability and worth so that they won't think critically and therefor be a part of their own liberation. We can't promote or even condone these practices and at the same time claim we are part of the solution.

The Lovaas Method used for the Far-gone Mental Cripples

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Toward the end of World War II, it became increasingly important to both the United States and Britain to attain the sophisticated weaponry being used by Germany. This weaponry ranged from planes and tanks to mind control. Nazi doctors were brought to the United States after the war to aid in the mind control research known as projects Bluebird (later called Artichoke) and Paperclip. The results of these studies are now being used widely on US citizens considered to have behavioral disorders.

The research into how political enemies could be manipulated has also been used by many governments throughout history to brainwash their own citizens into compliance and/or servitude. Rather than the term warfare for this type of modification, it is now referred to using the more acceptable term; behavioral therapy.

In order to encourage people to forget the abuses which have been reported of a therapist certified in Applied Behavioral Analysis, and to promote the goal of making these "therapies" more widely available, the terms punishment and rewards have been modified for broader social acceptance. What has replaced these are the terms aversives and reinforcement. In like manner, the new more acceptable method of Applied Behavioral Analysis which is designed to be used on an increasingly larger number of people is known as Positive Behavioral Support.

In a brief history of Applied Behavioral Analysis, it says:

"In 1913, John Watson identified observable behavior as the proper subject matter for psychology and stated that all behavior is controlled by environmental events. This was where Watson laid out the stimulus-response psychology that started the movement called behaviorism. B.F. Skinner later clarified the distinction between Ivan Pavlov's respondent conditioning (conditioned reflexes) and operant conditioning, in which the consequence of behavior controls the future occurrence of the behavior."

It also says:

"In the 60s, Ivar Lovaas began working on what would later be described in The ME Book, which laid out his teaching application of the science. He laid out a curriculum of programs, as well as a teaching sequence for them, and discussed how to teach them. The means by which these skills were taught was applied behavior analysis (the application of the science of behavior); the way in which the science was applied was Lovaas's. This is what most people discussing ABA mean: They mean that they teach using Lovaas's application of the science of behavior analysis."

The were many programs in the early 1960s designed to combat social ills. The National Institute of Health (NIH)provided a research grant to the University of California (UCLA) which allowed Lovaas to use the science of behavioral analysis as the source for his type of behavioral reform for autistics. This is typically known as where he began his work.

In Life magazine 1965

Screams,Slaps,and Love;

A surprising shocking treatment helps far-gone mental cripples

It says this in the article:

"Lovaas felt that by 1) holding any mentally crippled child accountable for his behavior and 2) forcing him to act normal, he can push the child toward normality.

It also says:

"Enraged bellows at the boy, then a sharp slap in the face. This deliberate, calculated harshness is part of an extraordinary new treatment for mentally crippled children. It is based on the old-fashioned idea that the way to bring up children is to reward them when they're good, punish them when they're bad. At the University of California in Los Angeles, a team of researchers is applying this precept to extreme cases. They have taken on three boys and a girl with a special form of schizophrenia called autism utterly withdrawn children whose minds are sealed against all human contact and whose uncontrolled madness had turned their homes into hells (p. 96). And, by alternating methods of shocking roughness with persistent and loving attention, the researchers have broken through the first barriers"

 

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The harmful application of this science is based on all the false assumptions in this paragraph from the article. The methods described here are strikingly similar to the behavioral modification treatments used for prisoners of war.

In order to have the public accept such treatments being used on humans it is essential that the public believes that the alternative to the treatment is worse than the treatment itself. By describing autistics as  "utterly withdrawn children whose minds are sealed against all human contact, and whose uncontrolled madness had turned their homes into hells" people are likely to derive from this that their behavior indicates the lack of empathy. In this way, the article is promoting the therapy.

It's important to remember that racism was behind the original goals of psychiatry and that blacks were described as having the heritage of African savages. This promoted the idea that they were only partially (less evolved) humans. It supported the propaganda used by social engineers during the time when the United States was being established as a nation. When people are seen as lacking empathy the public is more willing to accept harsher behavioral management techniques.
 
The way behaviorism is often described claims that free will does not exist, and that behavior is often wrongly assumed to be evil. Due to the prestige and authority invested in the "therapist" and the terrible ugly presumptions made of the recipients of this therapy, the therapist is provided with a weapon by which they can address the negative emotions resulting from their own shame through targeting aggression toward a vulnerable other party. This expression of emotion related to shame is the root of lots of abusive behavior.

Psychology has always been used for social design, and it always defines typical behavior in a way that is insulting and demeaning to most forms of diversity expressed in society.

Allowing this supposed behavioral therapy to be widely used and even to be government-sponsored is the furthermost thing from progress I can imagine. It reinforces the bigoted attitudes and therefore, the emotions that lead to the worst crimes of abuse within our culture.

In this post-9/11 era, many freedoms are purposely being stripped of US citizens based on the threat of internal and external enemies. As this relates to internal enemies, one of the fastest growing populations within the United States is the group diagnosed with mental and developmental disorders.

The objective of restricting freedoms is furthered by increasing the number of diagnoses of mental disorders. This is then capitalized on by the pharmaceutical industry. It ultimately renders this population of socially inadequate people more physically and mentally vulnerable to social designs often with the aid of debilitating drugs. Traditionally social designers claim to be working for the collective while attacking the weak and encouraging weakness.

Psychological warfare is the biggest threat we have. The promotion of fear and inadequacy should always be guarded against. We should do all we can to prevent any group of people who are labeled in any way to be conditioned in a way that makes them more vulnerable.

The claim of autistics being "far gone mental cripples" is very similar to the terms used by eugenic organizations. The term feebleminded seems very similar. The weakness was not described by these organizations so that therapies could be developed to make them stronger. Instead the terms were used to promote the idea that these people should be eliminated so that the so-called stronger and fitter population could survive. The therapies which are now used on the behaviorally disordered are based on the same attitudes and therefor can also be used for the same objective.


speaking of Naomi Wolf ,it says here:

"In The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,  Wolf takes a historical look at the rise of Fascism, outlining the 10 steps necessary for a Fascistic group (or government) to destroy the democratic character of a nation-state and subvert the social/political liberty previously exercised by its citizens"

of the 10 written, the first is:

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.

The treatments for the mentally ill and developmentally disordered have always been based on the claim that this group was violent and that the valued public needed to be protected from them. These treatments have changed very little, and the recipients continue to have no voice in changing the laws, which are designed to prevent their empowerment. Too often this is not a factor in the decisions about the compromises people believe we must make in the political arena. Without a radical movement that changes the mainstream attitude, these compromises are extremely detrimental to our future.

Wikipedia says this of Psychological warfare

Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior.

The U.S. Department of Defense defines psychological warfare as:

    "The planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of national objectives."

Powerful influential groups interested in population control believe that only 20% of the worlds population is worthy of life. People with such agendas never use very strict rules for who is deserving so any group which believes they are secure is involved with the deception.


Behavioral therapy sets standards of what is considered normal and sophisticated based on arbitrary notions, which have traditionally been supported by a false sense of pride. This directly influences laws, which were made and enforced pursuant to bigotry.

Therapy claiming to normalize behavior can never be liberating. Rather than depending on manipulative methods of control we need to learn to trust in our own decisions and encourage that trust within everyone else.

Is Autonomous Thinking Threatening or Liberating?

People who are inclined to think in alternative ways challenge the standardized tests (and the commercial interest that created them) to be more accepting of diversity. These social challenges too often negatively affect us individually in our personal relationships. We feel the burden of society's need to exclude us in order to preserve their false sense of pride even more intensely on a personal level, and it affects how we relate to our immediate environment. However, targeting the broader unfair social designs is where our efforts will affect the most needed change. This solidifies our efforts and discourages bickering (which encourages harmony) in personal relationships.

People involved in designing social control often base their self worth on their social status and only see that developing from the popularity of their ideas.It's a fragile basis for self-esteem and the rest of us (the "othered" part of the population) would do well not to follow their example or trust their projected view of us.

Solidarity comes from an agreement but the agreement is weak and fragile if it hasn't been tested and explored. That exploration requires trust and courage.

Once people are aware of how we are encouraging our own oppression, we can work boldly and compassionately as a solidified team against the nature of oppression which we feel in many daily interactions. Once we face the destructive force with courage we will feel empowered to combat it.

Neurological difference presents a threat to both people who are pathologically inclined to need personal control as well as those who are involved in designing control-based, normalizing behavioral systems that will ultimately support a larger political goal.

The ultimate goal of incarceration for unfounded allegations, the increasing focus on "needing" to use physical restraints, the broadening of the diagnostic statistical manual (DSM), and the overwhelming increase in medicating younger and more children, is based on the idea that people need to be controlled because they can't be trusted.

The United States has always encouraged the overly strict style of thinking, which create division and work to promote government oppression of the public it claims to serve. The evidence for this is shown by black versus white thinking that supports racial discrimination, being guilty due to being competent enough to recognize our crime versus those who are ignorant of their sin due to neurological defect and therefore innocent, and the intelligent versus unintelligent (educated versus non-educated) with regards to functioning labels. This is also shown by the way the term nationalism is promoted in a way which confuses it with patriotism. The two terms mean very different things.

At the core of these anti-diversity social designs are the fear of losing control and the need to transfer that fear back to the public by teaching them not to trust each other.

A functioning label is a political tool and nothing more. It's important to remember the few who are making the biggest decisions about how our government is run (and are using the mainstream media to promote their designs) only believe that a very few people are fit and therefore, worthy of respect and consideration.

Dividing the rest into categories promotes identity politics and some to have a sense of superiority due to being normal and only expressing views that are average. This leads everyone in thinking that anyone who presents as struggling for justice must be seeking dominance over others or attempting to position themselves as a leader. Anything that can be used to discourage autonomy will be.

This is a very effective tool for discouraging new ideas and preserving the ruling class of the minority elite. This doesn't serve to provide the majority with protecting rights, liberties, and the pursuit of justice.

Most people are aware of oppression by their government and how it affects so much of their life, and they feel powerless to affect change. Their suppressed emotions over this too often creates distrust, which gets directed toward their family and friends. This creates a division and encourages the feeling of powerlessness for everyone involved.

Family and friends must be unburdened from the fear taught by our government and the mainstream media. We must empower ourselves and those around us by learning to discuss ideas and opinions in healthy ways. We need to trust that this will strengthen and maintain our relationships rather than dividing us and making us even more vulnerable to the unfair yet unified control.

Diversity can mean an opportunity to examine the uniqueness of the human race and the infinite possibilities that provides, or it can represent more competition to what the normals and their leadership claim to deserve (based on scarcity myth). Governmental leadership doesn't need to be the deciders of our worth. We can reject their evaluations and promote an expanded set of values that will be undeniable to everyone. The only thing that separates a weed from a flower is our ability to find its value.

We can't fight for neurodiversity by using the political strategies which are taught us by the mainstream media. Fostering trust is not their goal. We won't overcome injustice, unless we are encouraging openness and honesty from all the vulnerable parts of the population. We won't establish trusting relationships with other oppressed people by using the mainstream mindset that has created our divisions in the first place. Basically, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."