30/10/2026
Instead of ghosts there are medical model diagnostic assessments that don’t capture a person’s strengths.
Instead of skeletons there are goals being set that are not meaningful to the person.
Instead of zombies there is compliance based therapy that does not honour a person’s needs and right to autonomy.
Instead of witches there are labels like Oppositional Defiant Disorder being used without understanding that it’s a trauma response & change will happen when the people around the child change what they are doing.
Instead of werewolves there are stereotypical ideas about autism that cause delays in a person accessing their identity.
Instead of vampires there is therapy that only focuses on building very specific skills, rather than developing self-advocacy as the most important ‘skill.’
Instead of spiders there are professionals and families trying to learn about autism from non-autistic ‘experts.’
Instead of Frankenstein it’s a room of professionals who are not screening for symptoms of Dysfunctional Breathing and Sleep Disordered Breathing.
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