cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17147012

"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."

-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy

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  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Die mad, I guess. Probably avoid having kids in the meantime though - I can’t imagine they’d deserve you as a parent.

    • Icaria@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Die mad, I guess.

      Dude, I’m getting hitler comparisons and called a boot licker for inserting the only hint of healthy skepticism into the whole damned thread. Now I’m getting fuckin’ 'u mad’s straight outta 2008. Excuses, deflections, personal attacks; as the kids say, cope harder.

      (Oh and I’m not discounting the more sensible responses, it’s just there’s not a lot to say to personal anecdotes about some guy’s 12yo son.)

      • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        You’re making highly authoritarian, essentialist arguments - I can’t imagine why you’d be getting that kind of pushback.

        As you double down while getting downvoted to oblivion as everyone tells you how wrong you are, I’m sure you won’t be the…

        kid (that) comes up with bullshit rationalisation for why they’re right and everyone else is wrong once they get home.