Torture of autistics at the Judge Rothenberg Center

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[quote="Adolf"]My spiritual twin Adolf wasn't a big fan of Rothenberg paedagogics.[/quote]
What is [i]wrong[/i] with you?

Besides ASD, that is.

You support Hitler? He slaughtered millions of innocents because of their ethnicity. You agree with that?

When I read the OP I had a hard time believing this. I thought maybe it was exaggerated. Then I researched. And my apology for having any doubt against the OP---this place is for real. That is disgusting. I thought this type of treatment had disappeared with the psychiatric hospital treatments up into the 1950's and possibly 1960's in America.

The animals at my local humane society are treated better this. I'm surprised the state puts up with this.

This has been ruled perfectly legal, that's where the name comes from. Judge Rotenberg ruled that "adversive" therapy was allowed. They were once ruled abusive but the response was basically not to do anything. It was the legal equivalent of a talking to. Glider, I don't blame you. When I first heard about it I thought it sounded too extreme for reality. Apparently it isn't. I blame the "autistic community's" (which, as we all know, seems to exclude actual autistics other than the extremely low functioning, stereotypical ones) propaganda that paints autistics as subhuman monsters who bring misery to families and must be cured at all costs.

i think that any therapy should be tested on a mentaly sane person first. if a mentaly sain person doesnt become cripled under the amount of rules and regulations it might actualy be worth trying on people that are in some way disabled. that being said i think most ways to change how people act should be only used when these people are a great danger to their suroundings (purposly excluding thereselfs). this reminds me a lot of a book one flew over the cookooks nest by ken kensly. ow and about hex. cant remember who wrote that one. it is a terible place i think there should be some way to protest against it although i think just demolishing it after taking the "students" out would be better.

i think that any therapy should be tested on a mentaly sane person first. if a mentaly sain person doesnt become cripled under the amount of rules and regulations it might actualy be worth trying on people that are in some way disabled. that being said i think most ways to change how people act should be only used when these people are a great danger to their suroundings (purposly excluding thereselfs). this reminds me a lot of a book one flew over the cookooks nest by ken kensly. ow and about hex. cant remember who wrote that one. it is a terible place i think there should be some way to protest against it although i think just demolishing it after taking the "students" out would be better.

This is the western world. 21st century. Will everyday people even care about this?

Where is this world going...?

Day Walker, I have to say that such a test would be horrible and cruel. We can't in good conscience do something like that to someone else. However, I would like a test to be used on the creator of the method. If they know their methods will be used on them they will be pushed to be humane and kind to people who they are treating.

Their website is made in Frontpage, by the way - or it was, last time I checked. Probably couldn't afford professional coding...

If the government won't shut it down, then we don't simply need direct action; we need a revolution against a government that would allow such a thing to exist.

Direct action is good, but I'm not sure how we would do it now that we announced it on a public website. >=( Regarding Adolph, the guy is just a troll. Ignore him and he will give up. And Hitler was definitely not autistic. He was capable of manipulating an entire nation while the average aspie can't manipulate a person. He was a psychopath and he would have slaughtered us in the camps.

What we must do before any action is considered is to research this school to see exactly what is going on.

Is there anyone who has actually researched much on this school so that we can weigh facts from assumptions? I have been giving a lot of thought to this situation, but feel a bit helpless because I would love to hear from someone who has had firsthand experience with this school. Perhaps some of you know of such a person.