I wish my parents made me do ABA Therapy

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My parents are the stereotypical liberal “everyone’s weird, man, there’s nothing wrong with you man, just smoke weed” people. So they did not involve me in ABA Therapy or force me to make eye contact.

Because of that, i’m stuck living in their house instead of living independently. I could have learned to act more NT, but now I have to play catchup.

I could have fit in with the NTs. Good job, socializing on the weekends, nice house, nice car, attractive girlfriend. Thanks for nothing, mom and dad.

My parents are also the reason I’m an uber-conservative and support traditional norms.

Not all autistics claim that ABA therapy had a positive impact on them

There is no way to know what otherwise would have occurred in the past conditional tense

ABA therapists are human and nobody is perfect.

However nobody lives in ideal circumstances and dwelling on the past won't help you

I keep telling myself, " it is better to fail at moving forward than succeed at moving backwards"

According to your post, it appears to me that, you are successfully moving backwards

ABA is horrible and basically torture. Why in the world would you want to be forced to be like NTs?? Are you being a troll??

People who have been though ABA have developed PTSD or become suicidal. They basically harshly punish you for things you can't help being or doing. ABA is evil and ableist. Would you punish a deaf child for using sign language by holding their hands onto a table or making them eat hot sauce? Then why would it be okay to do so because a kid is harmlessly stimming or not making eye contact? They just don't see autistic people as people, with basic human needs. They just see them as freaks or serial killers and other garbage.

I wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's until I was an adult in 2001. People put me in hellish situations that most NTs would have found stressful because they had no clue why I acted the way I did, and tried to force me to be act "normal", and all it did was turn me into a sociopath and hate the whole human race. Screw them and screw the planet Earth.

Not all NTs are that shallow.