I mean as someone who works in real life disability support the answer is: probably they don’t and they just made something up
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
There’s a lot in the way of arbitrarily establishing narratives about people’s desires and wants and not always a lot in the way of trying to actually discern them
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Not long after I first started this job someone who was at the time the the like, communications director or whatever the title was gave a lecture in a training about the different tools she used and one of them was Facilitated Communication. If you don’t know the term google it
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Yeah that's a whole horror show Wasn't there a wave of facilitators claiming their patients had used FC to consent to sex with them
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God I didn’t know about that but I do know that there was a wave of kids separated from their families based on FC testimony about child abuse.
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Ah yeah the one really big shocking story that destroyed the reputation of FC as a field was Anna Stubblefield in 2015 Rutgers professor found guilty of sexually assaulting a non-speaking man with cerebral palsy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
The fucked up thing about it is it's a delusion on the part of the facilitator Like it absolutely fits the legal definition of premeditated sexual assault, and yet I do believe that she believed all the bullshit about the patient confessing his love to her and wanting to marry
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
And that she herself "fell in love" with this imagined personality projected onto him that mysteriously turned out to be her dream guy (as happened so often with facilitators in "relationships" with subjects) It's very depressing to think about
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
It would make a really dark metaphor for human relationships in general if it weren't, you know, a specific thing that literally happened
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
The whole reason people tell the story of Zhuangzi and the birds is this very galaxy brain thing philosophers get into "I can never prove empathy or communication exists at all, that I'm not just imagining I know what people mean when they speak or laugh or cry"
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Which, you know, is a worthy deep thought But there's degrees to this shit Like obviously Zhuangzi was just being an asshole and FC practitioners are fucking criminals
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