Is it better to leave them locked in a padded room or to let them kill themselves? Honest question...
false dichotomy. there are ways to help autistic people that do not involve leaving them "locked in a padded room"
Not in the people that are receiving this therapy... Its a last ditch effort after everything else has been tried. When the brain is undergoing catatonia, the kid doesnt even know they are hurting themselves. The brains electrical signals are messed up. These people are fixing them.
they're not being fixed. read the thing i linked up there ^
I read it. The author clearly lacks the prerequisite knowledge to know what she is talking about. She was not nor is she currently an expert on autism. She freely admits this in the blog. My wife was once a leader for a national autism advocacy group. She used some, not all of the techniques discussed in the article herself to make life livable for our son. He no longer hurts himself of others and talks when neurologists said he never would speak. The bigger trick now is getting him to stop. Some, most all of this stuff works as it is intended to. Sit down.
was it an actual autism advocacy group, or was it Autism Speaks? because they are famously bad ---