"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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  • Lightdm@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Isn’t this nearly verbatim from an old tumblr post? Or is that the girl being quoted?

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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      8 months ago

      Yes, that tumblr is gone now. Someone linked to a quote of it in tumblr in the replies on mastodon