Disgusted by the NACD

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I recently found their videos on youtube and at first I thought cool, he explains it well until he mentioned the autistic child being broken. I got increasingly angry to hear him say that 'if a behaviour looks weird then it is weird and needs to stop. I have just visited their website and I am really angry that they use the perspective of autism being a brain injury and that the children are brain injured. It says that all stimming should be stopped and that sensory play should be banned. Now I find stimming helps me to calm down or makes me happy, they compare stimming to a drug addiction and that because it produces endorphins it's a bad thing. I love sensory play, it calms me down and I love to explore my curiosity. Here are two articles I found that describe their viewpoint which I am disgusted with

http://nacd.org/journal/autismspectrum.php

http://nacd.org/journal/article3.php

I would like to know how you would feel if you were forced to stop stimming and all sensory play and that if anything you do looks weird to someone then you must be a broken, brain injured individual.

Forcing autistic people to suppress stimming is a form of physical torture. I know that it is for me.

Easy called ignoring the fools & leaving or telling them where to shove it.

Lets ban exercise and any other stuff that makes endorphins. They say it's like the body’s morphine receptor does not mean it is, as really the research is terrible when it comes to runners high.

& really if it is that good why do people moan for morphine.

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The link to their youtube channel is

http://www.youtube.com/user/NACDDOTORG

Here's the specific video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkKle0X ... re=related

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let them know what you think
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