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Re: Reply to Bonnie B., about honor
DIR By: forbitals
Date: August 2, 2019, 6:23 pm
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from above:
Shari Karney was able to get laws changed, and as she explained,
this is the reason why there are now $2 Billion in judgments
against the US Roman Catholic Church.
Julie Gregory is fighting to get prosecution for Muchausen's
perpetrators, and her book with medical records showing her own
saga is compelling.
I don't believe that either of these survivors has received
financial reparations, but no one would ever accuse either of
them of life without honor, as their aggressiveness in acting
against perpetrators is commendable.
But if someone takes a Mad Pride or Radical Neurodiversity
approach to abuses, how does that do anything to restore their
public honor?
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Re: Reply to Bonnie B., about honor
DIR By: forbitals
Date: August 5, 2019, 5:25 pm
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Denouncing Nick Walker and his Radical Neurodiversity Stuff
Yep!
So that is where I want to go. I want a theory which will give
a way of opposing Psychiatry and the drugging, and also the con
that is Psychotherapy. And I want to go after the nonsense
which is the Recovery Movement. To me they all seem to have the
same intent, to create an underclass, so that we don't need to
question the Self-Reliance Ethic in an advanced industrial and
information economy. We don't need the extra workers, but we
have the people, so what do we do with them?
So Foucault wrote the stuff about BioPower and BioPolitics in
the late 70's, a series of lectures.
Then people seem to see Alain Badiou as the successor to both
Foucault and to Deleuze and Guattari. He wrote The Subject in
1982. Might be a book which shows how to oppose BioPower and
BioPolitics.
And then Judith Butler at UC Berkeley, I think she has written
about ways to oppose BioPower and BioPolitics, and it is
difficult. Sounds like she sees it as something which cannot be
direct.
And Butler is a partner of Wendy Brown, one of our major
theorists of Neo-Liberalism, and the author of "Undoing the
Demos".
I think these are the things we should be looking at, not
debating with Psychotherapists and with people who want to add
street drugs into the mix of chemicals used to keep people
tranquilized.
And I also want to go after this ~Autism Asperger's Neurological
Difference~ sham.
As I know, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
includes a provision of protection from labeling.
I consider this very important, essential. And it is where I
break with all the Autism and Neurodiversity advocates, and even
with this Nick Walker and his Radical Neurodiversity.
People have Cognitive Liberty today. People can think anyway
they want.
Now if you say it, that is a different matter. Say the wrong
things, and especially to your psychotherapist, and you will
likely end up handcuffed to a table in a police interrogation
cell.
So I see this protection from labeling as far more important
that this idea of Cognitive Liberty. End the labeling and then
everybody is just who they are. Problem solved.
I read the stuff the Autism advocates write, and I can
understand and identify with much of it. But I interpret it
totally differently. I do not see there as being any objective
reality to Autism, Asperger's, or to this Neurological
Difference. I just see that we have a cruel world which uses
bullying to socialize, and that most people have little refuge
from this.
I also notice one thing though, though they do not say it, I see
in the writings of these self identifying autistics, that most
of the time things start to look better for them, once they no
longer live with their parents.
So Nick Walker pushes this idea of Radical Neurodivergence as
far as possible, so that it does not seem to mean anything.
But of these courses he has, he also says"
"The instructor must be autistic."
"The Instructor Must Be a Participant
in Autistic Culture, Community, and Resistance"
"At least 80% of the assigned readings should be by autistic
authors."
HTML http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/
So I see his work as being completely misguided. He is
propagating the myth of Autism, and he is trafficking in the
labels. I do not see any reason that the labels cannot just be
dumped immediately.
Sami Timimi says that with the label, people buy in to a
fantasy, "Now someone is going to really figure out what is
going on." And yes I see this, too, in the writings of these
self proclaimed autistics. But I see that the purpose it serves
for them has to do with the Self-Reliance Ethic, and with the
need to exonerate perpetrators.
I also notice something else, besides Nick Walker being involved
in this thing about giving MDMA to ~Autistics~ to alleviate
~social anxiety~, I see that this California Institute of
Integral Studies has lots of stuff about using street drugs,
~Psychedelics~, as an expansion of the psychiatric drugging
travesty.
I have looked over many years at their web site for various
reasons. I never saw any stuff like this. But today I have to
say that what this Nick Walker is doing, propagating the myth
that there is some neurological difference behind the popular
phenomenon of Autistic Identity, is just plain wrong and it
needs to be ended.
And then of CIIS, I now consider it suspect.
I feel that the protection from labeling and the ending of these
identities formed in a context of abuse, are far more important,
than worrying about how people think, or about what curious
mannerisms they might have.
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