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Your Autistic Child is Probably Self-Harming Because You are Too and So is Everyone
A response to Eugenics — not what is needed in this world
No one is being kind who is saying we shouldn’t have to see autistic kids self-harming or that it’s bad and wrong that they do… without acknowledging that the mass populous is self-harming rather continuously. That is gaslighting.
I’ve often heard in my lifetime, “yea but physical violence is worse.”
No, it’s literally not. It’s the byproduct of other layers of abuse. Physical abuse is always a step or two behind emotional and psychological abuse.
And before you get your undies in a knot all full of defense and resistance to what I’m saying, I mostly believe that emotional and psychological abuse is completely accidental.
At least in its most prolific everyday forms, emotional and psychological abuse is just a byproduct of what’s become normal disassociated, disconnected, disembodied ways of being in our societies.
The Order of Things
It’s the esoteric law of the elements that states that water, emotional, is primary; air, psychological, is secondary; and earth, physical, is tertiary. After that comes fire, spiritual, and then ether, moral.
