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Lee the Expat 🇨🇦
@canamerican.bsky.social
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US expat from Arizona living in Ontario. 🇺🇸➡️🇨🇦

Believes all people are fundamentally similar and deserve respect, dignity, and opportunity.

Believes MAGA and fascists should go fuck themselves.

Autistic and proud of it.

Go Suns, Giants (MLB), Leafs.
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To be entirely fair that pretty much is how they treat autistic children.

This is how the creator of the most common autism treatment saw autistic people.
Quote from Ivar Lovaas, the creator of Applied Behavioral Analysis, a treatment used on autistic children. "You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense – they have hair, a nose and a mouth – but they are not people in the psychological sense. One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person.”
May 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I'm autistic. I'm also married, have a successful career, am a musician, and have done all the other things that everyone else does as a kid (like playing baseball).

Fuck this motherfucker, I can't even express how angry people like RFK make me by dehumanizing autistic people to this degree.
Quote from RFK Jr regarding autistic children: "those are kids who will never pay taxes. They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize we are doing this to our children."
April 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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My dog standing on the couch looking out the window
March 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
canamerican.bsky.social
A big reason why I moved to Canada is that the morning after the election, I didn't feel that my Colombian wife who moved to the US as a teenager would be safe in the US anymore.

Didn't think I would be validated so quickly.
Link to an X post from the US Border Patrol saying: Under @POTUS 's direction, CBP is taking decisive measures in response to Colombia: - Enhanced inspections of flights, private aircraft, & cargo to/from Colombia - Denying boarding to flagged visa holders - Enforcing the travel ban on Colombian officials w/ DOS coordination
January 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM