Fab guide by @autisticrealms.bsky.social to correct terminology here:

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Totally agree with you

What do you think about “Autism Levels 1, 2 and 3” (which we are being obliged to use in my workplace)? They don’t make sense, but I’m being told we HAVE to use this terminology or the HSE won’t accept our reports! (Me, I’m Level 42 Autistic, I can’t resist the jazz-funk. 😂)

I agree with all of the above, and experienced these barriers in a previous workplace, HOWEVER my manager was not interested in my descriptions of how I work best until I had a cert in my hand that said I was autistic. Even then she was awful and inflexible. And this in disability services!

I try to avoid conflating behaviourism and ABA or PBS. Behaviourism is a bigger and older subject. But of course I’m totally against ABA and PBS.

So I’d prefer to say “behaviourism: fascinating, and I can see how it took hold and where it’s useful. But PLEASE stop turning into a simplistic intervention program, that is NOT its place.”

But! One useful (I think) counterpoint to behaviourism is the idea of intersubjectivity. It’s the answer to the (very reasonable) question: “if not behaviourism, then what?”

Programs or intervention strategies which are rooted in behaviourism and can’t see beyond it are coercive, damaging and misinterpret human activities. Behaviourism itself though is just based on the idea that as we don’t have access to each others’ internal states we have to interpret what we see.