{"id":690,"date":"2007-12-21T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/12\/r-e-s-p-e-c-t\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T16:04:00","slug":"r-e-s-p-e-c-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/r-e-s-p-e-c-t\/","title":{"rendered":"R-E-S-P-E-C-T"},"content":{"rendered":"

All I’m askin’<\/span>
Is for a little respect in your group home, yeah<\/span>
In your group home<\/span>
–Aretha and me<\/span><\/p>\n

How do I get an online petition started to close down the Judge Rotenberg Center which I can then bring to my Governor. I can’t believe that the $%^& Boston Globe<\/span> has an editorial today<\/a> saying that “there is a role for aversive therapy if it is practiced with great restraint and respect.” Respect? <\/span>How does that work, exactly? “Oh, dear autistic student, with the ‘self-destructive and violent’ behavior: forgive me for what I am about to do to you in the name of teaching you how to be calm and peaceful.”<\/p>\n

That is because — with all due restraint and<\/span> respect<\/span> — The Globe<\/span> Editorial page has its head up its ass. Instead of condemning electric shock for being outmoded and barbaric, and calling for the JRC to be closed, The Globe<\/span> thinks it knows enough to merely recommend — in mealy-mouthed, spineless, we-don’t-know-what-it’s-like- we’re-not-the-experts-or-parents-dealing-with-these-monsters, and let’s-be-moderate-and-not-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater fashion — that the JRC be investigated and monitored in an “ongoing and intensive” manner. <\/p>\n

Sure, investigate. But close it down in the meantime. Do we really need another team of “experts” to tell us that this is wrong? <\/span><\/p>\n

I know what it’s like. Okay? I know. Read the book<\/a>. Read the blog. Ask me. Look at my hands, my scars. <\/p>\n

You don’t torture to teach a lesson. You just don’t. Case closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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