Rather than teaching adaptive functioning skills to change dangerous behaviors, aversive electric shock causes only great suffering, pain and trauma. At best, the shocks temporarily repress behaviors by using fear to control residents. That is not treatment. That is torture, as Disability Rights International argued in its damning investigative report on Rotenberg’s practices.
Lydia Brown, “It’s illegal to torture prisoners and animals, but not disabled people”
yes, electric shock “treatment” is used against autistic people. this article by the fantastic Lydia Brown is important but graphically describes torture and abuse by medical practitioners against autistic people. consider this a content warning.
(via disabilityhistory)
The Doctor Is Out 