https://anticapitalistresistance.org/the-empire-of-normality/

Many people in r/teaching and r/MusicEd end up being a bunch of ableists and I want to know why? I wanted to be a music teacher to help Autistic and other special ed kids like myself enjoy music making and learning new things. Yet over time I was tokenized, harassed, and discriminated against because of who I am which is an Autistic woman who plays the tuba. So many of you do not respect the accommodations of many children, something that in Michigan you could lose your job over. Yet you boast about your multiple degrees when you treat special ed children with low dignity and autonomy. When will you teachers and educators realize that it's not the degrees on your wall and how many awards you have, but how you treat and respect your students for who they are and all the wonderful things they can be? Testing and IQ have always leaned towards Eugenics and Ableist Ideals from the very beginning.

Do you want your students to respect you? Make learning engaging and fun, join a union, answer questions that need to be answered, no question is a stupid question, ban ABA not phones and accommodations, and learn from people like Heather Shumaker, and Alife Kohn, and join the IWW. I know there are many challenges teachers and educators face, yet you should not be blaming students when the real problem is the challenges your students face all the time like bullying, grooming, abuse, and discrimination.

https://heathershumaker.com/book/its-ok-not-to-share/

https://www.alfiekohn.org/

https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/students-with-disabilities/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/27/anxious-generation-jonathan-haidt

https://angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/no-its-not-your-autism-its-aba

https://www.iww.org/

https://ollibean.org/intelligence-is-an-ableist-concept/

https://neuroclastic.com/aba-horror-stories-are-far-too-common/

Anyone else worried about being infantilized by NTs (especially those who aren't leftists) when it comes to activism and organizing? I have constant anxiety over my family and non-organizing friends acting like I'm too naive or confused to understand politics and that I got radicalized by some nefarious outside influence, and ignoring the fact that I'm a human being capable of autonomy.

I'm also trans so I've been infantilized over that too, and ig I have bad memories from that.