"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."
-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy
Isn't this nearly verbatim from an old tumblr post? Or is that the girl being quoted?
Yes, that tumblr is gone now. Someone linked to a quote of it in tumblr in the replies on mastodon