[taurath]

As someone who was a child with autism whose parents followed these guidelines, fuck you. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

It wasn’t just the hitting. It was the threat of being hit for anything. It was the contradictory internal rules I had to come up with to try to avoid being hit. It’s the internalization that I was bad that I carried for decades of my life. It’s when it slipped, and they started using it because it was the only thing that worked, because they didn’t know how to handle their own emotions let along a child’s. Don’t recommend parents hit their kids. Don’t make it okay. Full stop. You don’t know who the parents are.

Kids don’t know that you only use hitting in certain circumstances, even if you tell them.

[OccamsMirror]

How anyone can think that the best way to teach children not to hit is to hit them is wild.