Thoughts on shocks and stimming.
Mar. 15th, 2023 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blimix(Content note: Torture, ABA, suicide (general).)
An experiment by Timothy Wilson found that many people (two-thirds of men and one-fourth of women; no mention of nonbinary folks) will self-administer unpleasant electric shocks rather than be deprived of stimulation for periods ranging from six to fifteen minutes.
Everybody stims. Apparently, almost half of all people find an absence of stimulation to be *more* torturous than an electric shock.
ABA therapy forces Autistic people to constantly torture themselves by not stimming. I wonder how high you'd have to up the voltage to reliably get someone to voluntarily choose the lack of stimming. No wonder ABA causes suicide.
An experiment by Timothy Wilson found that many people (two-thirds of men and one-fourth of women; no mention of nonbinary folks) will self-administer unpleasant electric shocks rather than be deprived of stimulation for periods ranging from six to fifteen minutes.
Everybody stims. Apparently, almost half of all people find an absence of stimulation to be *more* torturous than an electric shock.
ABA therapy forces Autistic people to constantly torture themselves by not stimming. I wonder how high you'd have to up the voltage to reliably get someone to voluntarily choose the lack of stimming. No wonder ABA causes suicide.
