"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

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  • SuddenDownpour
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    8 months ago

    “If you don’t respect the privileges I think I ought to have in my position in the social hierarchy, I won’t respect the rights I might be willing to grant to someone in your position in the social hierarchy.”