cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17147012

"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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  • @[email protected]English
    18•3 months ago

    This is great, I think there could be a version that inverts the condition. Something like “if you won’t respect me as a person I can’t respect you as an authority”

    • @SuddenDownpourEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      Even so, that still sounds like a very low bar to respect someone as an authority.

    • hauiEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      You could actually print this somewhere.