The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts, is subjecting autistic and otherwise disabled people to painful skin shocks as behavior modification "therapy."⁠ ⁠ Not to be confused with therapeutic procedures like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the use of the graduated electronic decelerator (GED) is strictly used as a painful punishment to deliver extremely painful shocks to disabled people.⁠ ⁠ A TASER is used as an emergency measure to temporarily incapacitate someone. The curren
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The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts, is subjecting autistic and otherwise disabled people to painful skin shocks as behavior modification "therapy."⁠ ⁠ Not to be confused with therapeutic procedures like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the use of the graduated electronic decelerator (GED) is strictly used as a painful punishment to deliver extremely painful shocks to disabled people.⁠ ⁠ A TASER is used as an emergency measure to temporarily incapacitate someone. The curren
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BREAKING: Jennifer Msumba, amazing author, song writer, singer, and autistic survivor of electroshock torture at Judge Rotenberg Center is having her comments about her lived experience deleted by a board member of Judge Rotenberg Center. Autistic people and our allies are not going to be silenced anymore. #JRCSueMeToo #StopTheShock #ABAI2022 | NeuroClastic
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