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Lydia Brown
Melrose, MA
I am an Autistic person. I intern for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and attend Georgetown University. I blog at http://autistichoya.blogspot.com.
For questions, comments, or criticisms of the petition for Chris Baker, I can be reached at lydia.brown@autismeducationproject.org. If you're writing to offer criticism, please be kind and do me two favors: read both the "about" and "letter" tabs in their entirety before hitting the "send" button, and remember that I'm a person on the other side of the computer after hitting the "send" button (i.e. treat me with respect in your criticism.)
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Lydia commented on the petition |Prejudice on the basis of disability (ableism) is not a legitimate form of speech, much like racism and sexism.
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Lydia commented on the petition |I am Autistic, and this is abuse and wrong. I have testified against the JRC at two hearings held last summer in Massachusetts, and sitting there listening to them defend their use of torture was sickening.
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Lydia commented on the petition |I am Autistic and an advocate for other Autistic people. Blade does NOT belong in the adult prison system. If he has been legally convicted of a crime, then he should be receiving a sentence that fits both the crime AND the offender. Blade is Autistic, and that means he has a disability that by law, Indiana is required to accommodate and serve. Because he is in the custody of the Indiana government, they have not merely a moral but a legal obligation to protect him. That is what custody means; it is why the same word is used to refer to who is responsible for children in a divorce. What is happening to him now is nothing less than abuse and torture, and that is unconscionable, particularly as Blade belongs to a segment of the population that is especially vulnerable to abuse.
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Abuse and torture in the name of treatment are the worst types of abuse and torture. There is no excuse that can justify what these people did to Andre.
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