Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), an abusive and trauma-inducing form of conversion “therapy” aimed at forcing neurodivergent children into compliance with normative performance, seeks among other things to coerce its young victims into suppressing their capacity to stim. Perpetrators of ABA often focus a great deal—creepily and sometimes downright obsessively—on control of their victims’ hands, and on the suppression of hand-related stimming in particular. The use of the command “Quiet hands!” by ABA practitioners in this context has led to the adoption of the phrase “loud hands” as one of the
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