Is ABA Therapy Harmful? Autistic BCBA Speaks About ABA Controversy in video

I get this question all the time and today I am going to tackle this question from a different perspective. I recently interviewed Armando Bernal, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, and he was pretty significantly impaired. Now he’s an autistic adult who is also a board certified behavior analyst. And we talk all about the ABA controversy. Armando used to feel a little ashamed of autism, but then he made a shift and started disclosing it to people. “I wish I could go back and say, Hey, I had autism. But in the nineties and early two thousands, that wasn’t the case. That wasn’t something that you really wanted to disclose unless you wanted to be looked upon differently.”