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3:18am June 3, 2014

patternsmaybe:

Like, it really *is* important to understand prompts and stuff in order to teach autistic folks, particularly autistic folks with disabling degrees of catatonia.

But there’s more to understanding prompts than figuring out which buttons to push.

You have to… use prompts in a way that supports someone in doing what *they* want to do.

And that’s really, really hard to get right.

I suspect that the RPM people get some of that right. But there are things that make me want to be very cautious.

Agreed.

And there are reasons that RPM is very important.  Like extremely important.

And at the same time, there are things about it that terrify me.  That if I were to become more severely catatonic, and I needed that method or other similar ones used on me, I would need to choose people very carefully.

I’ve already experienced things similar to facilitated communication, which also requires a very skilled person not to prompt the wrong things.  (Even FC proponents know about this.)