Behavior Control

Psych meds should not be used to "control behavior", because it is the individual choice of a person to take meds or not to take meds. It is not the right of someone else, no matter how frustrating or even damaging the behavior is. A person has a basic right to their own brain, regardless of disability.

Not only this, but autism is not a "behavior disorder" -- autism does not consist of "behavior" to be "managed". Autistic behavior is as much for a reason as neurotypical behavior, and needs to be respected as such and not ignored, medicated, ridiculed, or put down as meaningless.

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