You Don’t Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree: Integration

The question isn’t whether autistic people can adapt.

They already have.

Gary Douglas has said that "These people are the evolution of the species."

The question is why adaptation is always one-sided.

Teaching a fish to climb a tree doesn’t make the fish smarter. It makes the fish believe it is failing.

This series is not an argument against therapy, education, or support. It is an argument against wrongness as a starting point and false sense of normal that's simply not true for people with ADD, ADHD, OCD, and autism.

No modality—consciousness-based or otherwise—should promise:

• normalization

• cures

• better behavior

  
  

What can be offered with Access Consciousness® tools is:

• something different than the above

• less pressure

• more choice

• greater ease in being exactly who someone already is

  
  

Inspired by Would You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree? A Different Take on Kids with ADD, ADHD, OCD and Autism by Anne Maxwell, Gary Douglas, and Dr. Dain Heer, the invitation is simple and radical:

What if difference was never the problem?

Different is not broken. And it never was.

Are you ready to choose?

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