If I could go back I would do OT or SLP and not get my masters in ABA. I did not realize that the field has so many eth ical issues since I am in a clinic that has teams with SLPs and OTs and feels fairly ethical.

Insurance has only been approving and paying for ABA since like 2010, someone correct me if I am wrong about the dates. So it just does not feel like a super established and settled thing. There is such a can cel culture surrounding the field right now I don't know if it well survive it. Who could disagree with an autistic person who says that this therapy ruined their life? We can't tell other people how to feel, what traum atizes them and what doesn't.

We don't talk about the neurological impacts, or origins of a behavior... just how to mani pulate behavior and I do think it can be wrong. What if we are teaching kids to to lerate something that makes them nau seous, gives them mig raines (some auditory sensi tivities have been documented as having this result)? It bothers me that this was not addressed in grad school.

I have been through a lot, life has been kicking me in the teeth for like the last decade and I just want a helping profession job that is a job. Not a job that has me wondering if I am ruin ing someones life because I am not approaching their situation with enough or the right information.

If you love it, if it is the hill you don't mind dying on, go for it. Other wise I would look at something else.