A modern reminder that abusive control can still be defended as treatment.
This is not ancient history. It is a warning from the present.
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts has been heavily criticised for using electric shock devices as behavioural control on disabled and autistic people.
Human rights advocates have described the practice as abusive and degrading.
This belongs in the timeline because it proves the dangerous logic has not disappeared.
When behaviour is treated as the only problem, the person underneath can be ignored. Pain can be reframed as intervention. Control can be called treatment.
Awareverse must be clear: behaviour is communication, distress has context, and support must never become torture with professional wording.
Seeing the human changes everything.