Ukrainian Policymaker (Dec 2021)
The Case of Carly Fleischmann, Her Speech Therapists, and the Media: Factitious Heroism by Proxy, Factitious Heroism, Foile à Plusieurs, and the Global Impact Thereof
Abstract
The global impact of the public presentations of the profoundly autistic woman Carly Fleischmann has been substantial. In this article, I reveal the brilliant communicative fraud that Carly’s two speechtherapists engaged in with her between 2008-2018 on an array of major television programs, and which has not been observed by anyone else. The speech-therapists have deceived innumerable millions of people worldwide that Carly has a normal if not advanced neurology and mind, and that all profoundly autistic persons may as well. They devised a variation of the treatment method and educational method that is referred to as Facilitated Communication. By my having revealed the intricacy of the communicative fraud that they engaged in with Carly, there may be a global response via cooperation between persons of an array of different countries that results in treatment methods and educational methods for autistic persons being assessed more carefully by scientists, physicians, journalists, autism organization leaders, and others; and the global response may include that the ways that autistic persons are conceived of may be proceeded with more carefully. I do not intend for my observational work, and ensuing conceptual work, to demonstrate to others that the particular fraud that Carly’s speech-therapists engaged in should be monitored for, but rather that all claims of, and demonstrations of, treatment methods and educational methods for autism be acutely visually and auditorily observed, such that the innumerable kinds of fraud that may be occurring are observed. The assessment of treatment methods and educational methods for autism with preexisting methodologies will likely result, as it did of Carly and her speech-therapists, in highly surreptitious fraud being overlooked, and perpetuated; and this entails the proliferation of mass deception.
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