How to Disappear Completely

This project examines how Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) sought to reduce the visibility of autistic difference by teaching children to look, speak, move and respond according to accepted norms.

It draws on archival photographs, instructions and measurement systems from ABA manuals to reveal their mechanisms of observation and behavioural correction. Interventions conceal the children depicted and restrict the viewer’s access to their images. They are a belated gesture of refusal towards the gaze.

The work asks what disappears when behaviour is normalised: difference, autonomy or the right to decide how one is perceived.