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Autistic’s Bill of Rights

1) Autistics have a right to be taken seriously and for their concerns to be listened to. The fact that we are autistic doesn’t mean that we’re lying or that our concerns are less valid than anyone else’s.
2) Autistics have the right not to be touched without fair warning and our approval. Touch is a very difficult thing for us and can be extremely frightening at times. Furthermore attempting to touch anyone after being told not to is assault, and self-defense is a guaranteed human right.
3) Autistics have the right not to be discriminated against for being autistic. Expecting us to behave as neurotypicals is not acceptable and must cease.
4) Autistics have the right to be autistic. If a treatment to reverse or “cure” autism is ever invented it must never be administered without informed consent, and there must be no penalty, legal or otherwise, for refusing.
5) Autistics have the right not to be guinea pigs for unethical quacks. The laws on human testing apply fully to us and subjecting us to leuprolide, gold salts, and high-pressure oxygen must cease immediately.
6) Autistics have the right to exist. All funding for research into developing a pre-natal test for autism must be halted and all research produced under government funding destroyed completely. Genocide by any other name is still genocide.
7) Autism is not worse than death and we are not better off dead. For supposedly-respectable “autism advocates” to say otherwise is unacceptable preaching of hatred and they must be ostracized for doing so.
Autistic lives are no less valuable than neurotypical ones. Anyone who murders or attempts to murder an autistic, including the parents themselves, must be punished to the full extent of the law not excluding the death penalty where it is an option. They are additionally deserving of no mercy or pity from the community.
9) Autistics have the right to an education. This includes a harassment-free environment and the understanding that we do not learn the same way as neurotypicals.
10) Autistics have a right to equal opportunity. While there are some jobs where we will probably never be able to do well, there are many where we would be successful however we are wrongly discriminated against because of autism.

You should keep adding to this. Best wishes http://whitterer-autism.blogspot.com

My thought when reading that is "Well, of course!". That's just mostly basic human rights, isn't it?
Or are autists not considered human where you're at?

But as always, as with all rights, how far are you willing to go to enforce them?
They don't just exist because of being written down.
When push comes to shove, you've got to be ready to fight for them.
I don't think the people who invented war, bullying and dishonesty would care otherwise.

Of course ion but before we can fight for our rights we have to define what they are.

I agree with Sam

Yep, great idea.

I'd print this out for my children, but only one of them can read. Are you going to add some more? I could have a few suggestions myself!
Cheers
http://whitterer-autism.blogspot.com

Oh no, extracting the michael at each and every opportunity should be a high priority = if we lose our sense of humour then we'd all be worse off!

For the time being I think my boys 'bill of rights' might be a little too 'rarified' to be applicable to the general autistic population, such as

'chalk should be banned, who was the idiot that put it on general release in the first place!'

or alternatively

'down with shoes! the instruments of torture!'

But I suspect that there are some basic underlying principles that are generally applicable.

Best wishes
http://whitterer-autism.blogspot.com

Translation required [requested?] and 'OP' would refer too.?

As for specifics - just take your five senses and expand [or contract] for each.

Would you want to include those who 'suffer' from speech delays? Those would stumble with word retrieval, stuttering over on word whilst you count to 15 on a good day, or 25 on a bad day [not to ignore counting the 'ands' inbetween] or would that be stretching people's patience too far?

Cheers
http://whitterer-autism.blogspot.com

I'd actually like to work towards a consensus and I consider this no longer my project but our collective project so there is no need for you to seek my approval for new amendments.

Awesome idea!