Friends, It Is Time for Us to Claim Our Rights!

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Friends in Asperger's syndrome, the whole of the autistic spectrum, and other neuro-diverse conditions,

We have waited in the shadows for too long! The time has come for us to take what is ours and build a world that is better for us, better for all. We want only equal opportunity to enhance our lives, pursue our interests, and enjoy the companionship of others—without the prejudice and the calcification of facile normality. We hereby claim our human rights!

My friends, stifling convention is the enemy! We recognize in it the tool of NeuroTypical coercion and discrimination. We desire that people see the vivid splendor beyond their black-and-white reception. We demand that people no longer see the symptoms of our conditions as oddity but as sources of originality and glorious invention!

Today we consider founded a party to represent our common interests, a beacon for global change! Today we join our strength as the Party for Asperger's and Pan-Autistic Rights and Equality (PAPARE). We synthesize the best of the movements and ideas that have come before us and are neither of the left nor the right. We hold these truths:

• Nuancism has superceded egalitarianism as an ideal to strive for. We believe everyone has a different pattern of strengths and weaknesses, and it befits us all to live in a society where everyone's talents are maximized and weaknesses buffered against. All personal misery and social strife comes friom the lack of nuancism in society.
• Conventionality is the source of NeuroTypicalist strife. Our differences make holding conventional attitudes, beliefs, and goals unlikely; but we do not feel this is sufficient cause for prejudice and fear. To overcome this, we must smash mass media and replace it with something better.
• NeuroTypicalism must be fought at an early age. Bigotry starts early, so we must educate children about fairness and respecting the differences of others.

Who of you is brave enough to join us?

I join. In fact, I practice already!

Woo! I'm excited! Great cause! Okay, setting your histrionic tone aside, any rejection of conventionality for its own sake is a step in the right direction. I'm not sure if such a party is necessary, though. Instead, I say just join a broader push for progress and tolerance.

Somehow I think a world run by aspies would be a scary thing.

Yeah, better to leave it in the capable hands of those of us who have OCD. Muhahaha! Don't worry, my pets! I will oppress you gently!!

Again, though, it would be best to work for the sponsorship of existing programs targeted at working against the sorts of injustices many of us face.

I've often thought the World would be a better place if I ran it, although I wouldn't want to have to live in it.

So, just to get this straight, you want the entire world to mold to your perception of what it should be? Social interaction should be cut out because it makes aspies uncomfortable, jobs should be redone, even if it means less effectivness, in order to suit you? Media, TV, radio disapear because you don't like it?

I can stand by teaching children tolerance, I can stand by offering more job opportunities that can be done in a private setting. I can stand by educating the masses to the fact that AS isn't a disability and shouldn't be treated as one. Those are equal rights, and you deserve them. But, asking everyone to bend to suit you is exactly what you're complaining about, yet you want to do it to us?

"We hereby claim our human rights!"

This is America. You have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Oh, Goche, whoa, there. You're a bit off. AS isn't in itself a disability, but there are oddities in our neurology which may or may not be debilitative, depending upon their severity and how they manifest themselves.

So you want me to continue being myself?

I have been working on being more tolerent and understanding, should I quit?

No, it isn't. It's Wrong Planet. Plenty of us are from the UK, and I'm sure there's at least one Asian kicking around on here.

That describes most of the world outside the US, also. Our dollar is #3 now, by the way. It's all your fault.

The nation one lives in neither guarantees nor denies the freedoms and rights that should rightfully be denied to no one. They must be fought for, wherever one may reside.

Last edited by Griff on 27 Oct 2007, 2:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Isn't that what I said? Educating the masses to it not being a disability? I don't mind that at all, aspies can be a very productive part of society capable of great things and people need to understand that. However, I also think that there are things that AS in itself prevents you from doing if you don't work on it. For example, I don't see an aspie working as, say, a chief unless they work at controlling their own fears. That kind of job demands working in a loud enviroment, close to a lot of people, with a lot of sensory dsetails that would drive a lot of people with AS up the wall. If you can handle it, go ahead, if you can't, I'm sorry but maybe you should try something else.

Well, it would also be beneficial to point out that there are a number of things that the "typical" person cannot do, ideas that the "typical" mind cannot fathom. This is the value of neurodiversity. One type of mind, one type of person, cannot hope to run the world alone. There are things that we can learn how to do that are simply not within the capabilities of others.

To the OP:

In the US, it actually might be feasible to sort out an Aspie lobby of some kind. Or a lobby for those who are affected by a broad range of neurological peculiarities and often wrongly discriminated against for them.

here, here! i join the party!

PREPARE for a better world! aspies unite!

Griff wrote:

"Spaceplayer wrote:
This is America.
No, it isn't. It's Wrong Planet. Plenty of us are from the UK, and I'm sure there's at least one Asian kicking around on here. "

Fair enough.

Griff:
"Quote:
You have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That describes most of the world outside the US, also."

Our dollar is #3 now, by the way. It's all your fault. "

MY fault? I'll get right on that.

Griff:
"The nation one lives in neither guarantees nor denies the freedoms and rights that should rightfully be denied to no one. "
In America, you're guaranteed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Meaning, the government protects you from compulsion and physical attacks. Life and liberty. The pursuit of happiness does not mean you will be provided with happiness. You have to fight for that. No one is obligated to provide an adult with food, shelter, clothing, employment, etc. Those must be pursued by the individual without forcing others to provide. Free trade, whether through money or services provides a peaceful means for relations. You can either deal with others by trade or by force.

Bunch of hippies, the whole lot of you!