London Autistic Rights Movement future meetings

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A quick note on London Autistic Rights Movement future meetings - the dates for future meetings are now being changed to the third Thursday of each month rather than the last as before.

There will therefore be no meeting on the 26th and the next meeting will be on the 15 April.

Nothing About Autism Without Autistics and Autistic Organisations.

LARM is a civil rights movement, not a charity, entirely run and controlled by autistic people, unlike nearly all "autism charities", which tend to be run and controlled overwhelmingly by the parents of autistic children and adults.
We value a positive neurodiverse including autistic identity, including the many talents which are much more common within, sometimes even unique to, our neurodiverse including autistic communities.
We support full social inclusion and the removal of barriers to it, including by changing access and universal design standards to accommodate neurodiverse including autistic people. Likewise for communication and metabolic processing differences.
We therefore oppose all attempts to “treat” let alone “cure” autistics without following both the law and best practice (as defined by the global consensus of the neurodiverse including autistic civil rights movements, and not by anyone else).
Autism should be celebrated as part of neurodiversity, and broader human diversity, and its positive aspects harnessed. Positive aspects of autism must not be “eliminated”, the obvious implication of explicit calls by politicians and others for all autism to be eliminated. All autistic individuals must be able to freely decide whether and how they wish to have
part or all of their autism "treated" or "cured", and which parts. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOlpQNNVCI for an example of what we are against.

London Autistic Rights Movement (LARM)
PO Box 63703 (World's End PO, Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), London SW3 5SW.
www.london-arm.org.uk

Last edited by KenG on 06 Apr 2010, 2:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I heartily agree.

Could you give me a list of UK politicians seeking our elimination/extermination please? It would be most useful to know who and what is for this program.

Please direct this question to the London Autistic Rights Movement ( http://www.london-arm.org.uk/ ).
(I'm merely the delivery boy)

Last edited by KenG on 06 Apr 2010, 2:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes, we will have to take on the idiot politicians as discussed above, but that really should not be more than one third of it. Two thirds of our efforts and activism, and perhaps more, should be developing our own positive program(s).

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Fixed: http://www.london-arm.org.uk/

I'd come along to a meeting, but it costs around £90 on the train from Leeds, or £23 on the coach, and that takes 4 and a half hours each way. Good luck anyway

Perhaps you could start a Leeds Autistic Rights Movement?
You could get help (through email and phone) from "Autistic Rights Movement UK" and from the "London Autistic Rights Movement". (you can find them both through Google).

I've thought of setting up a Yorkshire equivalent of LARM, as we really need one up here, but don't know enough people to set one up just yet.

Solidarity and that,

hairmonster85

I've thought of setting up a Yorkshire equivalent of LARM, as we really need one up here, but don't know enough people to set one up just yet.

Solidarity and that,

hairmonster85

I've thought of setting up a Yorkshire equivalent of LARM, as we really need one up here, but don't know enough people to set one up just yet.

Solidarity and that,

hairmonster85

Do you know of Margret marshal and her husband who run the Leeds adult asperger group at all? They might be a starting point. Yorkshire is a bit of a big black hole for services, we have a small group in Sheffield who meet on the first saturday of every month at the showroom cinema near the main railway station

Outside of Leeds and Sheffield im not too sure what there is in yorkshire really. EVen the NAS stay clear of Sheffield these days.

There are people out there but its just not a centralised region compared to London which is a melting pot of 12 million people if you include the surrounding counties

I've been to their past two meetings, but tbh, I'd rather be involved in a proper self-advocacy group like ASAN, and one that's non-hierarchical. Hopefully something will pop up from the magazine I've started

http://www.aspiremag.org.uk

Hello. How did you start this up? How is it run? Do you think something similar is feasible across the pond, where I am? What are you working on and how successful are you so far?

Something similar already works across the pond. It is called 'The Autistic Self Advocacy Network':
http://www.autisticadvocacy.org/

It has chapters in 12 US states, as well as in Canada and in Australia:
http://www.autisticadvocacy.org/modules ... egoryid=15

Feel free to join the nearest chapter to where you live, or start a new chapter yourself.
(if you want to start a new chapter, please consult either Elesia Ashkenazy or Ari Ne'eman, whose e-mail addresses you can find in the link above)