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I joined Wikipedia a while back and have been steadily working on improving what I can about the Autism Rights Movement and Neurodiversity there.  Most of the articles currently existing are good, albeit too short.  In addition to minor page edits and vastly expanding the Autism Rights Movement Infobox, I recently created the "Shiny Autistics" article and have proposed adding a section about super-NTs to the "Neurotypical" article.  What I'm wondering is:  What do YOU think still needs to be added?
If you don't want to go and look at wikipedia yourself, at least take a look at the following articles that are currently listed as Autism Rights-related:

Autism rights movement
Ethical challenges to treatment
Aspies For Freedom
Autism Network International
Autistic Pride Day · Autreat
Autistic pride · Autistic culture
Neurodiversity · Neurotypical
Shiny autistics · Autistic community
Michelle Dawson · Temple Grandin
Jerry Newport · Amanda Baggs
Jim Sinclair · Jasmine O'Neill
Donna Williams

Not on this list are some related articles that are classed as being autism-related but NOT autism rights-related, such as the Autism article itself and the MMR controversy article.
What's still missing?
Kassiane Sibley (rettdevil.blogspot.com)

Usually has a pretty incisive, but sometimes humorous take on things.
I think some references and/or sources are needed for some - or all - of these. Perhaps it would be wise to look around for some articles and books and such.
A member of an ABA group is now editing autism related pages.
Let us give him a piece of our mind!
Hold your horses, there, people, it looks to me like this guy isn't doing anything wrong.  A quick look through his user contributions and at his user page shows that he is mainly concerned with the accuracy of statements on pages about behaviorism, etc.  His few contributions to autism-specific pages have not been POV-pushing.  I don't see any reason to pester him, as long as we continue to watch autism-related pages for any POV breaches.  However, I've found that the user Eubulides does an excellent job of keeping neutral and balanced POV in the autism articles.
No need to go to war.

He's an ABA professional and wants wiki to be truthful about ABA. So far he's been cooperative, but I'd keep a watchful eye.

Oh, and find sources for the articles you want salvaged.
Exactly. Keep it objective--wikipedia is informative. If you want to put down an opinion, preface it with something like "this group believes" or "some people think"; so it can't be confused with accepted fact.

Best way to get the word out via wikipedia is just what the OP is doing--adding information that tells what our side of the story is.
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