Aspies For Freedom

Here are a few good suggestions for what I could do to mobilise others of the autism/AS spectrum in Melbourne for next year's Autistic Pride Day:

Here in Melbourne, we have a unique disability-friendly non-alcoholic entertainment venue initiative called Club Wild, which hold regular Friday or Saturday night discos and live music events in various town halls and community halls. One of their organisers, MC Akash, is also a fellow Aspie so that makes it even easier to get together and organise something with Club Wild to coincide with next year's APD celebrations.

This type of APD special event could take the form of a daytime-to-late-night festive celebration with:

- live bands

- an open-jam stage area so that budding autistic/Aspie musicians can get up and perform their own songs (even non-autistic musicians can join in with them for greater social interaction benefits)

- a series of special music workshops to encourage autistics/Aspies - both male and female - to learn more about the guitar, the bass guitar, the drums and the keyboards, and to give them a chance to have a crack at trying out these instruments themselves

- a few autistic/Aspie adults and teens dressed up in various costumes, including super-hero costumes, "Village People"-type costumes, Kiss and other rock star-type costumes and outfits, animal costumes, clown suits, schoolboy/schoolgirl costumes, even Austin Powers and Foxxy Cleopatra costumes!

- specially-decorated snack stalls, including a Fairy Floss stall managed by one or two autistics/Aspies dressed up as fairies

- a few of the clown-costumed autistics/Aspies giving away free balloons (with various autism rights slogans and pretty pictures on them) to any kids (and others too, of course)

- stalls carrying printed and audiovisual information about autism and AS at reasonable prices to help raise money against the stuck-up "cure and control"/"autism-research" crowd

- AND, to make this big bash REALLY SWING - we could even invite the media including any local or visiting community access TV crews along to cover it all and really make our voice heard in the corridors of Canberra, Washington, Westminster and anywhere else globally where governments are blindly following the evil agenda of the "autism-research"/"cure and control" crowd!

So what do you all think everybody!

Cheers,
Steven.

Wow, that sounds amazing, and you will have a long time to get it all organized. :grin:

I've got to be honest, the aspies who I know go for cerebral or outdoors type leisure activities, and aren't much into parties or purely social type activities. After a few truly deplorable and tragically boring evenings spent in my 20s with friends in noisy, smokey, crowded nightclubs and pubs, I avoid such venues like the plague.

Things that I think aspies might be interested in are good food, good junk food, politics, interesting discussions (not possible with loud music in the background), technology and science.