Aspies For Freedom

As you can see on their home page, http://autistics.org/ has a virtual home on http://secondlife.com/, the most popular 3d virtual world.

(AFF has also joined Second Life, and we are looking for participants and people with ideas of what to do in there to promote acceptance and awareness!)

Autistic Liberation Front (aka: http://autistics.org/) has made an Autism Museum which will feature a virtual art exhibit (I think artists could maybe choose whether or not a copy of their pictures were for sale?), and they would like to hear from Artistic Autistics who would be interested in participating!

Contact: surumi at yahoo dot com  (broken link to avoid spambots)

Also they are looking for suggestions and/or materials for other exhibits concerning autism from an autistic perspective.
The Museum is quite big and has already several display areas, conference rooms, guest apartments, and even an area of free stim toys for your avatar to use.  Outside there is a memorial for the autistic children who have been killed (some of the same children remembered in this list: http://thiswayoflife.com/murder.html ).  

There is lots of room for different exhibits.

Thank you in advance for your ideas and contributions!
Anything useful that is posted here (including questions) will be passed on to them at http://autistics.org/ because I don't think they are members here.

I meant to post some screenshots of the ALF headquarters.
They are the ones titled "ALF headquarters seen from several views" in this folder:
http://flickr.com/photos/natalialove/set...298276724/

I can't seem to remember how to post small versions of pics here, without actually saving a small version somewhere...

Just wanted to put an update...

I forgot to take photos but the art exhibits are slowly being filled (though there is still plenty of space for more!) and there are even some sculptures (one by AFF's own Amy, it is a really cool rainbow glass instalation - and interactive stim sculpture, if you stand inside it)...

The museum is growing, it is going to have a library (presumably with actual books and articles in the form of e-books?), and a setup to facilitate realistic conferences (there is a thing called a soapbox that lets one person speak publicly at once), and...

They are building visual exhibits where NTs can experience a little glimpse of Autistic-style perception of one's surroundings... and, I suppose, the reverse.

Also a history of "the invention of autism" (as a medical model, i think), and all sorts of things.  I think it's all going to be very interesting, and encourage you all (all who have the technology to get in) to come and check it out.

On a side-topic, SL has been contacted to inquire about their plans for making the world more accessible to people with visual problems, as right now it is not very comfortable for low-vision people to use SL chat, and possibly the animations as well.  They are apparently still processing this request.

The only thing that still disturbs me about SL is the technological requirements (http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php).  I had to buy a new computer to get in.  Granted, we  found a good deal, and I was due for one, and my husband wanted my old laptop for experiments (his fellow linuxeros out there in AFF-land will be happy to hear that he now runs 4 OS's at once...) But still.