Hi Roderick, joining with the disabled movement has been suggested before.
There are 2 problems with that. One, if we campaign for all disabilites to be classed as a minority people will say to us as a group, or individually, but you aren't disabled so what has it got to do with you. They already try to do this with autism, as the majority of us have AS, even though, of course AS is high functioning autism.
The other thing is that if autism was classed as a minority through disability, then I, and 1000's of others would not be within that category as we are not disabled.
I would not be classed as disabled in the UK at all, and could not get disability living allowance. Some aspies and auties can get it and would be classified as disabled, it depends on the needs of the individual. But I wouldn't want everyone on the autism spectrum to be divided as far as rights are concerned by their having or not having a disability.
Also there are groups working towards the UN minority status for those who are disabled, and I hope they can achieve it, if anyone wants to help they can of course do that.
I think cultural or neurological is the most positive way to move forward. I'm still not sure how to explain neurological to potential supporters, to some the whole idea is a new concept, and we still get 'brain disease' as a description of autism. :roll: