Roderick,

In my personal experience the NT world is incapable of accepting the idea that there are neurological minorities as a function of their neurotypicality; by definition, their neurotypicality prevents their understanding of the neurological minorities that are patently obvious to us.  

In the NT mind, neurological differences = neurological deficiencies.  To an NT, those with neurological differences are DISabled, rather than DIFFERENTLYabled; DEficient rather than PROficient.  

If you are a native English speaker in China, you're not disabled.  You're just at a cultural and socio-linguistic disadvantage.  The same is true of Aspies/Auties in an NT world.  

I personally don't want to be labeled as disabled; however, I don't want to be discriminated against because of my neuro-differences.  I want equal rights under the law as a minority group without judgement being passed on my "ability".

You mentioned the hetero/homosexual divide and the acceptance of sexual minorities by the sexual majority.  Homosexuals may have been the target of discrimination (and still are, I know); however, nobody ever viewed them as mentally deficient because of their sexual orientation. No one ever doubted or discounted the potential for intellectual or social contributions of homosexuals, even when they were discriminated against because of moral/societal judgements.

Yes, it is absolutely our neurology that makes us different.  However, to my view we live on a planet that is not *yet* capable of recognising the equality of neurodifferences.  It's a bit like landing with a human spouse and procreative mate on a planet where reproduction occurs via the touching together of earlobes...they just wouldn't be able to grasp that our method of reproduction is right, let along the zing we get from it  :wink: