AUTISM AMBASSADORS CORPS' GOALS

1)    Provide a scientific and experiential based defense of “neurodiversity.”

2)    Providing both autistics and neurotypicals with a complete and current understand of autism

a.     Autistics on Autism Conferences

b.    Autism Web Conferences

c.     Special presentations to professional, community, religious and social groups.

d.    Promotional Videos

3)    The formation of groups that promote constructive interaction between autistics and neurotypicals:

a.     Autism Mutual Support Groups

b.    Autistic Mentoring Group

c.     Autism Expos

d.    Autism Ambassadors Clubs

4)    Help Autistics to develop effective self-management skills that will allow them to function with as little special assistance as possible.

5)    Teach Autistics how to advocate for themselves.

6)    Speak to neurotypicals about autism on behalf of those autistics who cannot speak for themselves.

7)    Work with the medical/psychiatric communities to bring more uniformity in how they diagnoses autistics, especially when it come to diagnosing previously undiagnosed adults.

8)    Provide direct input to researchers…

a.     …when they are deciding what projects to pursue.

b.    …about the consistency of their findings with our own personal experiences.

c.     …by providing them with an autism database for the purposes of statistical analysis and developing strategies for how to help autistics.

d.    …in order to come up with a complete list of agitates that effect many autistics as well as effective countermeasures that will bring relief to autistics and their loved ones who are effected by them.

9)    Oppose the practices of…

a.     …advocates, researchers, educators, etc., censoring viewpoints of autism that differs their own.

b.    …exaggerating the struggles of autistics, especially for the purpose of fund raising.

c.     …the use of the labels that gage the level of an autistic’s functionality as permanent and/or all encompassing.

d.    … using absolute stereotypes to define autism.

e.     …defining autism solely by its negative manifestation.

f.      …defining autism in a manner that only the professional can understand.

g.    …assuming that different equals disability.

h.    …equating the “normalization” of autistics through behavioral modification to a “cure” for autism.

i.      …using restraints, confinement and noxious stimuli as a method of behavioral modification.

j.      …using medication as a first of resort.