Groups in The Movement
- Autism Network International (ANI) is a self-advocacy organization that was founded in 1992 by autistic individuals.
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is a self-advocacy organization founded by Ari Ne'eman to represent the autistic community and further the autism rights movement.
- Aspies For Freedom is a web-based organization for the autism community that has more than 20,000 members.
- Don't Play Me, Pay Me is a UK campaign, focusing on Asperger syndrome, encouraging and supporting actors with neurological conditions
Read more about this topic: Autism Rights Movement
Famous quotes containing the words the movement, groups in, groups and/or movement:
“So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman’s sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman’s highest privilege.”
—Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
“Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Suppose these houses are composed of ourselves,
So that they become an impalpable town, full of
Impalpable bells, transparencies of sound,
Sounding in the transparent dwellings of the self,
Impalpable habitations that seem to move
In the movement of the colors of the mind....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)