Agree with everything you wrote...
...apart from this;
I don't believe in complaining unless I can do something about it.
I don't believe in going through the normal channels, like healthcare, education or charities to effect a change.
I certainly don't believe in waiting for people who are not affected to make change happen.
I believe in the power of the individual to exert disruption on anything they care enough about, and I believe in the power of a whole **** load of people working together towards a common goal.
If you look at any social movement that affects massive change, they usually have their seeds in a very small number of people who started a movement, and then a chain reaction was created that became unstoppable.
Often the repercussions are felt for decades and even centuries later.
Who in the British Empire would have believed that one man could unite a nation and a peaceful revolution could wrest away the jewel in the crown from the largest land empire there has ever been? Starting with zero power, zero money, zero organisation, zero experience.
Gandhi's most sensible option would have been to sit around complaining, but he didn't do that.
I'm not likening myself to him in any way, but I'm not going to sit around complaining either - change must come, and that's the only outcome I'm willing to accept.
I have the outlines of a plan, and I've started on the smallest part already - I wasn't planning on making this public yet, but I've had some bad news, and this thread came up, and I just thought to hell with perfection or completeness.
The first small step is to create a blog where people on the spectrum can write about their own experiences as slices of their lives. I'm thinking like the Chicken Soup of the Soul books, but about us.
http://www.aspielife.net/
I'm still working on the design, and I only have a few posts up, which are not that great yet.
The reason for this site is that one of the most helpful things I've found is finding all you guys who share my experiences, or at least understand them. I want a site where newly enlightened aspies (or any spectrum people ) can dive in and suddenly find themselves not alone any more.
So many of us feel alone for so much of our lives, and this cannot go on.
There are millions of us.
To start with we need to build tribes, communities, and groups to make this world easier for us and the people who come after us.
So, anyone who would like to contribute to this blog, please PM me. We will have rules, and a focus so blogging will not be random. If you've never blogged before, I'll supply support and Wordpress usage videos. I'll supply questions to answer for blog titles ideas, and help as I can. (I do that as a day job already)
I want AspieLife to become the place NTs and media channels go to get an understand about our lives, not ******** sites like Austism Speaks, and the like. Journalists will choose the most reliable and the most interesting "at the coal face" accounts.
Only we can provide that.
I often think that in ten years time people might look back on what we start now and see that this was when the wind changed direction, and started to blow in our favour.
We just need lots of people to start blowing, and eventually it will - there is no other acceptable outcome.
I hope that didn't come across as too gung-ho.