OK, someone posted an earlier post that I had made on future rights movements to the Aspies for Freedom forum, and the response was interesting. After a few holes in my post were identified, I was going to make a few addendi to the bottom of the post, but it got a bit too long.
So anyway, the reason why I mentioned the stereotyping of the Autism rights movement is possibly because of a portion of the relevant Wikipedia article that had once contained a(n opnionated) mention of the anti-psychiatry movement. Consequently, it may have since been edited from the article for either neutrality or lack of citations (particularly since, from the view of the public, anti-psychiatry is a very contentious issue to take on; I would understand if the autism rights movement organizations would readily dispute any ties with it). Sorry to the Aspies for Freedom forum if the post made any inaccurate insinuations concerning the aims of it or any other autism rights organizations.
Also, I would like to know if the Aspies for Freedom organization is more pro-acceptance or anti-cure. Not that either stance would invalidate the importance of the other or make the organization anti-psychiatry, of course.
Finally, in response to the questions from the AfF forum, I think that it would take another post to expound on the idea of fetish and furry rights. The links that I had provided for such topics may not even cover the basics: since “civil rights” as a political concept has historically involved two major (and evolving) components – prevention of historical abuses against, and inclusion into the political process of a group and similar groups – it is, indeed, very complex to encapsulate what could be considered as a “right” for those who identify with their fetishes, be they sexual, spiritual or physical.
Maybe civil rights, as it evolves, will expand out of the political arena into the social, sexual, religiospiritual and other concerns that involve disenfranchized or unrecognized minorities who would otherwise contribute (directly or no) to society.
Some of neurodiversity dislike the idea of cure so much that they say it would change the entire personality of a person – as it infact is about their identity, but lately there hasn’t been too much focus on the question whether to cure by those who have subscribed to neurodiversity for a longer period of time, it seems like the discussion has moved on to “What is cure?” – as we really don’t know what effect whatever may be called a cure has on people on the spectrum.
The neurodiversity community is definitely pro-acceptance, if you want to see reactions to offences against autistics you will find it in the neurodiversity community.
The basic thing about neurodiversity is really equality between the different neurological wirings. The ideas of cure and cause by environmental effects is really just a symptom of lack of acceptance of autism and is very similar to what was seen in relation to homosexuality back in the 60’s.