Teach NTs to speak Aspie, and help young Aspies be proud

I mentor so many young Aspies who want to be just like their NT classmates. Those same classmates are reading Harry Potter books, and wishing that they were different from most people. We are a neat bunch of people. We are the stop-and-smell-the-flowers people, the hey-the-emperor-has-no-clothes people, the what-if-we-did-it-this-way people. I give a talk on behalf of our people to NT audiences, in order to teach them how to speak our language. My first book, Larger Than Life: the Struggle to be Ten Feet Tall, which is coming out later this year, addresses Aspieness in Chapters 3 & 4. Associates of mine will be creating an Aspie community in the Pacific Northwest as a haven & getaway for our people. We are doing our own advocacy, on behalf of our people (see grasp.org), and changing the way the world sees us, treats us, and speaks about us. Being an Aspie is something we are; it is not a disease, disorder, or syndrome, although it is a handicap, in this industrialized society. I am an Aspie, and I am proud to be an Aspie.