Should There Be an Aspie Empowerment Day?

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Dear WrongPlanet.net,

Of recent, I've been feeling underpowered as if my batteries are low and need to be recharged. Sadly, I can't do this because we don't have a day to call our own: an Empowerment Day. All I am asking is that a special day be set aside to remember us and our contributions (does anyone even remember Albert Einstein anymore?) to society.

This is why I propose an Aspie Empowerment Day that all members of the greater autistic spectrum can get off work and school on. They will not need to make up missed work. That's what I call empowement!

—Néant Humain

What you need in the united states is an organisation representing aspergers by people with aspergers. The primary person to empower an individual is themselves through self advocacy and self empowerment and I believe in the united states that the healthcare services recognise this rather then professionals advocating for individuals. Therefore It is crucial that you become your own advocates and by this you need to take direct action yourselfs.

Here in the UK when diagnosis of aspergers began we had a foundation already with more traditional autistic inclined organisations such as the NAS (National Autistic Society) who took on the responsibility of aspergers (with mixed results...well little results i may add) ok they were pretty crap at it because it was volunteers, parents and charity workers but now there groups motivated by politics from the disability rights movements and other influences who are lead by individuals with AS starting to crop up and i see this as the beginning of a similair struggle to what physically disabled people had to go through in this country in the 1960's to 90's

So yes you need to form groups, not social groups, action groups and try to be as far reaching and cover as much of the united states as possible, not easy but some nutter has got to attempt it over there.

Actually, in the United States, empowerment is done collectively through marches, protests, book burnings, and vitriolic bombast on the part of self-proclaimed advocates. You don't know you're oppressed until an orator fires out condemnations of society in your name. This all coalesces into an Empowerment Day, where everyone the cause represents feels they have the right to take the day off to be lazy. This is what makes America great!

Sounds like Xmas

You just need new batteries. In America, we don't use rechargable batteries because we have single-use batteries! Any opportunity to cause more waste . . . I'm on it!

Editor's Note: Our cats need to have a battle royale, fight to the death! Battle Cats!

Yeah! and thenmaybe I could convince my Aspie friend to actually come out of the classroom and DO something for once! Great idea! But I think the name needs work[/code]