- Autreach is an
umbrella organisation under which autonomous
Autreach groups can form to campaign
politically across Europe for Autistic rights,
providing that they subscribe to this basic set
of principles.
* Autreach groups aim to be inclusive of and open
and accessible to all Autistic people regardless
of cognitive style, IQ, social status or
possession of a formal diagnosis.
* Autreach members agree not to discriminate on
grounds of disability, impairment, ethnicity,
gender, sexual orientation, political or
religious affiliation, size, age or social status.
* Autreach promotes the Social Model of
disability as a useful tool for liberation
* Autreach believes that a valid equal
opportunities model must never attempt to combat
our stigma by comparing other groups unfavourably
with us.
* Autreach is open to working alliances within
broader frameworks of neurodiversity, disability
and psychiatric survivors rights. However
Autreach will not ally itself with any
organisation demanding separate rights for
Autistic people above and beyond the rights that
are due to all human beings.
* Autreach is part of a universal struggle for
the dignity of the human being. As a group we
demand our human rights in solidarity with other
groups stigmatised, marginalised, oppressed and/or
disempowered by any medical or normocentric model
of difference.
In sum, we are:
fully human and fully here
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