School autism awareness month

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So I posted about this a while back. My school does Autism Awareness Month in April. Past two years it was horrible, all the Autism Speaks "facts" about Autism, Autistic children don't feel pain, have no emotional understanding, et cetera. I talked with the school psychologist, who is running it this year, and she says that I can make posters with her, or get other kids on the spectrum to help with making posters. I think I could probably find some better way to do it. Any ideas? I'd also ideally like to find some place from which I can get real facts about all types of Autism, because they try to read one per day over the speaker system, and I'm looking to represent all types, not just low functioning.

Posters are not a bad idea, pamphlets either. And having an austic person give a lecture of sorts would be great, too if you can find someone or you and your autie friends can do the talking or making the pamphlets!

That's another thing. Is it worth it for me to do a presentation? I'm afraid that it will lower people's respect for me, not that I have far to fall anyways, still. I'm also concerned that teachers will judge me on it, an even worse prospect. There is one high functioning kid who did a presentation a few years ago who might, how would I ask him? Confusedness....

Could you create some presentations about famous people who have ASD? Temple Grandin is probably a good start, but there are also historical figures that contemporary researchers believe had ASDs.

If you want to go a pop culture route, Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, the title character in Bones, "Hands" from Boston Legal, there's a doctor character on Grey's Anatomy.....

Granted, these are fictional characters, but I think they provide an idea of the capacity people on the spectrum have to excel, and these characters certainly defy the idea of no emotion, etc.