Autist Cabal?

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Why not?

The pooling of resources and mutual support would enable us to do things which, individually, we couldn't do, such as provide support for starting up new businesses, which would increase employment for Autists. Using our moderate influence, we could work to make lives better for our members, many of whom would be probably unemployed. If Enties don't employ us, we don't employ Enties. Simples. By pooling our resources, we could spearhead and support initiatives which directly help Autists - rather than actively campaigning, we'll be passively campaigning by showing the world what we're capable of.

This, of course, ought to be decentralised and leaderless - it's a network, not a heirarchy. Multiple small groups with links to each other. We have to come up with an identifying marker, though...

Calling it a cabal, and with your username, I thought this was gonna be more autism supremacy

I think it's a god idea. Build it and they will come, perhaps?

I prefer to build from the ground up. Say, a strengthening of ties within existing Autist groups in areas, and setting up ones where there are none. The formation of a network of mutual support groups, say. Bringing groups of Autists in the same area into contact with each other so they can help each other.

I think that this a good idea, it is certainly more grounded in reality than having our own country or anything like that. I would certainly like to see autistic people poole their resources together to some extent in their support of one another. And to form our own independant culture, and define ourselves, for ourselves (And other by-products of us coming together generally.)

But I'm not convinced that employment or manufacturing is the correct format. The economic situation is dire and small business are going under by the day.

I think that an area where such a model would excell is in the area of support and advocacy.
As in a national level nonprofit like the arc but instead of being a clusterf**k of bad ideas spawned by good intentioned but painfully ignorent people actually put something together that works.

Well... I was actually thinking of it more along the lines of mutual support groups. Not advocacy, not directly, more supporting each other to prove that we can actually be useful.

When I say about employment, I mean that we can help each other start up businesses, find employment etc. I was thinking those with businesses could employ Autists.

Mmmm, perhaps this belongs in the Autism Politics/Advocacy forum... I don't want to duplicate threads, could a mod move it please?

Have a look at other political groups that have worked with this leaderless model, in particular the anarchist movement's organisational structure.

How long have Autists been organized in any meaningful way? That something has not happened before is not a reason to say it can't happen. There are already regional groups of Autists, I am led to believe? All this is is, in a way, the next step.