"nothing about us without us" needs to extend to different autistic people within the community as well as between autistic and allistic groups. including autistic people with different symptoms or severity of autism is essential. you can't use any old autistic person to represent the whole spectrum. for example, if your group of autistic people are all speaking then they shouldn't be making statements on the non verbal experience, even if they are also autistic, because it's not about them, and it is without the people they're pretending to represent.












