OUR MISSION

Self-Advocacy and Autonomy

​Ensuring that autistic voices across Canada are heard in cultural and political conversations about autism, so that policies include and value all autistic people.

Autistic Well-Being

Advocating for access and self-determination for all autistic people, in healthcare, education, employment, support services, and community networks across the lifespan.​

Cultural Change

Promoting autistic culture, creating safer autistic spaces, and fostering pride, to change the cultural narrative about autism from one of tragedy and normalization to one of support and acceptance.

Our Values

• ​Inclusion and accessibility for all
• Equity across different disabilities, ages, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, social classes, and nationalities
• Active respect, acceptance, and pride
• Autonomy and self-determination
• Collaboration, community, and peer support

​We strive to follow the 10 Principles of Disability Justice, as put forward by Patty Berne and others at Sins Invalid:

1. ​Intersectionality
2. Leadership of the most impacted
3. ​Anti-capitalism
4. Cross-movement organizing
   
5. Wholeness
   
6. Sustainability
   
7. Cross-disability solidarity
   
8. Interdependence
   
9. Collective access
   
10. Collective liberation
    

Read more about the 10 Principles of Disability Justice.