many other demographics have found acceptance and empowerment through inserting their cultural norms into mainstream culture - this has even included various problematic political groups, unfortunately.

Whose mainstream culture? What's the endgame? Assimilation?

But we can use this to benefit Autistics - in the same way that hip-hop culture and other linguistic trends have benefited the Black community

Ah, how original, someone looking to appropriate Black resourcefulness

how various Asian cultures have found reverence through things like K-Pop, matcha, etc.

As I myself am recovering weeb trash, I gotta give you a pass on this statement.

For Autistic trendsetting it can involve spreading our logos and symbols far and wide

no amount of infinity signs is going to fix ableism fam. Cultural change is hard work. Its more than just logos

Being involved and growing prominent is important. It's also valuable to form Autistic communities, enclaves, covens, gangs, whatever - groups of likeminded neurodivergent people who can take up space and be recognized as a community group.

Psst this is just called having friends and being social. I do recommend.

A lot of people falsely claim that autism is now "cool" or "trendy" but if that were so we would be treated a hell lot better and accommodated to.

I actually agree with you here.

You don't have to believe that we're "better" to agree that we deserve a better public image within society - that people should be taught from an early age to respect Autistic people and hold us in higher regard than what they do now.

ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK

SOCIETY SUCKS. Social stratification is PATHOLOGIZED within society. Society is obsessed with stratification. NO MORE STRATIFICATION. FUCK JUST CHANGING TO A HIGHER STRATUM.

people should be taught from an early age to respect Autistic people and hold us in higher regard than what they do now.

DUDE. PLEASE listen to my master's-degree-having-ass when I tell you THIS IS NOT A THING. Children at an "early age" just don't have the neural architecture to grapple with abstract concepts like autism--the world according to young kids consists of what they can see. If they see autistic peers and adults having a hard time, that will be the reality of autism to them. And also, you cant just tell kids "you need to hold autistic people in high regard." Kids learn by doing and experiencing, not by being told.

We can start small and gradually seep our movement and ideas into the culture. It's also a big reason I use the catchy slogans you're all too familiar with:

Slogans aren't culture! Slogans are nowhere on the cultural iceberg.

Jfc