Autism & Asperger Syndrom Books

Actually, diversity is the only real strenght of humans. Humans are not as fast as cheetahs, not
We can't swim like a dolphin, climb like a monkey, fly like a bird or run like a horse. We don't have the sharp teeth of a lion and we can't scent as well as a dog. But every human brings different abilities, and put together, we build houses, bridges, write books, invent the internet
Could you build a house alone? Would you have invented the internet? Even if nobody else had invented a computer before and you would have to start from scratch? Probably not.
Some people can't cook but they can write. Others can't do woodworking, but they can make other people laugh. Some people don't socialize, but they do programming (OK, the last one is a cliche).

No matter what a person can do or cannot do, we should respect everybody. Most of us aren't Nobel Prize winners and we want to be respected, too. So that strange girl (or guy), who doesn't talk, make strange movements with her arms and is really strange after all, wants to be respected to.
Autism (and Asperger Syndrom or whatever you call it) is not a disease. It is, first of all, a social or cultural construct. For years and centuries, we lived without having that category. In our current world, expectations to conform to norms are higher than ever (even if or exactly because we live in an individualist society).
On the other hand, you might see being autistic just as being the way that person is. There is no mystery behind it.

Actually, there are many autism organisations and most of them are "curebies" (basically parents who are trying to cure there autistic children by torturing them with ABA to make them "normal"). There are more and more organisations run by autistics themselves. I want to point you to the German autistic advovacy Autismus-Kultur. They are also starting an english-language blog Autism & Culture.