- Acknowledging and prioritizing political and personal connections to a group where one does not identify as a member.
- Identifying with means seeking to better understand the link to this group, often due to being implicated in the culture and politics of this group.
- Could be traditionally thought of as an ally, but might be considered more personal, sustained, and affective due to the careful, conscious joining that seeks to reduce separation while acknowledging power differential. 

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- Coalition building has been central to the autistic rights movement.
- Professor Sami Schalk's notion of "identifying with" is useful in coalition building as a framework to understand ways individuals and groups identify with each other.
- Identifying with appears to occur between autistic communities and the broader disability rights movements and communities within the neurodiversity paradigm as members support those broader objectives and initiatives while not viewing themselves to be one and the same.
- Cross-organizational coalition-building is complementary to "identifying with" as ways to tie together applications of both intersectionality theory and the neurodiversirty paradigm.

Coalition-building within the autistic rights movement and "identifying with"

Strand, L. (2017). Charting Relations between Intersectionality Theory and the Neurodiversity Paradigm. Disability Studies Quarterly, 2017 (2017).

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