it’s also just so upsetting to consider in such depth and with such rigor how the autistic is constructed in opposition to all that is human. Personally, I do not find the academization of "queer" appropriate, as I think it takes away from the suffering associated with the word. I would consider myself educated; I'm in the first year of my masters degree at the time of writing this. It's one of the most intellectually stimulating and inspiring books that I've read in a very long time.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Beneath the humor, however, bubbles a righteous and justified rage that such a book even has to be written, that Yergeau essentially has to spend all this time pointing out that autism is not, in fact, a lack (as everything from the clinical literature to organizations that at least ostensibly 'speak' for autism seem to portray it as); that she has to defend herself and autistic people as human. Yergeau (211) disrupts the gaze of medical experts and in so doing contends that the "ga(y)ze" of autism offers fruitful contributions toward reconceptualizing rhetoric in a manner that simultaneously acknowledges and refuses its current role in the exclusions of disabled peoples and in particular, autistic peoples. For the love of god dont talk about a macro structures like the pfc and some other random set of circuits you may have once seen while skimming a pop sci article or a psych 101 class.

One of the ways Yergeau (10) questions the rhetoric of autistic bodies that are out of control, is by problematizing "the treatment enterprises that structure an autistic child's life. Thus, in seeking to trouble the western-centric, ableist, heteronormative claims of rhetoric, Authoring Autism also disrupts conceptions of the normative human subject. here, yergeau draws upon merleau-pontyan theorists to elucidate the ways in which autistic subjectivies are expressed through pre-symbolic, affective and embodied modes of communication. Yergeau's queered and disabled reading of rhetoric unfolds through many "in" sights into the dehumanizing gaze of pathological, clinical, and diagnostic renderings of autistic people. But then, I consider a reliance on dense idiosyncratic jargon to be both a sign of authorial bad faith AND a waste of my goddamn (autistic crip queer) time.

autism's dynamism and haecceity do not make it "queer" (nor do they make it "mestiza," ugh), they simply indicate its conceptual vagueness. Perhaps you must have studied rhetoric extensively to have any chance of making much sense of this book. Yegeau is thoughtful, a master of theory, and they address vital issues that are very rarely talked about, acknowledged, or understood.For those not in the know, ASAB language was developed within the trans community to make it possible to refer to the sex/gender one had been assigned by society without having to make a statement about one's personal identity in the process. Yergeau argues both that autistics are capable of intentional rhetoric and that even if they weren’t, non-intentionality has its own rhetoricity which has been overlooked to horrifying results in clinical contexts. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. This is not just a landmark book; it's a book that opens up a whole terrain of discourse informed by the insights of queer theory and the disability rights movement.

Sketching new terrains of thought, Authoring Autism gestures toward vibrant words, images, and textures that sit with us, and we feel their weight.And, while at times these worlds may be idiosyncratic or mutually unintelligible, these worlds hold value, meaning, and at times meaninglesness. Deftly integrates rich theoretical analysis with moments of humor, irony, autoethnography (autie-ethnography), and poetic insight. moreover, as yergeau argues with the example of zeno's flying arrow, dynamism and vagueness are not *unique* to autism, but are properly ontological predicates that can be applied to all existing things. To be autistic is to live and lie in a between space-the crevices that neurotypicals can ignore often function as the entirety of what neuroqueer subjects perceive. Contrary to another review here, I don’t believe Yergeau is attempting to assimilate autism to queerness.

Autistic people have long identified with or as the queer - whether by means of sexuality or gender identity, or by means of a queer asociality that fucks norms.Yergeau carefully intertwines lived experience, autistic memoir, clinical discourse, and humanities theory (particularly rhetorical studies, narrative theory, disability studies, and queer theory) to achieve a highly insightful hybrid discourse. I did not read this like academic literature is meant to be read, studiously, looking up words I did not understand. To be fair, Yergeau's book does anticipate several of these critiques-- especially the one about the navel-gazing.