Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act)

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Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act)

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act)

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Ford suggests that autism is a divergent way of perceiving, an interbodily, beyond-the-skin experiential of detail and overwhelm and intricacy. A new exploration—a work that defines, defies, and defiles the boundaries of rhetorical regimes of neurological oppression. 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. Becoming nonautistic is likewise becoming nonqueer-for anything that registers as socially deviant may fall under autism's purview.

Many of the gains made in disability rights and community participation have arguably come into being because of the social model. ABA is more aptly termed a sociosexual intervention than a mere social intervention, seeking as it does to make neuroqueer subjects virtually indistinguishable from their neurotypical, heterosexual, and cisgender peers. 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. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification of the neurological passivity of autistics. If you don't understand rhetoric, if you don't know queer theory, and even if you know nothing about disability studies - read it.With an unexpected, delightful turn to theorization of asexual and demisexual experiences as evidence of the autistic "demi-rhetorician"'s power, Yergeau concludes with an opening, especially for queer and trans studies.

i only got 10 pages and the word "rhetoric" has lost all meaning i dont get what she means and i feel dumb for not understanding and the thought of trying to for another 200 pages sounds worst than death.I bought it because it was recommended in Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities, a book that I very much appreciated. also if anyone thought like i did that "nueroqueerness" was the intersections of being queer (lgbtqia+) and being nuerodivergent. There is a fascinating book to be written on the overlap between queerness and autism, both in terms of how the two concepts have been framed throughout history, and how people labeled as "queer" and/or "autistic" have been (and continue to be) mistreated by society. 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.

Unless you're reading this on a computer, it gets tiring having to look up everything, and I gave up on doing that only a few pages in. Autistic people persist and insist on the narrativity of their tics, their stims, their echoed words and phrases, their relations with objects and environs. I am uncertain about the "academization" of the word "queer," for one, which did not help my opinion on the book. Remi Yergeau employs their rhetorical scalpel to dismantle the clinical assumptions and cultural stereotypes that have been used to deny, dismiss, and obscure the basic humanity of autistic people for generations. Yergeau wishes for us to embrace a future rhetoric full of tics and stims, and if this book is a glimpse of that future, it’s one every rhetorician should be advocating for.This book comes off as very angry and aggressive while trying to shove their ideology down your throat. She also critiques early intensive behavioral interventions—which have much in common with gay conversion therapy—and questions the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. she eviscerates ABA and baron-cohen's cisheterosexualizing tendencies and suggests an ambiguous affinity between being autistic and being queer.



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