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Self-indulgent narratives
I’ve been reading a lot of stuff lately — and by stuff, I mean several articles that, per academic ritual, I should probably cite right here — stuff that deals with the role of the author in a...
View ArticleAspies on the interwebz
Apparently, there are a lot of people who fake Asperger’s on the internet. Or, at the very least, apparently there are a lot of people who, whether or not they have Asperger’s, use Asperger’s as an...
View ArticleOn “aspie” as a term
A couple of the listervs I subscribe to have been debating the term “aspie,” and most contributors have described aspie/autie as cutesy, shiny awfulness. The discussion has provided me with some...
View ArticleCFP: Disability and Rhetoric
John Duffy and I are co-editing a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly on disability and rhetoric. I’ve pasted the call for papers below, as many of those reading have research interests in...
View ArticleFYI: Autistic Women and Autistic Writers Exist, and They Might Even Be...
I’ve been going through old computer files lately, and I realized that I never posted the paper I read at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) conference that took place at Michigan State this past October...
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How to train your baby to be neurotypical
On June 23, I attended the Nisonger Autism Institute, a day-long, invitation-only conference that focused on transition across the lifespan. I’ve been wanting to write on my experience there for some...
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Columbus protest against Autism Speaks
On Sunday, October 10, I joined forces with a dozen individuals and protested the Autism Speaks Walk for Autism at Ohio State. We faced 18,000 walkers, several of whom screamed at us, berated us, tried...
View ArticleBut we just want to help people like you.
In many respects, I think the subject heading says it all. I hear this a lot lately, primarily from undergraduate students who find autistic self-advocacy reprehensible and/or incomprehensible. In...
View ArticleThat’s just your autism talking (and other phrases that shouldn’t appear in...
During my second week as a new faculty member, I was involuntarily committed to the psych ward at the university hospital. I would say that I make this statement against my better judgment, but such a...
View ArticleI stim, therefore I am [Loud Hands Blogaround]
I’ve become obsessed with my kindergarten graduation. Initially, the video was painful to watch: I am stimming, I am ticcing, I am moving — in ways that visibly differ from my peers. But lately, I am...
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Nipple play
Content: psychiatric abuse I am thinking about a field. This field is filled with pinwheels. I stim in this field. Hands wrenching, full and swaying body movements, words that are cool and crisp, words...
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