Today’s Jeff Lynne Fix
Jeff Lynne at the 2004 Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, playing with Tom Petty and Prince on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Autistic. Assistant professor of English. Lover of all things Electric Light Orchestra.

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I've had this blog for a number of years. And I've never liked the term aspie. (It sounds like ass pee.) I also detest the dichotomy the term creates -- separating autistic people.
Nonetheless, I initially placed aspie in the title of this blog, in part, to examine the word itself, to examine autism politics, to reform a pathological identity into a cultural one. I've never enjoyed calling myself an aspie -- but a bunch of doctor-types have. Their paternalism angered me, and I created this blog shortly after I'd been officially diagnosed. I've changed a lot in that time, especially in how I perceive myself and my autistic identity.
All of this to say: There's a certain vexed, personal history that comes with this term and my (snarky) usage of it. The title of my blog, though, bothers me -- a lot. I suspect I'll change it to autistic rhetorics, or something similar, in the future. I welcome name-change suggestions!
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