Who can speak in the autism conversation? This is the question I keep returning to. Frequently, when I suggest that autism doesn’t need a cure — or that many autistics don’t want a cure — I’m greeted with the following retort: “You shouldn’t be cured. You’re high-functioning.” Ah, yes. I’m a high-functioning autistic. As a [...]
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 narrative, with identity and positionality, with the influence of the researcher upon the researched, with authorial interpretation. [...]
The first time I read Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was by force: I was in a graduate seminar on disability studies and the novel was part of the assigned reading. Prior to that point, I’d made the firm decision to refrain from reading it. The novel frequently came [...]
