Melanie Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness tags: allism, autism, autistic, social-norms 6 likes Like Part of the autistic experience is not being believed. In so doing, they demonstrate how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric's very essence. Autistic traits, taken together, represent everything that allistics devalue in an audience or social exchange. Contending that autism represents a queer way of being that simultaneously embraces and rejects the rhetorical, Yergeau shows how autistic people queer the lines of rhetoric, humanity, and agency. Using storying as their method, they present an alternative view of autistic rhetoricity by foregrounding the cunning rhetorical abilities of autistics and by framing autism as a narrative condition wherein autistics are the best-equipped people to define their experience. They also critique 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. She is the author of Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP, 2017) and her writing on disability can also be found in Journal of. 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. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity-neuroqueerness-rather than an impairment.
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