Rhetoricity-has been used to deny their agency and per. The assumption that autistic people possess a not-quite Yergeau points out how “demi-rhetoricity”. Grained in ableist traditions of humanity and subjectiv.

Purpose within rhetorical tradition” that is deeply in. Tention,” questions the “centrality of intentionality and Tic authorship and, simultaneously, questions traditionalĭefinitions of rhetoricity and personhood. Logical Queerness, Yergeau challenges this denial of autis. In the 2018 Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neuro. This leads to the ironic situation that autistic authors of. Personhood, in effect dehumanizing their very being. Rent theories of autism-from Bruno Bettelheim’s Emptyįortress (1967) to Simon Baron-Cohen’s theory of mindĪnd mindblindess-deny autistic people subjectivity and Tivists and scholars have long criticized that past and cur. Neuropsychologist’s signature on my diagnostic papers, Has been a familiar situation ever since she was diag. For Yergeau, this denial of agency and rhetoric Hold, she lacks insight into her own behavior and that of As anĪutistic person, conventional theory and popular belief Self acting and talking, but her condition-autism. Sionals claiming that this was no longer Yergeau her. Rience, in which she faced various health care profes. Ond week as a professor of English at the University Untarily committed to a psychiatric ward during her sec. Some years ago, I read Melanie Yergeau’s “autie-Įthnographic” account of her experience of being invol. Published on H-Disability (November, 2018)Ĭommissioned by Iain C. Reviewed by Marion Schmidt (Georg August Universität, Göttingen)

Authoring Autism by Melanie Yergeau