Involution - Intention - Intervention - Invitation - Invention - Indexicality.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index. in the University Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure Melanie Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. In so doing, she demonstrates how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetorics very essence. In doing so, she demonstrates how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric's very essence'-Back cover. 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. 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 her method, she presents 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. She also critiques early intensive behavioral interventions-which have much in common with gay conversation therapy-and questions the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. 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. 'In Authoring Autism Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity-neuroqueerness-rather than an impairment.

Authoring Autism by Melanie Yergeau