If we think of autism as a diagnostic that was historically bestowed on the autistic subject from outside the subject, i.e.
Melanie Yergeau's "Authoring Autism" is a text about autism that is simultaneously a queering of autism. It is, after all, a text about authoring an identity, and who am I to add another layer to its language? It is full of quotable passages, and my main effort has been to capture essential ideas and serve them up as directly as possible. But rather than offering an analytical reading, I have decided to let it speak for itself as much as possible. In the second of this two-part blog post series about texts on autism, I explore the contours and concepts on offer in Melanie Yergeau's "Authoring Autism". Neuroqueer (n): an individual whose identity has in some way been shaped by their engagement in practices of neuroqueering Neurotypical (n): a label for people who are non-autistic
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