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- Title
Asperger's Syndrome, Subjectivity and the Senses.
- Authors
Badone, Ellen; Nicholas, David; Roberts, Wendy; Kien, Peter
- Abstract
Situated at the intersection of anthropological work on illness narratives and research on the anthropology of autism, this paper is a close reading of an autobiographical narrative recounted by Peter, a young man diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Responding to Solomon's (2010a:252) call for phenomenologically grounded accounts of "the subjective, sensory, and perceptual experiences of autism … based on personal narratives and practices of being and self-awareness," this paper calls into question key assumptions in the clinical and popular literature about ASD relating to theory of mind, empathy, capacity for metaphorical thinking, and ASD as a life-long condition.
- Subjects
ASPERGER'S syndrome; AUTISM research; THOUGHT &; thinking; PHENOMENOLOGY; EMPATHY; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 2016, Vol 40, Issue 3, p475
- ISSN
0165-005X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11013-016-9484-9