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- Title
Autonomously Autistic: Exposing the Locus of Autistic Pathology.
- Authors
Williams, Anna
- Abstract
The locus of pathology exists not in the autistic person, but in the interaction between a hostile environment and the subjugated autistic. It is essential for parents, practitioners, educators, and autistic people themselves to ask the crucial question- Is the autistic a machine, or an organism? Are we active agents in our own embodied experience, or are we a locus of behavior? It is not with defiance, but autonomy, that I declare as an autistic person- I am not a manifestation of stimuli and response. I am agential. I am Autonomously Autistic.
- Subjects
AUTISTIC people; AUTONOMY (Psychology)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2, p60
- ISSN
1929-9192
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15353/cjds.v7i2.423