Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a 'social disorder', defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined have too rarely been questioned. This book demonstrates the value of the Humanities towards developing fuller understandings of Autistic adulthood, adapting theory from Adorno, Foucault and Butler. The chapters expose serious scientific limitations of medical assumptions that Autistic people are gifted at…mehr
Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a 'social disorder', defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined have too rarely been questioned. This book demonstrates the value of the Humanities towards developing fuller understandings of Autistic adulthood, adapting theory from Adorno, Foucault and Butler. The chapters expose serious scientific limitations of medical assumptions that Autistic people are gifted at maths but indifferent to fiction. After interrogating such clichés in literature, cinema and television, James McGrath also explores more radical depictions of Autism via novels by Douglas Coupland, Margaret Atwood, Clare Morrall and Meg Wolitzer, plus poems by Les Murray and Joanne Limburg. Follow this link to see James McGrath in conversation with Kelly-Anne Watson at Leeds Beckett University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOotRZRzv4 Follow this link to view a content breakdown of the above interview: https://www.academia.edu/36406389/Naming_Adult_Autism_A_Conversation_winter_2017_ Follow this link to read a 'Seeking Sara' blog interview with James: https://seekingsara174.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/639
Dr James McGrath is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. His poems appear in various literary magazines. He has also published on popular music, particularly The Beatles and Joy Division
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Introduction 1. Outsider Science and Literary Exclusion: A Reply to Denials of Autistic Imagination: Childhood Autism and the Psychiatric Imagination Autism and the Machine Computer Coding and as Literature: Douglas Coupland's Microserfs Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake: Autism and Literary Exclusion Inaccuracies in Baron-Cohen's "Minds Wired for Science" Narrative Bias in the Adult Autism-Spectrum Quotient Test (2001) Re-membering Autistic Imagination: Asperger, Wing, and Harro L. Silberman's Neurotribes: Science, Science Fiction and Autism Autistic Responses to Atwood's Oryx and Crake The SySTEMizing Focus and its Implications for Autistic Diversity 2. Metaphors and Mirrors: The Otherness of Adult Autism Picking Up The Mirror: Enfreaking Normalcy Infantilizing Adult Autism in Diagnostic Observations Autism and Disorder: Foucault, Confinement and Cultural Fear The Screen as Mirror: The Office (UK) and the Neurotypical Gaze Post-Curious: Adult Autism as Cultural Spectacle in Big Bang Theory and The Accountant Autism, Metaphor and Metonymy Challenging the Myth of Autistic Narcissism 'Mirror Neuron' Theory and the Normative Stare Otherizing Autism Parents: Refrigerator Psychiatrists and their 21st-century Spectres The Who's Tommy (1969) and the Cultural Onset of Metaphorical Autism Autism and the Person: Les Murray's 'It Allows A Portrait In Linescan At Fifteen' Normativity Through the Looking-Glass: Joanne Limburg's The Autistic Alice 3. Against the 'New Classic' Adult Autism: Narratives of Gender, Intersectionality and Progression Patriarchy and Autism: The Cambridge Autism Research Centre and the 'Extreme Male Brain' The Extreme Male Gaze: Scientific 'Evidence' on Autism and Testosterone Fictions of the 'New Classic' Autism Neurodiversity, The Bridge and Autistic 'Adherence to Rules' Kay Mellor's The Syndicate: Class, Criminality, Race and Adult Autism Clare Morrall's The Language of Others (2008): Intersectionality, Autism and Womanhood Family and Phenotype: Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings Cultural Disability 4. 'Title' [sic] 5. Performing the Names of Autism Naming the Self Autistic Anger, Faith, and the Realization of Asperger Syndrome: Les Murray's 'The Tune On Your Mind' The Politics of a Name: Aspies, DSM-5 and the Psychiatric Retraction of Asperger Syndrome Autism, Performativity and Performance Autistic Criticism 1: Revisiting E. M. Forster's Howards End Autistic Criticism 2: Neurodiverse Meeting Points in 'Mad World' Bibliography Index
Introduction 1. Outsider Science and Literary Exclusion: A Reply to Denials of Autistic Imagination: Childhood Autism and the Psychiatric Imagination Autism and the Machine Computer Coding and as Literature: Douglas Coupland's Microserfs Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake: Autism and Literary Exclusion Inaccuracies in Baron-Cohen's "Minds Wired for Science" Narrative Bias in the Adult Autism-Spectrum Quotient Test (2001) Re-membering Autistic Imagination: Asperger, Wing, and Harro L. Silberman's Neurotribes: Science, Science Fiction and Autism Autistic Responses to Atwood's Oryx and Crake The SySTEMizing Focus and its Implications for Autistic Diversity 2. Metaphors and Mirrors: The Otherness of Adult Autism Picking Up The Mirror: Enfreaking Normalcy Infantilizing Adult Autism in Diagnostic Observations Autism and Disorder: Foucault, Confinement and Cultural Fear The Screen as Mirror: The Office (UK) and the Neurotypical Gaze Post-Curious: Adult Autism as Cultural Spectacle in Big Bang Theory and The Accountant Autism, Metaphor and Metonymy Challenging the Myth of Autistic Narcissism 'Mirror Neuron' Theory and the Normative Stare Otherizing Autism Parents: Refrigerator Psychiatrists and their 21st-century Spectres The Who's Tommy (1969) and the Cultural Onset of Metaphorical Autism Autism and the Person: Les Murray's 'It Allows A Portrait In Linescan At Fifteen' Normativity Through the Looking-Glass: Joanne Limburg's The Autistic Alice 3. Against the 'New Classic' Adult Autism: Narratives of Gender, Intersectionality and Progression Patriarchy and Autism: The Cambridge Autism Research Centre and the 'Extreme Male Brain' The Extreme Male Gaze: Scientific 'Evidence' on Autism and Testosterone Fictions of the 'New Classic' Autism Neurodiversity, The Bridge and Autistic 'Adherence to Rules' Kay Mellor's The Syndicate: Class, Criminality, Race and Adult Autism Clare Morrall's The Language of Others (2008): Intersectionality, Autism and Womanhood Family and Phenotype: Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings Cultural Disability 4. 'Title' [sic] 5. Performing the Names of Autism Naming the Self Autistic Anger, Faith, and the Realization of Asperger Syndrome: Les Murray's 'The Tune On Your Mind' The Politics of a Name: Aspies, DSM-5 and the Psychiatric Retraction of Asperger Syndrome Autism, Performativity and Performance Autistic Criticism 1: Revisiting E. M. Forster's Howards End Autistic Criticism 2: Neurodiverse Meeting Points in 'Mad World' Bibliography Index
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