Shattered Birds: An Autistic Response to Sandra McPherson's "The Spaces Between Birds," Donna Williams' "Nobody Nowhere," and Anand Prahlad's "The...
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798538121625
- Category
- Autistic people
- Pages
- 53
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Author
- Caitlin Dakota Flaws
Description
Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of the most controversial behavioral disorders in America, and I have it. Diagnosed at a young age with Asperger's Syndrome, a now defunct diagnosis, I have been marked as different, weird, a freak. In this thesis I will reflect on the autistic existence and the precarity of the autistic voice, while using personal anecdotes about my life on the spectrum along with Sandra McPherson's The Spaces Between Birds, which is centered around raising her daughter, Phoebe, who is on the autism spectrum, two first-hand accounts: Donna Williams' memoir Nobody Nowhere, and Anand Prahlad's The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir. Through the methodology of the fragment, I weave research, analysis of these texts, and personal stories about being autistic, to demonstrate the shattered existence of living on the autism spectrum. These narratives are contextualized by my own research into the history of the diagnosis and autistic rhetoric. Through the fragment, as well as autotheory, I represent what it's like living on the autism spectrum.
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