Status Updates From War on Autism: On the Cultu...

hijacking this to note that I got perma-zucc'd

apparently if you lose your temper on racists insisting ice is only rounding up s*x offenders (eyeroll) and tag the bi-fay in replies which suggest the racists own hard drives should be assessed (and of course are also very obviously queer and neurodivergent) there is a goid chance that fb will kill your account (and your IG) too with no appeal.

"The autistic child - conceived of as the child 'with" or tied to autism - thus, becomes framed as needing to be freed from [their] autism so as to be free to become a good neoliberal subject, well positioned to enjoy human rights by participating in and, indeed, enjoying a 'full' life of production and consumption."

"Discursive categories and subjectivities govern the bodies and minds of people - they function to limit the ways people can (are permitted to) move, think, act and exist in the world. Moreover, they function dangerously to produce those people who do not, cannot or choose not to fit into received subject positions as incoherent: nonsensical, irrational or even as threatening."

I am learning SO MUCH from this book! It’s very academic so slow reading but worth all my effort and time.