Jennie Chantal’s Reviews > War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence > Status Update

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

“By asserting that we all relate to autism, I am suggesting that we are collectively accountable for the oppressive and dangerous meanings of autism that are produced and circulated, cultural meanings that work to value and privilege certain ways of moving, thinking, feeling, communicating, and living over and against others.”

“How do dominant versions of autism that characterize it as a condition of human life instead of a lived human condition — a some ‘thing’ and not a someone – allow for and even catalyze a collective failure to recognize violence against autistic people as a significant and pressing sociocultural problem?”