Hello Larry and all,
I have ordered this book today and would like to say that knowing the author's work and the perspective from which he writes, I expect that this book aims, like many other texts authored by humantities academics not to speak for others but to open up access for inclusion to enable to us to listen and hear other's voices and persepectives.
I am an non autistic academic who writes on autistic autobiography not to speak for others but to draw attention to the fact that others are speaking and that we need to pay attention to that. I also write to understand what may prevent some people being heard and how we can work to mitigate that within academia.
At the end of the day if humanitites academics want to discuss disability and disabiling discourses and representations in our classes and invite participation from advocate groups and diabled people - we have to write books on it.
It's how we tackle the system from the inside. It is our form of resistance :)
Best wishes,
Irene.
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Subject: Re: new book - Representing Autism
I have principles that come first, it is not about whether the book is good or even accurate but
about whether it should be written by who it has written by because of the wider social implications
of our disempowerment the suppression of our voices the continuation of the notion that we need
others to explain our situation.
That I call cultural oppression and the creation of our disability and that such a book is not a
help it is almost an act of war.
Larry
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> Larry...with all due respect, how about reading the book
> before making the judgement? Or at least doing enough
> research to find out what the authors' personal experience is.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark
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