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An introduction to five chapters
An introduction to autism, interpellation and identity
Autism diagnostic criteria: Social communication and interaction
Autism diagnostic criteria: Restricted and repetitive patterns
1 ‘Outsider Science’ and literary exclusion: A reply to denials of autistic imagination
Childhood autism and the psychiatric imagination
Computer coding and/as literature: The naming of autism in Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Autism and literary exclusion
Limitations and inaccuracies in Simon Baron-Cohen’s ‘Minds Wired for Science’ narrative
Bias in the Adult Autism-Spectrum Quotient test (2001): History and legacy
Re-membering autistic imagination: Asperger, Wing and ‘Harro L.’
Silberman’s Neurotribes: Science, science fiction and autism
Word persons of the autistic world unite: Critical responses to Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Conclusion: The sySTEMizing focus and its implications for autistic diversity
2 Metaphors and mirrors: The otherness of adult autism
Picking up the mirror: Enfreaking normalcy
The infantilizing of adult autism in diagnostic observations
Autism and disorder: Foucault, confinement and cultural fear
The screen as mirror: Ricky Gervais’s The Office (UK) and the neurotypical gaze
Post-Curious: Adult autism as cultural spectacle in Big Bang Theory and The Accountant
Conjecturing otherness: Autism, metaphor and metonymy
Lost in the mirror metaphor: Challenging the myth of autistic narcissism
The broken metaphor: ‘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 Line scan at Fifteen’
Normativity through the looking-glass: Joanne Limburg’s The Autistic Alice (2017)
Otherness, autism and acceptance
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
Bron/Broen: Neurodiversity, The Bridge and autistic‘ adherence to rules’
Kay Mellor’s The Syndicate (2015): Class, criminality, race and adult autism
Clare Morrall’s The Language of Others: Autism, womanhood and intersectionality
Family and phenotype: Reading autism in Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings (2013)
Conclusion: Cultural disability
5 Performing the names of autism
Anger, faith and the realization of Asperger syndrome: Les Murray’s ‘The Tune on Your Mind’ (2006)
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 (1910)
Autistic criticism 2: Neurodiverse meeting points in ‘Mad World’
Naming Adult Autism
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