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Circle Wars: Reshaping the Typical Autism Essay
Melanie Yergeau
Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 30, No 1 (2010)
Abstract : This piece investigates "typical autism essays" and their rhetorical commonplaces, their largely neurotypical discourse conventions. In the field of rhetoric and composition, circular metaphors in discourse community theory resemble popular representations of autism as a low-functioning/high-functioning binary. Each field-specific conversation attempts to define groups of people (student writers, autistics) as though there are hard and fast boundaries to one's identity. I posit that typical autism essays obscure issues of power as well as their neurotypically-defined genre conventions, effectively denying autistic self-advocates a place in the conversations that concern them.
http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1063/1222
“Aspie Society” by Kamaria Copeland
Often misunderstood we are
Often underestimated we are
We were born this way
We will die this way
The ones meant to be in our lives....will be my friend
And the ones that were not meant to share our glorious....and victorious world will vanish
Just like dust
We are special....We are irreplaceable
We are the ones you my not know...Are among you
We can go beyond anyone's wildest imagination
Even the fears themselves must fear us
We can achieve our dreams
We are smarter than people give us credit for
We are stronger then people will ever admit we are
We Are the “Aspies”
We are family
A special society
We hurt
We cry
We bleed
Just like everyone else
The only difference is somehow
We rise above our pain
Being shunned from birth families and communities
No more
Graceful like an angel
Fearless like a biker
Is how I feel today my friend
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