Autobiography on the Spectrum: Disrupting the Autism Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780807761458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019

Beth A. Myers; Marilyn Cochran-Smith; Susan L. Lytle

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments vii
• Preface ix
• 1. “I swam too far in the sea and drowned”: A Different View of Autism 1
• The Prevailing Deficit Model of Autism 2
• An Alternate View: Critical Disability Theory 4
• Autobiography and Autism 5
• Creating a Space for Inquiry 8
• 2. “The walls of my room”: Representations of Home and Family 16
• Opening Up: An Introduction to Billy 17
• Making Connections 22
• Exploring Relationships 25
• Expectations: The Way Things Are Supposed to Be 28
• Taking Risks: Telling Versus Not Telling 31
• Locating Self 36
• Claiming Ownership 39
• 3. “I hope school starts to calm down so I can too”: Enduring, Resisting, and Reframing School Experiences 41
• Imaging and Imagining: Looking Out at Others Looking In 43
• Charlie: Enduring Oppression 45
• Elizabeth: Resisting Oppression 50
• Cody: Reframing Oppression 55
• Making Space for Inquiry 60
• 4. “Nobody’s normal in a way”: Writing Ourselves into the Story of Autism 62
• (De)Constructing Autism 62
• Interrogating “Normal” 66
• Exploring the Potential of Narrative Works 68
• Disrupting the Autism Narrative 69
• Managing a Stigmatized Identity 70
• Autobiography as a Counternarrative 72
• 5. “I can do more than people think I can do”: On Discovering What We Seek 75
• Autobiographical Lives 76
• Creating for Agency 77
• Autobiography as a Counter-Practice 78
• Practitioner Inquiry: Making Meaning from Our Work 79
• How We Move Forward 81
• Multimodality and Access 88
• Considering My Own Place 90
• Notes 93
• References 95
• Index 101
• About the Author 107