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an excerpt from page 487 of a paper entitled “Autism & Rhetoric” by Paul Heilker & M. Remi Yergeau: “we contend that human neurology itself, autistic or other, is likewise a profoundly rhetorical phenomenon. We contend that autism itself is a rhetoric, a way of being in the world through language, a rhetoric we may not have encounter or recognized frequently in the past nor value highly in academic contexts, but a rhetoric nonetheless. If autism is a rhetoric, then we are beholden to respond to i with cultural sensitivity, ethical care, and pedagogical complexity. And if autism a rhetoric and autistics are minority rhetors, English faculty already possess all the tools and experience they will need to do exactly that.” an excerpt from page 496 of a paper entitled “Autism & Rhetoric” by Paul Heilker & M. Remi Yergeau: “Conceiving of autism as a rhetoric, as a way of being in the world through language, allows us to reconstrue what we have historically seen as language deficits as, instead, language differences. Students on the autism spectrum, like all students, have their own culturally and individually distinctive topoi, tropes, dialects, and so on, and their rhetorics thus constitute both cultural and individual representations of their selfhood. If we can come to see our autistic students through the lens of rhetoric more than through a stock and overdetermined lens of autism, we might come to better appreciate what they do have to offer instead of fixating on what they do not. Indeed, if we give them the opportunity, we might get a chance to learn how they see themselves.”
December 20, 2024 at 4:37 AM