Reclaiming Identity: The Potential of Autistic (Self-) representation in Life Writing and Literary Fiction for New Forms of Subjectivity. KU Leuven
Autism in Plural focuses on the contemporary proliferation and popularity of published self-narratives by people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. These self-narratives, also called autie-biographies or autie-narratives, are all concerned with the question: what does autism mean for me as a subject? The research therefore focuses on the way in which people deal with the label of autism spectrum disorders, rather than on the ...