Sharing Autism Through Metaphors. (Dis)ability, Difference and Diversity in Temple Grandin’s Portrayals of Autism.

Authors

  • Marion Schmidt Science and Technology Studies University College Freiburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.286

Keywords:

Autism, metaphor, disability narrative, identity politics, neurodiversity

Abstract

Autistic people, professionals claim, lack the socio-emotional awareness to employ metaphors. Yet public, medical and neuroscientific discourse about autism is full of metaphors, including those used by autistic people themselves. Analyzing the autobiographic writings of Temple Grandin – livestock scientist and autism spokeswoman – I treat her metaphors as shared sociocultural resource negotiating the identities of autistic people within a larger context of changing American disability narratives and identity politics.

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2018-02-03

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Schmidt, Marion. “Sharing Autism Through Metaphors. (Dis)ability, Difference and Diversity in Temple Grandin’s Portrayals of Autism”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, Feb. 2018, doi:10.5283/copas.286.

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2017): Dis-eased: Critical Approaches to Disability and Illness in American Studies

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