Temple Grandin and the Mediation of Autism Debates at the Interface between Life Writing and the Lif...

Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Framing Autism -- 2.1 Autism as a Narrative Condition -- 2.2 The Medical Model of Autism -- 2.3 The Social Model of Autism -- 3 (Re)Writing Autism -- 3.1 The Emergence of ,Autie'-Biographies -- 3.2 Phenomenology and Autobiographical Narration -- 3.3 Temple Grandin and the Inconceivability of Autistic Life Writing -- 3.3.1 "But You Can't be Autistic": On Diagnosis and Scientific Authenticators -- 3.3.2 Medical Orientalism -- 3.3.3 Autistic Symptomatology and Theory of Mind -- 3.3.4 Autism "Recovery" and Collaborative Authorship -- 3.4 "Autistic" Communication, Sensory Issues, and Other Misunderstandings -- 3.5 A Plea for Subjectivity and Anecdotal Evidence -- 4 Mediating Autism -- 4.1 Normal...or Pathological? -- 4.2 Temple Grandin as ,Diplomautist' -- 4.3 Mediating Notions of Cure -- 4.4 On Autistic Capabilities and Narrative Representativity -- 4.5 Blurring the Lines -- 4.6 Moving from Offline to Online Spaces: Imagining a Future of Autism and Autistic Life Writing -- 4.7 The Inclusion of Researchers with Autism -- 5 Doing the "Interdisciplinary Dance" -- 5.1 Autism and the Neurosciences -- 5.2 Neurologizing Difference: Brain (Images) and Identity -- 5.3 The Trouble with Scientific Objectivity -- 5.4 Why the Life Sciences and Humanities Have to Come Together -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Backcover.