Re Thinking Autism Diagnosis Identity and Equality

Impressive! This book inaugurates both Critical Autism Studies and a crucial unsettling of all previous accounts of the meaning of autism. In chapters that unpack the label, its diagnosis and use, autism treatments, politics, identities, Re-Thinking Autism vibrantly demonstrates that it is time to begin our lives with autism as an integral part of human life rather than treating it as an unnatural condition. This book is an antidote to the normative violence that regularly surrounds lives lived with the label of autism, inviting all people to affirm a more complex version of humanity. — Tanya Titchkosky, Professor, OISE, University of Toronto and author of ‘The Question of Access’, ‘Reading and Writing Disability Differently’ and ‘Disability, Self and Society’