[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-599021-105":59,"doc-detail-599021-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","storying-autism-composition-forum-39-summer-2018","Storying Autism - Composition Forum 39 - Summer 2018","","“Storying Autism” reviews three recent monographs—Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender, Anne McGuire’s War on Autism, and Melanie Yergeau’s Authoring Autism—each centering autism as disability. The essay connects themes of rhetorical play, textual narrative, and storying within contemporary autism discourse, showing how cultural and institutional autism narratives sustain social hierarchies that marginalize autistic lives. It surveys autism’s history, examines normalized rhetorical and physical violence, and concludes by analyzing the rhetors shaping a shifting discursive field.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/storying-autism-composition-forum-39-summer-2018/599021/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/storying-autism-composition-forum-39-summer-2018/599021.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"jay","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-21","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":8},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"Which three monographs are reviewed in “Storying Autism”?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The essay reviews Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender, Anne McGuire’s War on Autism, and Melanie Yergeau’s Authoring Autism.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What core themes does the author connect across the three books?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The author ties together rhetorical play, textual narrative, and storying in contemporary autism discourse.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"How does the essay position the role of cultural and institutional narratives about autism?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It argues these narratives support social hierarchies that sideline autistic lives in scholarship and beyond, including forms of normalized rhetorical and physical violence.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},599021,1792611666,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":8,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":34,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":144},3985747858866,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_a8503ba1806abce46bf441b54a3ca4cd","Current Issue  From the Editors  Weblog  Editorial Board  Editorial Policy  Submissions Archives  Accessibility  Search  \nComposition Forum 39, Summer 2018  \nStorying Autism  \nHeather Thomas  \nAbstract: In this essay, I review three recent monographs: Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender, Anne McGuire’s War on Autism, and Melanie Yergeau’s Authoring Autism. Each of these texts centers disability—autism in particular—and in doing so, they highlight the insidious ways in which our cultural, institutional, and personal autism narratives support extant social hierarchies that sideline autistic lives in scholarship and beyond. Central to these three books are issues of rhetorical play, textual narrative, and storying in contemporary autism discourse, so in this essay I aim to tie together these fundamental themes, placing them in conversation with one another. I begin the discussion with a brief overview of the history of autism before drawing from Yergeau, Jack, and McGuire’s texts to explore the lay of the discursive field of autism and forms of rhetorical (and physical) violence that are normalized in autism discourse. Finally, before concluding, I explore what the authors of these texts explicate about the rhetors who take part in a shifting discursive field.  \nJack, Jordynn. Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks. U of Illinois P, 2014. 306 pp. McGuire, Anne. War on Autism: On the Cultural Logics of Normative Violence. U of Michigan P, 2016. 264 pp. Yergeau, Melanie. Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Duke UP, 2017. 302 pp.  \nIn this essay, I review three recent monographs: Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender, Anne McGuire’s War on Autism, and Melanie Yergeau’s Authoring Autism. Each of these texts centers disability—autism in particular—and in doing so, they highlight the insidious ways in which our cultural, institutional, and personal autism narratives support extant social hierarchies that sideline autistic lives in scholarship and beyond. Central to these three books are issues of rhetorical play, textual narrative, and storying in contemporary autism discourse, so in this essay I aim to tie together these fundamental themes, placing them in conversation with one another. I begin the discussion with a brief overview of the history of autism before drawing from Yergeau, Jack, and McGuire’s texts to explore the lay of the discursive field of autism and forms of rhetorical (and physical) violence that are normalized in autism discourse. Finally, before concluding, I explore what the authors of these texts explicate about the rhetors who take part in a shifting discursive field.  \nDiscovering and Delivering Autism  \nAutism, also known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is officially classified as a neurodevelopmental disability that is defined, per the American Psychiatric Association (APA), as a condition in which neurological functioning is impaired. This so-called impairment, suggests the APA, contributes to a range of social and communication difficulties that expresses in ways that are unique to the autistic person but also recognizable to certified experts according to the standards established in the diagnostic manual (“What”) . Autism, therefore, is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as a disorder in which there are “problems with thinking, feeling, language and the ability to relate to others”(APA “What”) . This understanding undergirds conceptualizations of autism as lack and sponsors notions of autism’s “unknowable, unnarratable” nature (Yergeau 7) .  \nConceiving of autism as lack is foundational to how it has been defined as a biomedical classification. In 1943, the Austrian-American psychiatrist Leo Kanner published his seminal study “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact.”Interestingly, separate but concurrent investigations were conducted by Hans Asperger, an Austrian pediatrician,  \nwho described in a 1944 article four boys he","cbCaigYz3m0hv6z9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigYz3m0hv6z9","pdf",91277,"English","# Storying Autism\n## Discovering and Delivering Autism","[{\"question\":\"Which three monographs are reviewed in “Storying Autism”?\",\"answer\":\"The essay reviews Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender, Anne McGuire’s War on Autism, and Melanie Yergeau’s Authoring Autism.\"},{\"question\":\"What core themes does the author connect across the three books?\",\"answer\":\"The author ties together rhetorical play, textual narrative, and storying in contemporary autism discourse.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay position the role of cultural and institutional narratives about autism?\",\"answer\":\"It argues these narratives support social hierarchies that sideline autistic lives in scholarship and beyond, including forms of normalized rhetorical and physical violence.\"}]","Storying Autism - Composition Forum 39 - Summer 2018 | PDF",1792088020,11]