Whereas autism is represented as compulsions toward the self (autos), allism is fashioned as a turning-toward the other (allos).

These, as autistic blogger Zoe Gross warns, are killing words.

becomes autism when multiple enminded phenomena collide.

Galen, an ancient Greek physician, described kakoethos in terms of chronicity and malignancy. In

In linguistics, intention is typically configured around the social dimensions (or, pragmatics) of language, and is understood as invoking multiple cognitive phenomena.

Of course, I don’t for a moment believe that autistic people are rhetorically degraded,

“Madness,” Burke warns us, “is but meaning carried to the extreme.”178 This is locational language: autistics are linearly extreme, developmentally extreme, statistically extreme. But these are not the entelechies of the neuroqueer. Following Latour, “We should imagine filamentlike entelechies, spun out and interwoven with one another … which are

Involuntarity is the reductionist state of our being. Autistics fake rather than make rhetoric.

What autism presents, then, is an opportunity for readers to diagnose the very form of this book, as though this book were an invitation for symptomatological scrutiny.36