We might, for instance, consider autism as a kind of neurologically queer motioning. To be autistic is to be neuroqueer, and to be neuroqueer is to be idealizing, desiring, sidling.

autism and queerness are implicated in one another, are mutually sustaining—even if at times radically diverging—conceptions of what it means to demi-rhetorically move and defy. Both are conditions of and conditioned on countersocialities; both are modes of being-becoming characterized by a persistent failure to arrive.

First, I argue that, in its past and present clinical formations, autism is contextually situated within societal responses to and of gay panic. We can locate queerness in nineteenth-century fears about the feeble-minded and sexual deviance; we can locate queerness in the mainstreaming of ABA, which is used to eliminate “feminine sex-typed behavior