
Illness as Metaphor

a história contada sobre a doença altera a vida das pessoas, às vezes de maneira imprevisível, e influencia acentuadamente o modo como se percebem — e como desejam ser tratadas.
Rachel Aviv • Estranhos a nós mesmos: Histórias de mentes instáveis (Portuguese Edition)
perhaps because illness requires a new language—“more primitive, more sensual, more obscene.”
Virginia Woolf • On Being Ill: with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
the argument that autism is a kind of living death—and thereby worse than death (because it is symbolic death, a death in which organs and body meat keep churning while the external world remains beyond grasp)—fuels homicidal logics.