I have spent much of my life practicing nonautism, or what my autistic comrades call allism. The stuff of my real self is the stuff of neither reality nor selfhood, because autism supposedly impedes my capacity for knowledge of both self and other.

I am interested in discerning how autistic rhetors are denied rhetoricity. But I am more interested in how this denial is rhetorically accomplished, as well as how autistic people expertly respond to such denials.