I am here primarily focused on the ways in which intentionality, in its voluntaried valences, is storied onto or against autism. My frame of reference is limited and is particularly neuroqueer, evoking a simultaneous engagement with how clinicians pejoratively queer the autistic and how autistics cunningly queer the clinical.

pathology paradigm, in which autism is framed as a form of medical pathology—a “disorder” or “condition”—and the fact that this pathology paradigm consistently results in autistic people being stigmatized, dehumanized, abused, harmed, and traumatized by professionals and often by their own families.