Should I Share This? Writing From the Edge of a Complex Mind
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Should I Share This? Writing From the Edge of a Complex Mind
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.
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
On one hand, I know the self is a made-up concept of the mind, that identity should be kept small, and that trying to pin myself down usually does more harm than good. On the other hand, when I sit down to write, I feel like every sentence disproves this