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The United States—which as of 2011 had the highest first-day infant death rate in the industrialized world124—might succumb to autism, becoming a cautionary example for other countries. The autism rate here has doubled an average of every five years since 1970. At this rate, the majority of American boys will be autistic by 2036, and by around 2045... See more
Tao Lin • The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
Autism has long functioned as a limit case in cognitive studies, purportedly representing the bounds of the human.
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
Such brain-localized fascination attends autism because autism purportedly represents the edges of sociality.
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
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Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
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Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
Autism’s stories are radically transdisciplinary, and its causation theories ford genetics, neurology, cognition, psychology, and linguistics. It is autism’s supposed pervasiveness that leads Victoria Brunsdon and Francesca Happé to posit autism as a fractioned and fractionable disorder, as a disorder whose symptomatological features arise from myr
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