Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing

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Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hjorth, E., & Nygren, A. (2023). Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing. Medical Humanities, 49(3), 407-415. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012384

Publication date: 11 Jan 2023 Added to AutiHub: 4 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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3
Publication authors identified as autistic
2 / 3 (66.7%)
  1. Hannah Bertilsdotter Rosqvist *
  2. Elisabeth Hjorth
  3. Anna Nygren *

Abstract

The article investigates letter writing as a way to explore neurodiverse collectives, neuromixed communication and neurodiverse research collaboration. From the perspective of neurodiversity studies and translation practice/studies, the article negotiates new perspectives of inherited images of neurological selves and others, such as the non-autistic as the ‘typical’ in contrast to the ‘atypical’ autistic person. Experimenting with autistic time, allowing different sensory modalities and different approaches to time, detail and narrative, the article challenges deficit approaches to autism. Through a letter writing practice the possibilities and challenges of subjectivity, cultural translation and writing as method are examined. The article suggests that ‘counter narratives’ are important sources of knowledge as they reclaim personhood from dehumanising perspectives. By performing neuromixed conversation and dialogue with theoretical concepts, and pen paling as play as a fruitful form for responsible cross-neurotype translation, the article illuminates challenges and opportunities in neurodiverse collective writing.

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48
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33
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14
14 / 48 (29.2%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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13 / 48 (27.1%)
References with detected author names
35 / 48 (72.9%)
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13
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13
Without a stable identifier
14
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75
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75
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0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
14
34 / 75 (45.3%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 41 / 75 (54.7%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
19 / 75 (25.3%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 19 / 34 (55.9%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 11 / 61 (18.0%).
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