Occupying Autism: Rhetoric, Involuntarity, and the Meaning of Autistic Lives

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Yergeau, M. (2015). Occupying Autism: Rhetoric, Involuntarity, and the Meaning of Autistic Lives. In Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability (pp. 83-95). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9984-3_6

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  1. Melanie Yergeau *

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