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Williams, A. (2018). Autonomously Autistic. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(2), 60-82. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v7i2.423

Publication date: 5 Jul 2018 Added to AutiHub: 9 Aug 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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  1. Anna Williams *

Abstract

The locus of pathology exists not in the autistic person, but in the interaction between a hostile environment and the subjugated autistic. It is essential for parents, practitioners, educators, and autistic people themselves to ask the crucial question— Is the autistic a machine, or an organism? Are we active agents in our own embodied experience, or are we a locus of behavior? It is not with defiance, but autonomy, that I declare as an autistic person— I am not a manifestation of stimuli and response. I am agential. I am Autonomously Autistic.

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