And then I saw this:
What's postmodern about Autistic culture? A feeling that can exist only in these times
At the Society for Disability Studies last weekend, I had a very important conversation in one of my sessions that was centered primarily on what is intersectional about autistic culture.
http://thatautisticthatnewtownforgot.blogspot.com/2013/07/whats-postmodern-about-autistic-culture.html
This is completely different from where I was going, which is the impossibility of understanding social behavior rationally without understanding the system of imbalanced power networks that underlie it. Maybe I can excuse that by saying that I'm coming from a clinical perspective: how to convince Johnny's parents that they have to understand intersectionality in order to understand their son. But this is much sweeter: an inquiry into why we produce intersectional postmodernism by the conditions of our being. A feast of pride, for those of us carping about being on the right side of history.
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