Concept
"Armchair" Internet Diagnoses and Autism As Rhetoric
- "Armchair" internet diagnoses occur when a character or person is not named as being explicitly autistic (this force can apply to other disabilities as well), but viewers assert that a character or person is autistic.
- While fictional characters are often largely subject to armchair diagnosis, the real rhetorical power comes when people invoke real, historical figures as autistic.
- While identifying individual historical figures as autistic is often a completely speculative endeavor, when lists of historical figures who have been tagged as autistic are compiled they have the power to shift how we view autism because for the most part, all the historical characters identified are white. Often these lists also have high proportions of people in the STEM fields.
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Updated 2023-06-18
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