The Media and Autism and Rhetoric

Autistic Community Discourses and Autism as Rhetoric

Cultural Forces and Autism as Rhetoric

- The media and autism as rhetoric
- Autistic community discourses and autism as rhetoric
- Cultural forces and autism as rhetoric 

University of Wisconsin - Madison

In this piece, Paul Heilker examines autism as a form of rhetoric and how the various forces, media portrays, autistic community understandings, and cultural forces, work to construct autism as an overwhelmingly white phenomenon in public discourses. 

Autism, Rhetoric, and Whiteness

Heilker, P. (2012). Autism, rhetoric, and Whiteness. Disability Studies Quarterly, 32(4). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v32i4.1756 

- Aristotle's definition of rhetoric
- Autism as Aristotle's rhetoric
- Dilip Gaonkar's definition of rhetoric
- Autism as Gaonkar's rhetoric
- What these rhetorical constructions have in common
- Effects of autism as rhetoric

Autism As Rhetoric

Forces That Shape Autism As Rhetoric

- How Rhetoric and Social Construction Create "Truth"


The Implications of Autism as Rhetoric and Whiteness

In the following nodes, I use identity first language to refer to autistic individuals. I chose to use this language because it is the language I use as an autistic individual, it is the language used in the article, and it is the language preferred by a majority of autistic individuals in the United States (where the research and researcher for this article is based). 

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